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. 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 17 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.

STAGE RULES: 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
After Earth (2013)
Rated PG-13 (100 min.) Director: M. Night Shyamalan
With Jaden Smith, David Denman, Will Smith
Read more about it at the IMDB

One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

10:30pm
The Iron Giant (1999)
Rated PG (86 min.) Director: Brad Bird
With voices of Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr.,Jennifer Aniston
Read more about it at the IMDB

This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard.

12:30am
Surprise I - Mars Attacks!

2:30am
Men In Black III (2012)
Rated PG (106 min.) Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
With Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin
Read more about it at the IMDB

After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something K had never told him.

4:30am
Mysterious Island (1961)
Not Rated (101 min.) Director: Cy Endfield
With Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan
Read more about it at the IMDB

As the war between the States is coming to an end, an imprisoned Union captain, two other prisoners, a confederate soldier and a civilian newspaperman escape in a hot air balloon. Strong winds carry the across the country and out over the Pacific where they eventually land on what at first appears to be an uninhabited island. They are soon joined by two women, survivors of a pirate attack. While they manage to make a home for themselves, they have to deal with extraordinarily large animals including a giant crab and giant bees. The giant fauna is the result of experiments by Captain Nemo who has lived on the island aboard his crippled submarine, the Nautilus, for eight years. They also have to deal with an active volcano and time is short if they are to leave the island before it explodes.

6:30am
Brazil (1985)
Rated R (132 min.) Director: Terry Gilliam
With Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro
Read more about it at the IMDB

Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.

9:00am
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Rated PG-13 (88 min.) Director: Stephen Chiodo
With Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson
Read more about it at the IMDB

During nighttime in a small town, an alien spaceship resembling a circus tent arrives and two young adults Mike Tobacco and Debbie Stone discover who were the ones that came inside the spaceship. And those are aliens that look like clowns, who are secretly killing humans with circus-themed weapons. It's up to Mike Tobacco and Officer Hansen to stop these clowns or else humankind is doomed.

11:00am
Primer (2004)
Rated PG-13 (77 min.) Director: Shane Carruth
With Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden
Read more about it at the IMDB

At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices. But, they know that there is something more. There is some idea, some mechanism, some accidental side effect that is standing between them and a pure leap of innovation. And so, through trial and error they are building the device that is missing most. However, two of these men find the device and immediately realize that it is too valuable to market. The limit of their trust in each other is strained when they are faced with the question, If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?

12:30pm
Children of Men (2006)
Rated R (109 min.) Director: Alfonso Cuaron
With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Read more about it at the IMDB

The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate journey to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth.

3:15pm
Dune (1984)
Rated PG-13 (137 min.) Director: David Lynch
With Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis
Read more about it at the IMDB

Set in a distant future where life in the universe and space travel is dependent upon a spice found only on the planet Dune, this film tracks the rise of young Paul Atreides, son of noble Duke Leto, from the time of his father's betrayal and murder by the evil Baron Harkonnen, to his discovery of the great secret behind the planet Dune and his own destiny, which is to free the planet and its denizens of the cruel rule of the Emperor.

6:00pm
Surprise II - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!

8:30pm
Monsters, Inc (2001)
Rated PG (93 min.) Director: Pete Docter
With voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs
Read more about it at the IMDB

Monsters generate their city's power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley finds his world disrupted.

10:30pm
The World's End (2013)
Rated R (109 min.) Director: Edgar Wright
With Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman
Read more about it at the IMDB

20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries.