Archive for March, 2012


Three reasons Tufts Film Series wants you to see this movie:

1) Director Stanley Kubrick introduced a snake into the film when he found out that Malcolm McDowell had a fear of snakes.

2) One of only two initially X-rated movies that has been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

3) The first cut of the film ran over four hours. Stanley Kubrick had an assistant destroy all of the unused footage after making the 136-minute final cut.

Free movies. Big screen. Every weekend.

Three reasons Tufts Film Series wants you to see this movie:

1) Muppets.

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSXciBh8KoY

3) Muppets.

Free movies. Big screen. Every weekend.

Three reasons Tufts Film Series wants you to see this movie:

1) This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzvrzLJxnko

2) The first film directed by a woman to exceed $100million at the box office.

3) Tom Hanks’ first Oscar nomination.

Free movies. Big screen. Every weekend.

Three reasons Tufts Film Series wants you to see this movie:

1) The DeLorean.

2) 1.21 Gigawatts! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cYgRnfFDA)

3) Disney turned this film down because of the brief incest implied by the scene where Marty’s mother from the past tries to kiss him.

Free movies. Big screen. Every weekend.

Three reasons Tufts Film Series wants you to see this film:

1) Witness the magic of motion capture acting surpassing all of the conventional acting.

2) The “in-flight footage” from the Icarus mission is actually a clip of on-board film from the 1968 flight of Apollo 8.

3) This is the second film in which Andy Serkis’ charcter he bites off someone else’s finger.

Free movies. Big Screen. Every weekend.