Doc Films: A Haven For Movie Fans

unalove
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:36:58 +0000

Doc Films is one of the campus’s best-kept secrets, only that it’s not really a secret. Going to movies there is easy (obviously), volunteering is also pretty easy, but getting on the committee that selects the films is like getting anointed the Pope.

Weeknights (M-Th) are usually obscure-ish movies and every weeknight has a theme. The theme is either a director (last quarter was Kurosawa; this quarter is Almodovar) or a topic (movies about Westward expansion, movies about Mormons).

Weekends are popular movies, with a mix of old, new, and silly. (American Gangster, Happy Feet, Casablanca). The movie showing Friday night of tenth week is always a stupid crowdpleaser (Snakes on a Plane, Superbad, etc.) as that’s the one where there will be lots and lots of drunken revelry.

Also… during Winter Quarter, Thursday nights are double-feature nights. The first is traditional, the second is … ummm… how do I say this… an erotic film.

Doc Calendar:
[Doc Films](http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/)
Doc Films Blog (check out the nod from Ebert!):
[Doc Films: The Blog](http://docfilmsgroup.blogspot.com/)