Starting Sunday, February 12th, 2012 (today)
February 2012
Sunday, February 12th (Today)
- Public Talk and Campus Premiere of Award-Winning New Documentary Film SIGNING ON
- Barbara Allen, Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences and director of Signing On: Stories of Deaf Breast Cancer Survivors, Their Families and the Deaf Community, will speak about the film production process and work in the Deaf community prior to the screening. There will be a Q and A with Professor Allen, cast and crew following the screening. Event sponsored by Cinema and Media Studies. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.
- 2:00 pm, Weitz Cinema -- WCC 161
Wednesday, February 15th
- Public Film Screening of "City of God"
- Enjoy a screening of "City of God"; a 2002 film by Meirelles & Lund. This film is being shown as part of a Wednesday series of global cinema classics and will be introduced by Jay Beck, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies.
- 9:00 pm, Weitz Cinema -- WCC 161
Wednesday, February 22nd
- Public Film Screening of "Jurassic Park"
- Enjoy a screening of "Jurassic Park"; a 1993 film by Steven Spielberg. This film is being shown as part of a Wednesday series of global cinema classics and will be introduced by Jay Beck, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies.
- 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema -- WCC 161
Sunday, February 26th
- Living Electric Theater: Cinema Emerges in Northfield
- Carol Donelan, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Carleton College, will offer a narrated tour through re-created episodes in Northfield’s early moviegoing history in the cinema at the Weitz Center for Creativity on Sunday, February 26 at 2:00pm. In addition to the lecture, early short films and a stellar cast of local musicians and performers will enliven the show. Come experience the movies as they once were. The event is co-sponsored by Carleton’s Humanities Center and Cinema & Media Studies Department, the Northfield Historical Society, the Northfield News and KYMN Radio. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
- 2:00 pm, WCC 161 - Weitz Cinema
Wednesday, February 29th
- Public Film Screening of "Lone Star"
- Enjoy a screening of "Lone Star"; a 1996 film by John Sayles. This film is being shown as part of a Wednesday series of global cinema classics and will be introduced by Jay Beck, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies.
- 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema -- WCC 161
March 2012
Wednesday, March 7th
- Public Film Screening of "Monsoon Wedding"
- Enjoy a screening of "Monsoon Wedding"; a 2001 film by Mira Nair. This film is being shown as part of a Wednesday series of global cinema classics and will be introduced by Jay Beck, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies.
- 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema -- WCC 161
