Experimental Film Artist Roger Beebe preforming at UCF!

 Experimental Film Special Event
Hosted by UCF Film/Sunspot Cinema

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Please share with students, family, friends and colleagues.....


Renowned experimental filmmaker ROGER BEEBE, whose films have shown around the globe, is presenting his program of multi-projector films as apart of a 6-week US tour.  Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors--running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously.

WHEN:  Friday, October 30, 7:00 PM

WHERE:  UCF Main Campus - Communications Building, Room 181-A - The Film Sound Stage (#75 on the attached map)

PARKING:  Free in Garage H (#78 on the attached map)

For more information, please join the Facebook group "Sunspot Cinema"
and visit
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/films/fall09tour.pdf

Halloween!!!!!!!

Hey everyone!

Check out a number of cool events Enzian is hosting this spooky season. UCF student discounts are available on most events at Enzian and if you haven't been to the new Eden Bar you have to check it out!

Toronto International Film Festival Talk-Back and Horror Film Discussion

Great opportunity for undergrads and MFAs!

The Toronto International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious

international film festivals in the world. For ten days, film lovers,

filmmakers, industry professionals and media watch the best in new

cinema from established masters and new talent.  This September, Chris

Blanc, GM for Enzian and the Florida Film Festival spent a week at TiFF

navigating his way through over 30 films, its forums, panels, and

parties on very little sleep.  Chris will be present before Enzian's

Movie Club discussion on Horror Movies to discuss his experience at TiFF

2009.  Chris will also take questions and give advice to film students

and indie filmmakers interested in learning more about submitting to and

exhibiting at film festivals.

 

Thursday, October 29 at 6:30

Eden Bar at Enzian Theater

For more information, visit Enzian.org

 

Experience NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD on 16mm and FREE Horror Classics

Guys, this one is a classic! Definitely check it out if you've never seen this movie. 

Halloween weekend, Enzian will screen a compilation of classic horror

films that defined the genre, outdoors at Eden Bar for FREE.  Then,

don't miss two midnight 16mm screenings of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD on

the big screen.

 

Outdoor Screening Schedule:

FRI Oct. 30 -     THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) - 7PM

                        THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (1973) - 8:30PM

                        HOSUE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) - 10PM

SAT Oct. 31 -    NOSFERATU (1922) - 7PM

                        CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) - 8:30PM

                        DRACULA (1931) - 10PM

 

For more information or to purchase tickets to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD,

visit Enzian.org.

Coen Brother's A SERIOUS MAN Opens Friday Exclusively at Enzian

Coen Brother's A SERIOUS MAN Opens Friday Exclusively at Enzian

Guys, check this film out. It's supposed to be great!

The latest from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan

Coen, A Serious Man opens Enzian exclusively this Friday, October 23.

Imaginatively exploring questions of faith, familial responsibility,

delinquent behavior, dental phenomena, academia, mortality, and Judaism

- and intersections thereof - A SERIOUS MAN is the story of an ordinary

man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on

the radio and F-Troop is on TV.

Take advantage of your UCF student discount on tickets.

To view the trailer or to purchase tickets, visit Enzian.org

.

Great American Directors Marathon!

The UCF Film Club and

 Cinemateque present the first

 semi-annual Great

 American Directors Marathon, a

 weekend-long retrospective of

 the classic films of

 legendary filmmakers. 

 The purpose of the event

 is to introduce

 students to great films and

 filmmakers that have

 influenced and inspired

 contemporary filmmakers

 all over the

 world, and in doing so inform and inspire their own work as filmmakers. The inaugural marathon

 will focus on the

 films of extraordinary master

 storyteller and craftsman William

 Wyler, the most Academy

 Award-honored director in history, whose monumental films covered a variety of genres and have endured as film classics to this day.

The event will take place Friday/Saturday/Sunday -- October 23/24/25 -- in Comm 145. Come for as many films as you want.  Learn and enjoy. There will be food, camaraderie and a series of great movies.  Following is a schedule and brief description of each film in the marathon:

FRIDAY 10/23

7:00 PM  --  DIRECTED BY WILLIAM WYLER  -- A. Scott Berg and Aviva Slesin's acclaimed one-hour documentary introducing the man and his films, including interviews with those who worked with him

8:00 PM  --  THE BIG COUNTRY  (1958, 167 minutes)  (Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Burl Ives)  One of the all-time great westerns, this epic Academy Award-winning saga of power and greed on the frontier is a film classic.

The film will be

 introduced by UCF Film

 Chair Steve

 Schlow

SATURDAY 

 10/24

12:00 NOON 

 --  THE HEIRESS  (1949, 116 minutes)  (Montgomery Clift, Olivia DeHavilland, Ralph Richardson)  Based on the great Henry James novel Washington Square, this powerful drama of twisted love was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director, and won 4.

2:30 PM  --  ROMAN HOLIDAY  (1953, 118 minutes)  (Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn)  Audrey Hepburn made her film debut and won an Oscar in this charming, beloved romantic comedy classic nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

5:00 PM  --  THE COLLECTOR  (1965, 119 minutes)  (Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar) This chilling, electrifying thriller about obsessive love was nominated for 3 Academy Awards, including Best Actress and Best Director.

7:00 PM  --  complimentary food for those attending both the preceding and following

 films

8:00 PM  --  THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946, 168 minutes)  (Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews)  Winner of 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, this epic American saga of soldiers returning home from WW2 and adjusting to civilian life while haunted by their war experiences is a landmark film and an unforgettable motion picture masterpiece.

SUNDAY  10/25

2:00 PM  --  BEN-HUR  (1959, 212 minutes)  (Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith)  One of the great epic films of all time, this classic spectacle of ancient Rome, sea battles and chariot races won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

6:00 PM  --  THE LETTER  (1940, 95 minutes)  (Bette Davis) This spellbinding film noir mystery about sex, murder and blackmail stars Bette Davis in one of her greatest roles and was

 nominated for 7

 Academy Awards,

 including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best

 Director.

7:30 PM  --  complimentary food for those attending both the preceding and following films

8:30 PM   --  FUNNY GIRL  (1968, 155 minutes)  (Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif) Barbra Streisand made her legendary film debut and won an Oscar in Wyler's great musical comedy romance.  Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, this gloriously entertaining masterwork is a triumphant end to Wyler's career and our first marathon

Student Cinematheque Screening!

Wong Kar-wai Trilogy 

OCT 10

This Saturday, October 10th, The Student Cinematheque will hold our first weekend event of the year: a screening of Wong Kar Wai's Trilogy which includes Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, and 2046. Seen together, these films ambitiously map the emotional terrain of Hong Kong in the past, present and future with love, deception, desire, politics and decorum. 

The event will start at 3:00pm in Communications Building 145. 

 A meal will be provided for a small fee.

UCF MFA Grad Screening

KEITH MORRIS' GUTTER KING to SCREEN   October 22 at the PLAZA CINEMA

Thursday night, OCTOBER 22ND, 7:30pm and 9:30pm the PLAZA CINEMA downtown is

rolling out the red carpet for a huge bash and 2 back-to-back screenings of

GUTTER KING (and Driving the Dead)! One night only-- in the beautiful Theater 7.

Tickets are $10 pre-sold online at gutterking.tv  beginning Friday, Oct 9, at 6 pm when they go on sale.

Let's support Keith and the culmination of his graduate work!