October 31: The Nightmare before Christmas and Sleepy Hollow

The Nightmare before Christmas

From movies.yahoo.com:

Despite having recently presided over a very successful Halloween, Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is bored with his job and feels that life in Halloweenland lacks meaning. Then he stumbles upon Christmastown and promptly decides to make the Yuletide his own.


***For all who want the experience of Halloweentown to be as real as it can be, The Nightmare before Christmas is currently playing in theaters in an all-new 3-D format! Tickets can be purchased at fandango.com.



Sleepy Hollow

From movies.yahoo.com:

Ichabod Crane, a discredited professor is exiled to Sleepy Hollow because of his outrageous theories. Once there he learns of a local myth and uncovers a headless horseman, who has killed four people in search of a suitable replacement for his own missing head.

Screening to start at ***8pm

October 24: Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko

From movies.yahoo.com: Some may think that Donnie Darko is a typical maladjusted teenager. Actually, Donnie is borderline delusional, beset by visions of a monstrous rabbit which is trying to keep him under its sinister influence. Prompted by this apparition, Donnie commits antisocial acts while he is undergoing psychotherapy, surviving the vagaries of high-school life and romance, and fortuitously escaping a bizarre death from a falling jet engine. Donnie battles his demons, literally and figuratively, in a series of intertwining story lines that play with time travel, fundamentalist gurus, fate, predestination and the machinations of the universe.

Screening to start at 9pm


***Special Event: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

SNEAK PREVIEW, courtesy of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA)

From movies.yahoo.com:
A biopic about the life of photographer Diane Arbus, considered one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly bold artists of the 20th century. Most known for her obsession with 'freak' subject-matter, her haunting work emerged from a deeply private place. Arbus' death was as mysteriously tragic as was the aura surrounding some of her most piercing portraits.

Screening, to be accompanied by a talk by director Steven Shainberg, to begin at 6:30