Film Studies

Monday, February 11 at 7:30 pm

The Lives of Others (2006)
Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media, Watson Forum

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's movie debut focuses on the horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany.

Monday, February 18 at 7:30 pm

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media, Watson Forum

Five years in the making, this documentary revolves around 62-year-old Okuzaki Kenzo, a survivor of the battlefields of New Guinea in World War II, who sets out to discover the truth behind the atrocities enacted upon Japanese soldiers by some of their own officers.

Monday, March 10 at 7:30 pm

The Last Picture Show (1971)
Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media, Watson Forum

In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane find themselves torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house.  Peter Bogdanovich’s directorial debut based on the novel by Larry McMurtry.

Monday, March 31 at 7:30 pm

OT: Our Town (2002)
Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media, Watson Forum

Dominguez High, in the infamous Compton, CA, has not produced a play in over twenty years. With no money and no stage, two teachers and twenty-four students attempt to produce Thornton Wilder's American Classic Our Town.

Monday, April 7 at 7:30 pm

Loving Glances (2003)
Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media, Watson Forum

A beautiful and bittersweet romantic comedy set in besieged Belgrade. The film tells the story of Labud, a young student set adrift on the tide of refugees created by the ethnic strife in the region, and Romana, a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the ethnic divide who meet and fall in love.