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THE CAMPUS THEATRE

HARRIET (PG-13) 125 min.

Thursday, 2/20

7:30 PM - Final showing!

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Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, HARRIET tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

LITTLE WOMEN (PG)

Friday, 2/21

8:00 PM - BYOB Nite!

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Saturday, 2/22

5:00 PM - Open caption sponsored by Geisinger

8:00 PM - BYOB Nite!

 

Sunday, 2/23

5:00 PM
 

Thursday, 2/27

7:30 PM - Final showing!

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Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women each determined to live life on her own terms -- is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March.

Bucknell Unversity Film Series: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Monday, 2/24

7:00 PM 

Admission is FREE & open to the public!

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Ana Lily Amirpour (U.S. 2014) 99 min. DCP. With Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh. Farsi with English subtitles.

 

 

The first vampire Western ever made in the Farsi language, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. Dressed in hijab, a female vampire cruises the ghost town of Bad City on a skateboard, seeking her next victim in this joyful mash-up of genre, archetype and iconography, whose prolific influences span Spaghetti Westerns, graphic novels, horror films and the Iranian New Wave.

Bucknell Unversity Film Series: Kung-Fu Master!

Tuesday, 2/25

7:00 PM 

Admission is FREE & open to the public!

 

Agnès Varda (France 1987) 81 min. With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy. French with English subtitles.

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A truly bold, transgressive, lovely and singular film, Kung-Fu Master! is the tale of a lonely forty-year-old woman who falls in love with the classmate of her teenage daughter. Varda, one of cinema’s towering visionaries, died last year, leaving us with a vast oeuvre of personal, whimsical and fearless films. Here, she proffers pure, maternal love (innocent and consuming) crossed with the intimacy of physical desire – a provocation whose backdrop is the ongoing AIDS crisis. A director who said she preferred daydreams to psychology, Varda cast this memorable fantasy with her own and her lead actress’ family: Jane Birkin (a national figure in France, celebrated for her work as an actress as well as her liaison with singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg) stars, appearing with her two reallife daughters (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, her child with filmmaker Jacques Doillon); the young man is played by Mathieu Demy, Varda’s son with the director Jacques Demy. 

Bucknell Unversity Film Series: Ace In The Hole

Wednesday, 2/26

2:00 PM 

Admission is FREE & open to the public!

 

Billy Wilder (U.S. 1951) 111 min. 35MM. With Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur.

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A ruthless, down-on-his-luck reporter (Douglas), relegated to a dead-end job at a small-town paper, finds himself at the center of a sensational story and manipulates the people involved to prolong his moment in the sun (Brattle Theater program notes). Playing with Death Mills (1945), Wilder’s compilation of documentary footage filmed after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen extermination camp.

Bucknell Unversity Film Series: Los Olvidados

Wednesday, 2/27

7:00 PM 

Admission is FREE & open to the public!

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Luis Buñuel (Mexico 1950) 80 min. DCP. With Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda. Spanish with English subtitles.

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“An iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth ” (New York Times), Luis Buñuel burst back onto the international scene with this stunningly raw portrait of disaffected Mexican youths running wild. This early masterpiece follows a gang of boys, led by a sadistic ringleader, who prey on the weak and helpless, and marries Buñuel’s trademark surrealism—most famously in a haunting, slow-motion dream sequence—with hard-edged social realism, all building up to the heart-stopping final shot (BAMcinématek program notes).

1917 (R)

Friday, 2/28

8:00 PM - BYOB Nite!

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Saturday, 2/29

5:00 PM - Open caption sponsored by Geisinger

8:00 PM - BYOB Nite!

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Sunday, 3/1

5:00 PM
 

Thursday, 3/5

7:30 PM - Final showing!

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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic's George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones' Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers--Blake's own brother among them.

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

Sunday, 3/1

1:00 PM

Admission $15, Seniors $12, Students $10

Tickets available at the door, doors open at 12:30 PM

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Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons. 

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America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.

 

But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare.

 

Jeremy Herrin (NT Live: This House) directs the cast, which also includes Jenna Coleman (Victoria), and Colin Morgan (Merlin) alongside Bessie Carter, Oliver Johnstone, Kayla Meikle and Sule Rimi.