Film Series

Start time is 7:30 PM for all screenings.

All movie screenings are free and open to the public. Reservations are not needed.

Sponsored by the Leon and Helen Church Family Foundation

Nine films explore two themes this season: Real and Unreal, and Dangerous Obsessions. Stay afterward for an informal audience following each screening. Some films contain adult themes or language and may not be appropriate for everyone.

Real and Unreal

Fight Club (1999, rated R; 139 min.)
September 28, 2011

An insomniac office worker and a soap salesman start an underground network to help men channel their aggression into a shocking, violent new form of therapy. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton star.

The Matrix (1999, rated R; 136 min.)
November 29, 2011

Keanu Reeves is a malevolent computer hacker who learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

Lars and the Real Girl (2007, rated PG-13; 106 min.)
February 15, 2012

An awkwardly shy, delusional guy (Ryan Gosling) starts a meaningful relationship with the girl of his dreams—a life-size doll he buys on the Internet.

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010, rated R; 87 min.)
March 6, 2012

An eccentric French shopkeeper and amateur filmmaker attempts to capture the world of clandestine graffiti artist Banksy on film, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.

Being John Malkovich (1999, rated R; 112 min.)
April 18, 2012

A puppeteer (John Cusack) exploits his discovery of a portal that leads straight into the movie star’s mind. Spike Jonze directed the film, nominated for three Oscars.

Dangerous Obsessions

Rear Window (1954, rated PG; 112 min.)
October 12, 2011

James Stewart stars as a wheelchair bound voyeuristic photographer who believes one of his neighbors is a murderer, in director Alfred Hitchcock’s suspenseful classic that was nominated for four Academy Awards.

The Conversation (1974, rated PG; 113 min.)
November 9, 2011

An intensely private electronic surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he overhears that a young couple’s lives are in jeopardy. Gene Hackman stars; Francis Ford Coppola directed.

The Hurt Locker (2008, rated R; 131 min.)
February 1, 2012

This intense portrayal of an elite Army bomb squad unit in Iraq won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Dangerous Liaisons (1988, rated R; 119 min.)
April 5, 2012

Rich and bored French aristocrats (John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer) play high stakes games of seduction, betrayal and revenge in 18th century France.

Independent

Welcome to Shirley (NR, 2011)
February 24, 2012

The Hett is screening the independently produced and locally made film, Welcome to Shirley.   The film follows two brothers separated by distance, time, and attitude as they struggle to cope with their father's recent death and prepare for his funeral the day before he is laid to rest. Along the way, we encounter all the members of the Banerhamm family, and discover that perhaps our own families are not quite as dysfunctional as we think. Among the cast members is 2011 McKendree Graduate, Kyle Hintz.