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Apply to the Film Board!

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Do you ever look at the Film Series calendar and think, “Wow, why did they choose that? Why didn’t they put this movie up? I could do such a good job picking movies for this series.”

Then why not Apply to the Film Board!

Bring the Wesleyan campus the films you know they want to see! Gain experience curating an artistic enterprise! Argue with film nerds for hours with a tangible result at the end!

Applications must be submitted as a hard copy to the office of Logan Ludwig at the Center for Film Studies by Friday, February 24.

Film Board Application 2017

Apply to the Film Board!

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The Film Board, the student group that programs the Wesleyan Film Series, is now accepting member applications for the 2016-2017 school year! If you are interested in applying, please fill out **THIS** application and return it in hard copy to the Film Studies office by 4 p.m. on Friday, February 19.

Please direct any further questions to wesleyanfilmseries[at]gmail[dot]com.

Apply for the Film Board!

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The Film Board, the student group that programs the Wesleyan Film Series, is currently accepting member applications for Fall 2015 – Spring 2016. If you are interested in applying, please fill out this application and return it in hard copy to the Film Studies office by 4 p.m. on Friday, February 20.

Please direct any further questions to wesleyanfilmseries[at]gmail[dot]com.

Suggest Movies for the 2014-15 Film Series

Have you ever complained to your friends that your favorite movie is never available to watch in 35mm? Want the chance for your cinematic voice to be heard by the Wesleyan masses? Want more Fellini? More Michael Bay?

We have just the survey for you…

Submit any and all suggestions for next year’s Film Series calendar! Or if technology frightens you, write them down and drop them in one of the Film Series suggestion boxes around campus. We want to know what you want to watch.

Film Board Applications Due Friday

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If you can’t seem to stop getting into heated debates over this year’s Oscar nominations, or if you spend most of your evenings combing through Netflix’s newest selections, consider putting your ardor for the cinema to good use and apply to join the film board!

The film board is responsible for soliciting and reviewing campus suggestions for the Film Series, programming and writing the Film Series calendars, publicizing the series, and staffing screening events (on an as-needed basis). Students of any major or class year (’15, ’16, and ’17) are encouraged to apply.

All applications are due in hard copy to the Film Studies office by 4pm on Friday, Feb 21. Applications can be downloaded here.

Apply to Join the Film Board

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If you can’t seem to stop getting into heated debates over this year’s Oscar nominations, or if you spend most of your evenings combing through Netflix’s newest selections, consider putting your ardor for the cinema to good use and apply to join the film board!

The film board is responsible for soliciting and reviewing campus suggestions for the Film Series, programming and writing the Film Series calendars, publicizing the series, and staffing screening events (on an as-needed basis). Students of any major or class year (’15, ’16, and ’17) are encouraged to apply.

All applications are due in hard copy to the Film Studies office by 4pm on Friday, Feb 21. Applications can be downloaded here.

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Film Series Celebrates Spring with Feel-Good Hits ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ ‘Psycho, ‘The Master’

Okay, fine, they’re also closing off the year with The Breakfast Club.

Get ready to enjoy the final Film Series calendar of the year with some fava beans and a nice Chianti, because Hannibal Lector is coming to the Goldsmith. Silence of the Lambs—the first film I ever saw in a movie theater (I was five months old) and at Wesleyan, maybe the last—will be joined by feel-good blockbusters like so-obvious-you-can’t-believe-you-haven’t-seen-it-at-the-Goldsmith Psycho (just in time for Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock biopic, starring Dr.  Lector Anthony Hopkins himself) and recently acclaimed Paul Thomas Anderson Scientology meditation The Master, which stars usual suspect Philip Seymour Hoffman and up-and-coming rapper Joaquin Phoenix. These films are playing on Friday, April 19; Wednesday, April 3; and Wednesday, March 27, respectively.

As far as serious crowd-pleasers go, you’ll probably be excited to note that the Film Board is closing off the academic year (just about) with John Hughes classic The Breakfast Club, because a raging  “Don’t You Forget About Me” singalong in the Goldsmith is precisely what this campus needs. (Prepare by reviewing Molly Ringwald’s Reddit AMA!) (Maybe next year you’ll be blessed with Sixteen Candles.) Speaking of the ’80s, they have also finally honored Goatmilk’s insistent requests for The Land Before Time, which is scheduled to light up your weekend with dinosaurs next Friday night. Also on the agenda is something calling itself “An Evening of Experimental Cinema,” because of course there is.

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Apply for the Film Board

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Pictured: Typical Film Board Meeting

The Film Board is responsible for soliciting and reviewing campus suggestions for the Film Series, programming the series, writing the Film Series calendars, publicizing the Film Series (through posters, trailers, the Argus, emails, and online sources), and staffing screening events on an as-needed basis. Appointment is to a one-year term, although Film Board members may reapply for additional years of service.

Applications are due to the Film Studies office by 4pm on Monday, February 18th. The application form may be picked up from the office or downloaded from here.

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New Film Series Calendar Includes ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ ‘Matrix,’ ‘Ghostbusters’

Unfortunately, they couldn’t snag Quvenzhane for a Q&A after the film.

It’s halfway through the semester, and you know what that means: your shared Wesbox contains another meticulously folded black-and-white calendar containing terse blurbs for approximately 19 critically acclaimed films that you haven’t seen and maybe five that you have. As usual, the lineup was cruelly crafted behind closed doors by an evil-minded, thin-lipped committee of cackling—wait, no, that’s Spring Fling. (Kidding, Will.) If you’re too lazy to trek to Usdan in the rain, here’s a preview.

The no-brainer sell-out feature this time around is Beasts of the Southern Wild, the massively acclaimed semi-apocalyptic New Orleans fantasy by Wesleyan alum Benh Zeitlin ’04 that’s captured the imagination of everyone from Roger Ebert  to Barack Obama. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and played at the Goldsmith over Reunion & Commencement, but that was before the hype really hit overdrive. With serious Oscar buzz mounting, you’ll want to get to the Goldsmith early on Friday, November 19. (Wes hasn’t managed to get Zeitlin back to Middletown yet, but you can read a recent Argus interview with the homegrown director here.)

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Foss Hill Movie (Indiana Jones) @ 8PM!

The WSA and the Film Board present Movie Night on Foss Hill TODAY. We have contracted a giant 2000sqft screen—the same used for the TriBeCa film festival—and an awesome 4500-watt sound system!

The feature presentation, as selected in a school-wide vote, will be:

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc

So bring your friends and a blanket to Foss Hill where you can finally eat, drink, smoke, and be merry with an awesome movie on a beautiful spring evening.

The film will be played at 8PM on Foss Hill today.

Go Wes,

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Check out the Foss Movie Night Facebook page here.