CWRU Film Society

ATTENTION SCI-FI MARATHON PATRONS! Free parking will be in lots 44 and 47 on campus. These are surface lots NOT the Veale parking garage. Lot 47 is the parking lot next to the defunct Greenhouse restaurant at the corner of Adelbert Rd. and Murray Hill Rd. Note that this lot is larger than it looks and extends past the restaurant. Lot 44 is the surface lot that is across the street from the Greenhouse and next to the train tracks.

Tickets go on sale Friday, January 18, at 6pm. Admission is $25. No one under 18 admitted without parental supervision.

Movies and times subject to change.

8:00pm
The Cell (2000)
Rated R (109 min.) Director: Tarsem Singh
With Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio

Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is a child therapist working on an experimental new technology that allows for direct access into someone else's mind. However, the benefits of the technology are still unproven. Meanwhile FBI Agent Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn) is hard at work tracking down a serial killer who encloses women in a small glass cell and drowns them. Novak is able to identify the killer as Carl Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio), but before he can be arrested, he goes into a coma. The only way to rescue his most recent victim is for Catherine to enter his mind using the experimental technology. However, Stargher's mind is so warped and frightening, there's no way to know what Deane will encounter inside of it.

10:30pm
The Terminal Man (1974)
Rated R (107 min.) Director: Mike Hodges
With George Segal, Joan Hackett, Jill Clayburgh

A computer scientist has an electrode implanted in his brain to control his violent impulses. But when something goes awry he goes on a killing spree in the streets of Los Angeles. From a novel by Jurassic Park author, Michael Crichton.

12 midnight
Surprise I

2:00am
Frankenstein (1931)
No Rating (71 min.) Director: James Whale
With Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clark

James Whale's trailblazing horror classic is loosely based on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys gothic novel and features Boris Karloff in the role that made him a star. Mad scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has an insane ambition to create life in his own image. Frankenstein and his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), toil in his foreboding mountaintop laboratory using pillaged human brains and cadavers. With the terrible creations success, Frankenstein must shield his fianc�e, Elizabeth (Mae Clark), and friends from the Monsters (Boris Karloff) fiendish wrath. Will Frankenstein pay the ultimate price for playing God?

3:30am
Tron (1982)
Rated PG (96 min.) Director: Steven Lisberger
With Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner

The MCP, a master computer program, is appropriating all other programs in order to become the controlling program in the world. To regain access to the computer for users, hacker Kevin Flynn sneaks into the system, but gets himself digitized. Stuck inside the system, he pretends to be a program and manages to help another program, Tron, free the machine from the tyrannical control of the MCP.

5:30am
The 27th Day (1957)
No rating (75 min.) Director: William Asher
With Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec

Five individuals from five nations, including the "Superpowers," USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien spacecraft. An alien gives each a container holding capsules. No power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given. Each person has been provided with the power of life and death. Any of these individuals has the capability to instantaneously launch the capsules to whatever coordinates he/she chooses, and each capsule will then eradicate all human life within a 3,000-mile radius of its designated location.

7:30am
Meet the Feebles (1989)
Not Rated ( 94 min.) Director: Peter Jackson
With voices of Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie, Mark Hadlow

Heidi The Hippo, the star of the Meet The Feebles Variety Hour discovers her husband Bletch, The Walrus is cheating and with all the world waiting for the show the assorted co-stars must contend with their own problems. These include drug abuse, extortion, robbery, AIDS and even murder. While this is happening the love between two of the stars is threatened by the devious Trevor the Rat, who wishes to exploit the young starlet.

9:00am
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Rated PG (133 min.) Director: George Lucas
With Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Nathalie Portman

When the evil Trade Federation plots to take over the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi warrior Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi embark on an amazing adventure to save the planet. With them on their journey is the young queen Amidala, Gungan outcast JarJar Binks, and the powerful Captain Panaka, who will all travel to the faraway planets of Tatooine and Coruscant in a futile attempt to save their world from Darth Sidious, leader of the Trade Federation, and Darth Maul, the strongest Dark Lord of the Sith to ever wield a lightsaber.

10:30am
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Rated PG-13 (111 min.) Director: Jonathan Frakes
With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

The Borg have once again targeted the Federation--but this time, their devious plot threatens not only the present, but Earth's past as well. While Commander Riker, Deanna Troi, and Geordi La Forge work hard on the surface of 21st-century Earth to keep history on schedule, the rest of the crew plays a desperate game with the genetically networked attackers above the planet, matching former Locutus Jean-Luc and cybernetically naive Data against the erotically mechanized cunning of the Borg queen. Resistance is futile.

1:00pm
Demon Seed (1977)
Rated R (97 min.) Director: Donald Cammell
With Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham

A woman, depressed over the recent death of her child and estranged from her scientist husband, finds herself stuck in her home with an incredibly sophisticated computer. Unfortunately this machine, called the Proteus IV and developed by her husband, has become virtually a sentient being with human desires -- including the desire to reproduce. And it has decided that the scientist's wife would make the perfect mother for its offspring...

2:30pm
Surprise II

5:30pm
Futureworld(1976)
Rated PG (104 min.) Director: Richard T. Heffron
With Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill

Sequel to Westworld, where the robots have rebuilt the theme park. Not content with the simple aims of capitalism, the robots, led by the indomitable Duffy (Hill), are bent on complete global domination. When powerful leaders are invited to the park, they uncover a sinister cloning plan to carry out the mission.

7:00pm
The Terminator (1984)
Rated R (108 min.) Director: James Cameron
With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn

An indestructible cyborg travels through time from the post- apocalyptic wasteland of 2029 to present-day Los Angeles in order to fulfill a special mission to assassinate the "mother of the future" -- an innocent young woman who has no idea she is destined to give birth to a son who will save the world from nuclear destruction. A sensational wedding of high-tech hardware and hardcore violence that became one of the most influential action films of the 1980s.

9:30pm
AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Rated PG-13 (145 min.) Director: Steven Spielberg
With Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor

A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife, whose own terminally ill child has been cryogenically frozen until a cure can be found. Though he gradually becomes their child, with all the love and stewardship that entails, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.