CWRU Film Society

ATTENTION SCI-FI MARATHON PATRONS! Free parking will be in lots 44 and 47 on campus after 5pm on Friday, Jan. 19. 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 19, at 6pm. Admission is $20.

Movies and times subject to change.

8:00pm
Men In Black (1997)
Rated PG-13 (98 minutes) Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
With Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino

Men in Black follows the exploits of agents Kay (Jones) and Jay (Smith), members of a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth. The two Men in Black find themselves in the middle of the deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist (Vincent D'Onofrio) who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies. In order to prevent worlds from colliding, the MiB must track down the terrorist and prevent the destruction of Earth. It's just another typical day for the Men in Black.

10:00pm
The Arrival (1996)
Rated PG-13 (109 minutes)
With Lindsay Crouse, Charlie Sheen, Richard Schiff

Zane Ziminski is a radio astronomer who picks up strange signals from outer space. Believing these signals to be from intelligent life, he reports his findings to his superiors. He is then fired. Investigating the signals on his own, he discovers similar signals emitting from Mexico. Anxious to discover the source of these transmissions, Zane embarks on a trek to Mexico...

12:00am
Surprise I

1:30am
Swamp Thing (1982)
Rated PG (91 minutes) Director: Wes Craven
With Louis Jordan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise

Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed . . . Arcane, desperate for the formula attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane . . .

3:00am
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1978)
Rated PG (89 minutes) Director: Daniel Haller
With Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor

In 1987, Capt. William "Buck" Rogers, on a space mission to launch a probe, is accidently put into suspended animation in an orbit that only returns his shuttle to our solar system 500 years. His dormant ship is captured by an alien force called the Draconians, led by Princess Ardala. Reviving him, they trick him into returning to Earth after secretly planting a tracer on his shuttle to learn the path through Earth's defence barrier. The Terran Space Force intercepts him and guide him in. Now, Buck Rogers must adjust to this new time, address the suspicions of the Terrans who are convinced he is a spy and protect Earth from the threat that the Draconians secretly pose.

5:00am
Dark City (1998)
Rated R (100 minutes) Director: Alex Proyas
With Rufus Sewall, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

7:00am
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) - Silent with Killiam soundtrack
No rating (40 minutes) Director: J. Charles Haydon
With Sheldon Lewis, Alex Shannon, Dora Mills Adams
In this third version of the classic Stevenson novel filmed in 1920, Jekyll, dreaming he develops a potion which separates the good and evil sides of his personality, decides upon awaking that the consequences of his experiments are too dangerous and abandons them.

8:30am
Barbarella(1968)
Rated PG (98 minutes) Director: Roger Vadim
With Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg

The year is 40000. Peacefully floating around in zero-gravity Barbarella (Jane Fonda) is suddenly interrupted by a call from the President of Earth. A young scientist, Duran Duran, is threatening the ancient universal peace and Barbarella is the chosen one to find him and save the world. During her mission, Barbarella never finds herself in a situation where it isn't possible to lose at least part of her already minimal dressing.

10:00am
The Crawling Eye (1958)
No rating (84 minutes) Director: Quentin Lawrence
With Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne

A remote mountain resort in Switzerland is invaded by horrible alien creatures that like to decapitate humans. The beings are also in telepathic communication with people and inhabit a mysterious, radioactive cloud at the base of the Trollenberg mountain.

11:30am
The Devil-Doll (1936)
No rating (79 minutes) Director: Tod Browning
With Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton

Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to Devil's Island. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond however is consumed with hatred for the men who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

1:00pm
The Iron Giant (1999)
Rated PG (86 minutes) Director: Brad Bird
With voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel

A giant metal machine falls to Earth and frightens the residents of a small town in Maine in 1958, until it befriends a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

2:30pm
The Time Machine (1960)
Rated G (103 minutes) Director: George Pal
With Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux

From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk capture himself (and being eaten) to return to his own time.

4:30pm
Star Trek: Generations(1994)
Rated PG (123 minutes) Director: David Carson
With Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes

In their first big screen adventure, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves fighting Soren, a renegade scientist who is collapsing stars in an attempt to gain access to a mysterious ribbon of energy called the Nexus. Things get worse when Data installs a emotion chip which interferes with his his duties and causes Geordi to be captured by Soren and a renegade Klingon crew, led by Lursa and B'Etor. Now, Captain Jean-Luc Picard must stop Soren before he destroys a star that will lead to the deaths of millions. But before he can stop Soren, Picard must enlist the aid of a legendary starship captain who's been thought dead for 78 years.

6:30pm
Surprise II

8:30pm
Starship Invasions (1977)
Rated PG (89 minutes) Director: Ed Hunt
With Robert Vaughn, Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon

Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?

10:30pm
Starship Troopers (1997)
Rated R (129 minutes) Director: Paul Verhoeven
With Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards

The time is the future. Johnny Rico joins the military after graduation to become a citizen and for the love of his high school sweetheart. In the war against the bug aliens of Klendathu, the military is a very dangerous place to be. Johnny works his way through several battles and with the help of his friends and comrades, helps turn the tide of the war, and save the human race.