CWRU Film Society

Important Details

Free parking is ONLY available in lot 44 (see our Location map) after 4:30pm on Friday. If you arrive earlier than 4:30pm, you will have to pay for parking in the Veale Parking Tower (lot 53) at the posted rates. If you park at a location other than Lot 44; we are not responsible for any parking tickets or loss of access to your vehicle. It is highly suggested that marathon attendees stick with the lot we suggest.

Early Arrivals

If you arrive before 6pm on Friday for the Marathon, there will be NO OFFICIAL SPACE for you to camp out. CWRU has not allocated any space to us for people who arrive early, citing the very small turnout of early arrivers in the past couple of years along with a general crunch for space on campus. We are currently in the process of evaluating alternatives, but if you intend to arrive early, please anticipate making your own arrangements.

Admission Information

Admission information is subject to correction. Please check back before finalizing your plans.

Pricing for this year's science fiction marathon is $30 per person. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 18 at 6pm in the lobby of Strosacker Auditorium. No one under 18 admitted without parental supervision.

If you are unable to stay for the entire marathon, you may purchase tickets for movies individually. If you surrender a state or college ID to us, we will allow you to pay $4 per movie you wish to stay for. You are free to stay for more movies than you initially pay for, however you will be charged the balance before return of your ID. You may also simply purchase a wristband for the remaining balance of the marathon upon your arrival if you do not wish to surrender an ID (maximum charge of $30.)

The increase in price corresponds to the increase in normal semesterly prices and is an attempt to maintain a level of sophistication that CWRU Film Society has come to know. We have also recently gained access to digital projection, a transfer we have been looking to make for a long time. We will continue to prefer print movies, but the addition of digital projection allows us access to a wider range of films that were not available before.

Rules

No alcohol. No glass bottles. No fire hazards. Bring deodorant. Bring a toothbrush. Don't forget your towel. Space for sleeping bags is available on a first-come first-served basis. No one under 18 admitted without parental supervision. All bags are subject to inspection before admittance.

NEW RULE FOR 2013: It is no longer possible to remove the classroom A/V equipment from the stage (stage left/house right side) for Marathon. Aside from losing precious mattress/sleeping bag real estate, we must prevail upon our audience to not fiddle with, place, store, or spill food & beverages on, fold, spindle, mutilate, or otherwise in any way disturb that equipment.

Movies and times subject to change.

8:00pm
John Carter (2012)
Rated PG-13 (132 min.) Director: Andrew Stanton
With Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe
Read more about it at the IMDB

Transplanted to Mars, a Civil War vet discovers a lush planet inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter a princess who is in desperate need of a savior.

10:30pm
Logan's Run (1976)
Rated PG (119 min.) Director: Michael Anderson
With Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan
Read more about it at the IMDB

It is 2274. Some type of holocaust has decimated the earth, and the survivors sealed themselves into a domed city near Washington, D.C. To maintain the population balance, the computers that run the city have decreed that all people must die at 30. This system is enforced by "sandmen" : black-clad police operatives who terminate (kill) "runners" (those who attempt to live beyond 30). Logan, a sandman, is sent on a mission to find "sanctuary," which is a code- word used by the master computer to describe what it believes is a place to which runners have been escaping. Logan begins to question the system he serves and after seeing for himself that there is life beyond the dome, he returns to destroy the computer.

12:45am
The Postman (1997) - Surprise I

3:50am
Westworld (1973)
Rated PG (88 min.) Director: Michael Crichton
With Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
Read more about it at the IMDB

A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

5:35am
Solaris (2002)
Rated R (99 min.) Director: Steven Soderbergh
With George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur
Read more about it at the IMDB

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

8:00am
Thunderbirds (2004)
Rated PG (95 min.) Director: Jonathan Frakes
With Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Ben Kingsley
Read more about it at the IMDB

When The Hood finds and invades International Rescue's secret base and traps most of the Tracy family, only young Alan Tracy and his friends can save the day.

9:50am
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Rated G (81 min.) Director: Jack Arnold
With Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake
Read more about it at the IMDB

A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert, and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange.

11:30am
The Land Before Time (1988) - Surprise II

1:00pm
Them! (1954)
No Rating (94 min.) Director: Gordon Douglas
With James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon
Read more about it at the IMDB

The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.

3:00pm
Hugo (2011)
Rated PG (126 min.) Director: Martin Scorsese
With Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Mortez, Christopher Lee
Read more about it at the IMDB

Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

5:35pm
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001) - Surprise III

7:50pm
Iron Sky (2012)
Rated R (93 min.) Director: Timo Vuorensola
With Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Gottz Otto
Read more about it at the IMDB

The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018.

9:40pm
Paranorman (2012)
Rated PG (92 min.) Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
With voices of Kodi Smitt-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Read more about it at the IMDB

A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.

11:30pm
Watchmen (2009)
Rated R (162 min.) Director: Zack Snyder
With Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino
Read more about it at the IMDB

In an alternate 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.