44th Annual Science Fiction Marathon

by The Film Society

Social Topic: Movies and TV UMB

Fri, Jan 18, 2019 8:00 PM –

Sun, Jan 20, 2019 9:00 AM EST (GMT-5)

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Strosacker Auditorium

2125 Adelbert Rd., Cleveland, OH 44106, United States

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Join us this January 18th and 19th, 2019, to take part in one of CWRU Film Society's most ancient traditions, the 44th annual SCI-FI MARATHON!

The Agenda Section on this page lists the current schedule. Please note that during the marathon itself the start times for each of the films may vary. Visit our Facebook Page www.facebook.com/CWRUFilms for up-to-date times.

In addition to our regular schedule we'll be showing some terrific, vintage cartoons!

Too busy to attend every movie? Don't worry! For the entire night and access to all the films, a ticket costs $30. However, you can always gain entry to a single movie for $4. (Groupon will not accepted for Thon movies)

Parking will be available on campus in lot 44 (the lot used for the past 5 years), and entry to lot 1A (the lot used prior to lot 44) will be available between 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm on January 18.

For more information, please visit: http://films.case.edu/sfmarathon44

Chances are you'll never have more fun for 30 dollars. And, it's legal in 43 states!

Agenda

Past Events

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
12:30 AM – 2:30 AM
Strosacker Auditorium
Surprise 1 (???)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: PG-13

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
2:30 AM – 3:05 AM
Strosacker Auditorium
Wallace & Gromit - A Close Shave (1995)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: NR
Run Time: 30 min.
Format: Digital
Director: Nick Park
With Peter Sallis, Anne Reid, Justin Fletcher

Wallace falls for Wendolene, a wool shop owner, while Gromit is framed for the sheep rustling.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
3:05 AM – 4:50 AM
Strosacker Auditorium
Attack the Block (2011)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: R
Run Time: 88 min.
Format: TBD
Director: Joe Cornish
With John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail

A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
4:50 AM – 6:00 AM
Strosacker Auditorium
The Outer Limits - Demon with a Glass Hand (1964)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: TV-PG
Run Time: 51 min.
Format: TBD
Director: Byron Haskin
With Robert Culp, Arlene Martel, Abraham Sofaer

Days ago, Trent awoke with no memory of his past. Since then, sinister men have pursued him constantly. He manages to stay one step ahead of them by following the advice of his hand. Made of glass and apparently capable of speech, Trent's hand can answer many of his questions. But it cannot tell him who he is or why his enemies seek him until he finds all of its fingers. The only trouble is that they're in the hands of his enemies.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
6:00 AM – 8:05 AM
Strosacker Auditorium
Surprise 2 (???)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: NR

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
8:05 AM – 10:15 AM
Strosacker Auditorium
Demolition Man (1993)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: R
Run Time: 115 min.
Format: 35mm Film
Director: Marco Brambilla
With Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
10:15 AM – 12:10 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
Space Jam (1996)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: PG
Run Time: 88 min.
Format: 35mm Film
Director: Joe Pytka
With Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle

In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
12:10 PM – 2:05 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
Upgrade (2018)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: R
Run Time: 100 min.
Format: DCP
Director: Leigh Whannell
With Logan Marshall-Green, Melanie Vallejo, Steve Danielsen

Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
2:05 PM – 2:35 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
Wallace & Gromit - A Grand Day Out (1989)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: NR
Run Time: 23 min.
Format: TBD
Director: Nick Park
With Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins

Wallace takes a break from trying to decide on a holiday destination only to find he has no cheese for his crackers. The solution to both problems is a trip to the moon, with dog Gromit, because everybody knows the moon's made of cheese.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
2:35 PM – 4:25 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
Timecrimes (2007)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: R
Run Time: 92 min.
Format: 35mm Film
Director: Nach Vigolondo
With Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
4:25 PM – 6:20 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
Surprise 3 (???)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: NR
Format: 35mm Film

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
6:20 PM – 8:35 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: PG
Run Time: 117 min.
Format: 35mm Film
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
With Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Ky├┤da

Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
8:35 PM – 10:20 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
A Quiet Place (2018)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: PG-13
Run Time: 90 min.
Format: TBD
Director: John Krasinski
With Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds

In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
10:20 PM – 11:00 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
Wallace & Gromit - The Wrong Trousers (1993)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: NR
Run Time: 30 min.
Format: TBD
Director: Nick Park
With Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins

Wallace takes in a new lodger, a devious penguin. Sporting some techno-trousers, the penguin plans a grand theft, a plan that involves putting Wallace in danger.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019
11:00 PM – 11:20 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
Frankenstein (1910)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: NR
Run Time: 16 min.
Format: TBD
Director: J. Searle Dawley
With Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster. A fight ensues but the monster, seeing himself in a mirror, is horrified and runs away. He later returns, entering the new bride's room, and finds her alone.

Sat, Jan 19, 2019 11:20 PM
Sun, Jan 20, 2019 1:20 AM
Strosacker Auditorium
Gremlins (1984)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: PG
Run Time: 106 min.
Format: 35mm Film
Director: Joe Dante
With Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton

A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

Fri, Jan 18, 2019
8:00 PM – 10:40 PM
Strosacker Auditorium
Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.

Rating: PG-13
Run Time: 127 min.
Format: 35mm Film
Directors: Lana and Lilly Wachowski
With Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne

A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.

Fri, Jan 18, 2019 10:40 PM
Sat, Jan 19, 2019 12:30 AM
Strosacker Auditorium
They Live (1988)

Payment for this showing will be accepted at the door!
Cash and CaseCash accepted.
Start time subject to change. Please visit @CWRUFilms on Facebook for up to date imformation.

Rating: R
Run Time: 94 min.
Format: 35mm Film
Director: John Carpenter
With Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster

A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.

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Strosacker Auditorium

2125 Adelbert Rd., Cleveland, OH 44106, United States

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