No Country for Old Men (2007)
Winner of 4 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay
Back to Images Cinema for 3 days
only: Thursday, May 8 - Sunday, May 10
Thursday, May 8 at 4:30pm
Friday, May 9 at 4:30pm
Saturday, May 10 at 2pm
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Starring: Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin
Rating: R * 2 hours 2 minutes * Drama
Ethan and Joel Coen’s masterpiece deserves to be
seen on film on the big screen one last time, so here’s
your chance!
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug
runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. The story
begins when Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded
by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and 2 million dollars
in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money,
he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that
not even the law, in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff
Bell, can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers--in
particular, a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human
lives--the film simultaneously strips down the American crime
drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient
as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's
headline.
"Many of the scenes in No Country for Old Men are
so flawlessly constructed that you want them to simply continue,
and yet they create an emotional suction drawing you to the
next scene... To make one such film is a miracle."--CHICAGO
SUN-TIMES
Sponsored by the Williams College Department of English.
Pay-What-You-Can; Free w/ Williams ID
The 6th Annual
24-Hour
Video Goosechase & Free-For-All
Saturday, May 10 through Sunday, May 11
"I love this project. Democratic, Participatory, non-alienating
and cheap! Sounds like utopia." Nato Thompson
Saturday, May 10 at 11:30: receive secret clues (required
of all participants)
Sunday, May 11 at 12noon: video deadline
Sunday, May 11 at 1pm: public screening
Completed videos must be 3 minutes or shorter. Trophies will
be awarded based on a panel of judges and audience vote. All
ages and level of experience are encouraged to participate,
individually or in groups. Participants must provide their
own equipment. Equipment is available from local public access
TV stations.
Kids First! Film Club
Saturday, May 17 at 10am
Suggested donation $3 per person; $7 per family
Curious George
(ages 2-5, 29 minutes) The popular PBS animated series based
on the popular books by Margret and HA Rey chronicles the
adventures of the curious little monkey named George.
Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel
(ages 5-8, 11 minutes) This is the story of Mike Mulligan
and his steam shovel, Mary Anne. Mike is proud of Mary Anne
and suspects that she could "dig as much in a day as
a hundred man could dig in a week." Mike and Mary Anne
have dug holes for highways, canals and train passages and
have always performed better when people would watch.
Flatland: The Movie
(ages 5-12, 35 minutes) An animated film inspired by Edwin
A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland. Set in a world of two
dimensions inhabited by sentient geometrical shapes, the story
follows Arthur Square and his curious granddaughter Hex. When
a mysterious visitor arrives from Spaceland, Arthur and Hex
must come to terms with the truth of the third
dimension.
Reunion Weekend Movies
Saturday, June 7 * Free!
The Muppet Movie
2 & 6:30pm
(1979, 97 minutes) Kermit the Frog is discovered by a talent
agent in the swamps of Florida, and is persuaded to seek fame
in Hollywood. Along Miss Piggy, Fozzy Bear, Gonzo, the Electric
Mayhem, and others join him on his journey. Meanwhile Doc
Hopper is on Kermit's trail, for his frog legs restaurant.
This first of a series of Muppet movies features great music
and cameos by Mel Brooks, Orson Wells, Milton Berle, Bob Hope
and others.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9pm
(1975, 91 minutes) King Arthur sets out in search of the
Holy Grail, with the aid of the Knights of the Round Table,
including Sir Galahad the Pure, Sir Lancelot the Brave, and
Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave. "What is the air speed
velocity of an unladen swallow?" Who is Zoot's identical
twin sister? "What else floats in water?" And what
of the Knights Who Say Ni?
Come to Monty Python and the Holy Grail and find out the answers
to these questions!
