The Film Club is a co-curricular opportunity for students to supplement their standard education with the medium of film.

A film has two distinct qualities: technique and theme. The most successful films have interdependence between these two elements. After each viewing, club members discuss these issues. This is an important step for many reasons; sharing our reactions often clarifies and validates personal thoughts’ working together can enable us to reach a higher level of understanding about what we saw, and it creates a community between us.

Our selection of films is focused on finding important independent, foreign and historic films. We want our members to experience an array of visual language [technique and method] as well as become exposed to stories which can inform us on life in this world. A Film Club member has an advantage in that they have entertained a variety of perspective; they are on their way to gaining some global viewpoints.

Upcoming Films: 

March 19: L'avventura Michelangelo Antoninni, 1960, Italy/France, 141 min., unrated A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean. When they are about to leave the island, they find Anna, the main character up to this point, has gone missing. Her friends try without success to find her. When they get back to land, they continue the search with no success. Two friends proceed to go on with their lives and all but forget about the missing Anna.
March 26: Treasure of Sierra Madre John Huston, 1948, USA, 126 min., unrated Two drifters, down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
May 7: El Norte Gregory Nava, 1983, USA/UK, 141 min., R rating Mayan Indian peasants, tired of being thought of as nothing more than "brazos fuertes" ("strong arms", i.e., manual laborers) and organizing in an effort to improve their lot in life, are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, a brother and sister, teenagers who just barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to the north.
May 21: Dial ‘M’ for Murder Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, USA, 105 min., PG rating In a classic Hitchcock thriller, Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair. He blackmails an old college associate to strangle her, but when things go wrong he sees a way to turn events to his advantage.