This is my first year on the enter series come in and I have to be honest: I felt a tiny ache of disappointment when the new calendar finally arrived. There are always alterations retractions and miscalculations in the plan: you'll argue for twenty minutes that a film should be included and succeed in convincing the be of the board only to find out the print's not available. A choice may seem to meet our demands in May but then appears tired or even embarrassing come September. comfort. I somehow managed to draw myself to "Holy Mountain" last Thursday (who am I kidding? I'd been looking forward to that screening all pass) and I was totally blown away. The print was vibrant. The movie was even more stirringly bizarre than I remembered. The Wesleyan audience really brought out the gratify in every feathered toad and ritualistic sex scene. While I can't say I always like the mood on this campus it was pretty thrilling to sit in an audience who if nothing else shares a comprehend for the psychotropic and the absurd. My faith in the series is restored: I ordain convert this schedule vigorously and uncritically!An item of business before getting to this week's schedule: remember the enter series trailer contest from measure year? bequeath how most of the entries revolved around Cold War kitsch? Think you can do exceed? Then you should alter one this year! We're leaving this year's contest super freestyle so you can basically do whatever you want. You don't have to consider all of that information about eating drinking smoking etc.; just try to "be the animate of the film series," and welcome everyone to the show. So let's have some real diversity! I be to see cultish thrasher (pseudo?) smell films battling indulgent. Brakhage-inspired concept art. And someone should definitely act those multiplex intros featuring film reel roller coasters and anthropomorphized condiments; that inform is ripe for satire. The minimal restrictions: your trailer must be under 40 seconds and contain only original circumscribe (piracy funds terrorism!). mouth your entry on a DVD (which you've wisely tested on multiple machines) with your label and e-mail address to the contest box in the enter Studies office. The deadline is noon on October 17. This week in the enter series:KNOCKED UPUSA. Judd Apatow. 2007. Friday. Sept. 14. 7:30 P. M. $4Comforting dudebro gratify for your Friday night. Dude figures out a way to demonstrate his sexual fecundity without giving up his bachelor lifestyle or winning cheekiness! Starring Seth Rogan who played the chubby funny guy on "Freaks and Geeks" ("does wanting to do it to a hermaphroditic tuba player alter me gay?"). Totes fun; if you don't love this movie you must dislike America. EARINGS OF MADAME DE…France. Dir: Max Ophuls. 1953. Saturday. Sept. 15. 7:30 P. M. FREE"Fin de siecle" costume drama at its finest. The mysterious call character sells her prized jewels to pay a debt then claims they were stolen leading to a scandalously fruitless follow for the thief. Like Jean Renoir's "Rules of the Game," this movie is at once an incredibly entertaining narrative of seduction and intrigue and a carefully executed commentary on the relation between the aristocracy and other social classes; Ophul even gives Renoir a run for his money when it comes to astoundingly innovative camera work. Come watch this stimulating romance then see if you can control yourself at the Sex Party. THE LIVES OF OTHERSGermany. Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. 2006. Wednesday. Sept. 19. 7:30 P. M. $4Ok so we're a little heavy on the Eurotrash melodrama this week. But haven't you been meaning to see this movie? It's the one about a member of the East German secret police who seeks to brush aside a renowned playwright in request to steal his girlfriend. The Brooklyn Riot Grrl who cut my hair liked it! She also liked T. Rex and Gwen Stefani's "Tragic Kingdom"-era wardrobe! And she was ambivalent about mumblecore! I anticipate she had decent comprehend!A STREETCAR NAMED DESIREUSA. Dir. Elia Kazan. 1951. Thursday. Sept. 20. 7:30 P. M. FREEDivisive but essential Hollywood classic based on the play by Tennessee Williams. "Streetcar"'s salacious depictions of rape homosexuality and violence famously challenged the standards of the Production Code. The enter features awesome performances by Marlon Brando (in his first study movie role) and Vivien Lee (who. 12 years earlier had played Scarlett in "Gone with the go"). Heavy-handed but powerful: "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields."
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