Awesome movies - some well-known, others less so -from silent classics to new releases shown every Friday at 2:30 in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room at Central. We have something for everyone!
1975 / PG / 1 hour 31 minutes
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
1984 / R / 1 hour 48 minutes
A low-budget satirical, science fiction comedy - with a legacy as a cult classic - this is the story of a mute alien with the appearance of a black human who is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem. Written and directed by John Sayles.
Everybody loves Rudy, a college freshman who’s obsessed with playing football for Notre Dame. A couple of obstacles, though. He doesn’t have the grades for Notre Dame and he’s too small to play college ball...
In 1935 these two guys started work as animators at Disney just in time to work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. That isn’t even the most intriguing thing about them. See for yourself.
Washington Post reporters (Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman) investigate the Watergate break-in and its fallout. Dangerous players trying to contain damage to the president drag the film into political thriller territory. Redford bought the movie rights before Woodward and Bernstein’s book was finished, and played a pivotal role in the film’s product.
Documentarian Erroll Morris’s most controversial and influential film concerns the killing of a Dallas police officer and the conviction of someone unlikely to have committed the crime. Famously, the filmmaker uses reconstructions to tell the story, a technique criticized by some documentarians. This is intriguing cinema.
How bad could a comedy with Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Isabella Rossellini be? It is described as a satirical, surrealistic black comedy fantasy film. Laughs and surprises for everyone.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Movies, Music & Performance |
