International Film Series: Upcoming Movies

Event Horizon

35mm! Part of Spooky Cinema!. Shows Wed October 28 at 7:30 PM at Muenzinger Auditorium.In recognition of Sam Neills passing, were taking a look at the side of his career that gets less attention from the mainstream the horror film. And Sam tended to lean into the weird ones. After disappearing for seven years, revolutionary spaceship Event Horizon is rediscovered. The team of scientists sent to investigate find that the entire crew is dead, and a terrifying, malevolent presence is lurking on board.

Hereditary

Part of Spooky Cinema!. Shows Thu October 29 at 7:30 PM at Muenzinger Auditorium.When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.

IFS Underground #28

Shows Fri October 30 at 10:30 PM at VAC Basement Auditorium (1B20). Free admission!The IFS UNDERGROUND series offers (usually) secret, free late-night showings of cult films. Expect blood, violence, nudity, and all kinds of depravity. If youre into the weird, this is the series for you! Hosted and curated by Jason Shoemaker.

Castle in the Sky

35mm! Special introduction by Cinema Studies Scholar in Residence, Jonathan Lack!. Shows Mon November 2 at 7:30 PM at Muenzinger Auditorium.The first film under the Studio Ghibli banner and one of Hayao Miyazakis most revered classics. A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machines, eventually searching for Sheeta's identity in a floating castle of a lost civilization.

The Girl Who Went Away

Filmmaker Emett Casey in person. Shows Tue November 3 at 7:30 PM at Muenzinger Auditorium. Free admission!Upon learning of her family curse, thirteen-year-old Vee runs away to live in the mountains where the veil is the thinnest and magic more present. Sixteen years later the brother she left behind, Callum, attempts writing her a letter while juggling his mundane responsibilities and resisting his belief in the same family curse. Jumping between time periods, genres and styles, this arthouse fantasy plays out like a narrative poem, with as much interest in gesture, rhythm, texture and tone as with narrative conventions.Shot on a shoestring budget over three years, with a crew never exceeding five people, the film was photographed on a variety of stressed and expired films stocks - from Super8 to 35mm. Overseeing the complete process, Emett Casey wrote, produced, directed, shot, mixed, edited, and mastered the film. He also created the wardrobe, the creatures and puppets used in the film, and even processed and scanned the film stock himself while working at a film lab. This culminates in a unique and singular vision unlike most other films out there today.