30th Annual LSC Science Fiction Marathon
Jyotsna Venkataramanan
Sat Jan 26, 07pm-07:00am, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Fee: 7.00 for covering film licensing and shipping charges
Featuring special shorts, fun activities, extra refreshments, and a variety of sci-fi films. Admission at 7pm is $7, and drops to $4 after "The Host".
The marathon features five full length films and several short features.
7:00pm - Galaxy Quest
9:30pm - Sunshine
11:30pm - pizza break, SURPRISE scifi episode
12:00am - The Host
3:00am - Gattaca
5:00am - Starship Troopers
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: Jyotsna Venkataramanan, W20-469, (617) 253-3791, lsc@mit.edu
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Jumper - FREE Sneak Preview and Discussion Panel - featuring Hayden Christensen!
Jyotsna Venkataramanan
Wed Jan 16, 08-10:00pm, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The screening will be followed by a discussion panel on the film and the physics of teleportation, featuring leading actor Hayden Christensen, director Doug Liman, and MIT Physics Professors Max Tegmark and Edward Farhi.
Synopsis: David Rice (Hayden Christensen) always believed he was perfectly ordinary -- until he accidentally discovered he possessed a genetic anomaly that is nothing less than extraordinary. David is a Jumper who can teleport himself to the streets of New York and Tokyo, the ruins of Rome, and the Sahara Desert. He can see twenty sunsets in one night, whisk his girlfriend around the world in the blink of an eye, and grab millions of dollars in a matter of minutes. But David's global odyssey takes a deadly turn when he finds himself relentlessly pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers.
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: Jyotsna Venkataramanan, W20-469, (617) 253-3791, lsc@mit.edu
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Sunshine
Jyotsna Venkataramanan
Sun Jan 27, 07-09:00pm, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Fee: 3.00 for Covering film licensing and shipping fees
Danny Boyle has excelled in nearly every genre he’s touched from the family film (Millions) to the zombie movie (28 Days Later) to the drug-fuelled drama (Trainspotting). With Sunshine, he brings his style and verve to the futuristic world of science fiction to great success. In a mere five decades in the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is running out of time. After the failure of a previous mission, it’s up to the crew of the Icarus II to reignite the star with a stellar bomb. But the crew faces more than just the blistering heat of the sun and the freezing cold of space as they grapple with the limits of the human mind and heart.
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: Jyotsna Venkataramanan, W20-469, (617) 253-3791, lsc@mit.edu
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The Host (Gwoemul)
Jyotsna Venkataramanan
Sun Jan 27, 10pm-12:00am, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Fee: 3.00 for film licensing and shipping fees
The talk of the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival, The Host, the latest film from critically acclaimed visionary director Bong Joon-ho, has already garnered a substantial amount of international buzz. Utilizing state-of-the-art special effects courtesy of a creative partnership between Weta Workshop (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) and The Orphanage (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sin City), The Host is equal parts creature-feature thrill ride and poignant human drama.
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: Jyotsna Venkataramanan, W20-469, (617) 253-3791, lsc@mit.edu
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Beowulf - a FREE screening!
Jyotsna Venkataramanan
Fri Jan 25, 07-09:00pm, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Sony Imageworks in conjunction with MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program and LSC present a screening of the 2007 Robert Zemeckis/Neil Gaiman scripted film: BEOWULF! Attendance is FREE!
In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages, immortalizing the name of Beowulf.
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: Jyotsna Venkataramanan, W20-469, (617) 253-3791, lsc@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Hotel Rwanda - a FREE screening and discussion
Jyotsna Venkataramanan
Thu Jan 17, 07-10:00pm, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Co-sponsored by MIT STAND. Free African refreshments will be provided.
Hotel Rwanda will be followed by a lecture featuring Marie Gakuba, who was 8 years old during the genocide and lost both parents and four siblings. She was adopted in 1995 and moved here in 2004, and is now a junior at the University of New Hampshire majoring in political science and international affairs.
Don Cheadle gives a riveting performance as Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of a European-owned hotel in Rwanda, who created a secret refugee camp for the Tutsi people during the brutal genocide committed against them by the Hutu people in 1994. His efforts helped to save 1200 lives out of close to a million who were killed. Hotel Rwanda shows this man's courage, while also capturing the political events that occurred between April and September 1994.
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: Jyotsna Venkataramanan, W20-469, (617) 253-3791, lsc@mit.edu
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SONY IMAGEWORKS PRESENTS: BEOWULF
Generoso Fierro
Fri Jan 25, 07-09:00pm, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Sony Imageworks in conjunction with MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program and LSC present a screening of the 2007 Robert Zemeckis/Neil Gaiman scripted film: BEOWULF!
Attendance is free and open to the MIT Community!
Contact: Generoso Fierro, NE25-385, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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