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CSUN Cinematheque

The screenings sponsored by the CSUN Cinematheque support the academic mission of the Cinema and Television Arts Department. They are usually provided in conjunction with a required class lecture. Seating is reserved for those students enrolled in the course. If extra seating is available, it will be offered to anyone wishing to audit the lecture.

The Alan and Elaine Armer Theater is located in Manzanita Hall. For DIRECTIONS, click on QUICK LINKS for a map of the campus. The University requires a parking permit to park in the University parking lots. Parking permits are available for purchase ($6) at the Information Booths located on Prairie Street on the west side of campus and Lindley Avenue on the south side of campus. Exact change is required.

 

Monthly Screening Schedules

Fall 2009


Spring 2010

Screening Schedule

Please be aware that the Armer Theater follows the rules of etiquette endorsed by the Television Academy and the Motion Picture Academy screening facilities. For the optimum viewing experience and to maintain the pristine environment, we do not allow any food (including chewing gum) or drinks (including bottled water) into the venue. We require that all cell phones, computers, mp3 players, and text messaging devices be turned off and put away during events. We require that each guest be properly seated in order to remain in the venue and that they refrain from disturbing others guests by talking during the screenings.
SEATING IS ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED BASIS. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE GENERAL ADMISSION SEATS HELD FOR GUESTS WHO ARE NOT READY TO BE SEATED. THIS MEANS THAT GUESTS MAY NOT HOLD SEATS FOR FRIENDS WHO WILL BE ARRIVING LATE OR WHO ARE FURTHER BACK IN THE QUEUE.
 

December

Poster for Pierrot le fou

1 Dec - Tuesday - 7 PM
“MANY VIEWS OF FRANCE” SERIES

Pierrot le fou

(1965 -- 1 hr. 50 min. --  w d Jean-Luc Godard)

After abandoning his wife and infant daughter for the new babysitter, a woman he'd loved and lost several years earlier, an errant husband embarks on a haphazard road to tragedy.

(movies.yahoo.com)

Poster for Oleanna

2 Dec - Wednesday - 3:30 PM

Oleanna

(1994 -- 1 hr. 30 min. -- w d David Mamet)

Based on David Mamet's two character play about sexual harassment, focusing on a male professor accused of harassing a female student.

(movies.yahoo.com)

Poster for Sleuth

2 Dec - Wednesday - 7 PM

Sleuth

(2007 -- 1 hr. 28 min. -- play Anthony Shaffer  w Harold Pinter  d Kenneth Branagh)

The updated story of a wealthy writer of detective stories, and an aspiring yet out-of-work actor who is having an affair with the writer's wife. The writer's exquisitely modernized Georgian manor, becomes the backdrop for a cat and mouse game that pits one creative mind against another.

(movies.yahoo.com)

Poster for Dr. Strangelove or:  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

3 Dec - Thursday - 3:30 PM

Dr. Strangelove or:  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

(1964 -- 1 hr. 33 min. -- novel Peter George  w Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George  d Stanley Kubrick)

Fearful that the Russians are flouridating America's drinking water, General Jack D. Ripper unleashes a B-52 H-Bomb attack on the Soviets, and a frantic President and Joint Chiefs of Staff must somehow find a way to stop it.

(movies.yahoo.com)

Poster for La Chinoise

3 Dec -- Thursday -- 7 PM
Thursday Nights at the Cinematheque / Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave

La Chinoise
(The Chinese)

(1967 -- 1 hr. 36 min. -- w d Jean-Luc Godard)

In 1967 Jean-Luc Godard brought LA CHINOISE to the screen. The film is set in a tiny Paris apartment that houses four students with a deep interest in the communist movement. Juliet Bertho and Jean-Pierre Leaud are among the actors who bring Godard's thoughtful piece to life.

(movies.yahoo.com)

 

DVD cover for The Magnificent Seven

8 Dec - Tuesday - 7 PM

The Magnificent Seven

(1960 -- 2 hr. 6 min. -- w William Roberts  d John Sturges)

A group of seven tough gunslingers are hired by a Mexican village to put a stop to the vicious bandit and his gang who have been pillaging it for years.

(movies.yahoo.com)

Poster for Redbelt

9 Dec - Wednesday - 3:30 PM

Redbelt

(2008 -- 1 hr. 39 min. -- w d David Mamet)

In the west-side of Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cagefighters, cops and special forces types, Mike Terry is a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing instead to pursue an honorable life by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai's code. Terry and his wife Sondra struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between an off duty officer and a distraught lawyer puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry's life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters and movie star Chet Frank. Faced with this, in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life.

(movies.yahoo.com)

Poster for Synecdoche, New York

9 Dec - Wednesday - 7 PM

Synecdoche, New York

(2008 -- 2 hr. 4 min. -- w d Charlie Kaufman)

Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. His lingering attachments to both Adele and Hazel are causing him to helplessly drive his new marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy and Tammy, the actors hired to play Caden and Hazel, are making it difficult for the real Caden to revive his relationship with the real Hazel. The textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's own deteriorating reality. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.

(movies.yahoo.com)

Post for Week End

10 Dec -- Thursday -- 7 PM
Thursday Nights at the Cinematheque / Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave

Week End

(1967 -- 1 hr. 45 min. -- w d Jean-Luc Godard)

A young couple taking a country drive from Paris find themselves falling upon an incredible traffic jam and a subsequent path of destruction and mayhem.

(movies.yahoo.com)

Poster for THE CHICAGO 8

11 Dec -- Friday -- 8 PM
Sneak Preview followed by Q&A

The Chicago 8

(NOT YET RELEASED -- @2 hr. 00 min. -- w d Pinchas Perry)

The Chicago 8 is a courtroom drama based on actual court transcripts from the trial that resulted when the “Yippies” (including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden along with Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale) were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention.

The cast includes Orlando Jones, Gary Cole, Danny Masterson, and Philip Baker Hall. The film was written and directed by Pinchas Perry. Richard Halsey, ACE (Academy Award winning Editor for Rocky) and his wife Colleen Halsey are the film's editors. CSUN alumni James Mathers is the cinematographer.