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Film Screenings

Friday, October 11, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Unrest

Dryden Theatre

Labor Film Series 2024 Unrest dramatizes young Pyotr Kropotkin’s 1872 visit to Saint-Imier, the center of Swiss watchmaking and site of the anti-authoritarian congress of anarchists—a visit he credits to his full turn to anarchism.

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Dryden Theatre

ImageOut of the Archive Outrageous costumes, gorgeous locations, and a stellar retro soundtrack are the backdrop for this bitingly humorous tale of two drag queens and a transsexual's road trip across the Australian outback in a school bus named Priscilla.

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Tin Pan Alley on 16mm

Dryden Theatre

Make Mine Musicals Twentieth Century-Fox mainstays Betty Grable and Alice Faye star in this film as performing sisters caught up with a pair of songwriters in the first decades of the century.

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Friday, October 18, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Union

Dryden Theatre

Labor Film Series 2024 On April 1, 2022 a group of ordinary workers made history when they did what everyone thought was impossible: they successfully won their election to become the very first unionized Amazon workplace in America.

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Lotna on 35mm

Dryden Theatre

Post-Stalinist Poland | Polish Film Festival Director Andrzej Wajda returns to the theater of World War II for this story of Poland’s struggle against the increasingly insurmountable German army.

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Thursday, October 24, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 25, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

Dryden Theatre

Labor Film Series 2024 Lloyd Bridges stars as Brad Adams, union president of Doubleday Plastics, who is told by the owner that half of the workforce must be replaced by machines or the factory closes. 

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Saturday, October 26, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Dryden Theatre

Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee | Halloween Spike Lee turned to his own fans on Kickstarter to finance this remake of Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess (1973).

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Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Knife in the Water on 35mm

Dryden Theatre

Post-Stalinist Poland | Polish Film Festival Roman Polanski’s first (and for forty years, only) feature shot in his native Poland, Knife in the Water is a psycho-sexual thriller that broke taboos and shocked audiences.

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Thursday, October 31, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Evil Dead II

Dryden Theatre

Halloween Part remake, part sequel, this cult classic introduced "groovy" to the horror lexicon and firmly established Bruce Campbell as an underground star.

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