Upcoming Events
Film, Television and Interactive Media and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Fund invite you to a special screening of Without Gorky followed by a Q&A with the film's director (and the artist's granddaughter), Cosima Spender:
Thursday, April 19
7:00pm
Wasserman Cinematheque
This event is free and open to the public. Please rsvp to Dona DeLorenzo at delorenz@brandeis.edu.
Past Premieres and Screenings
Nov. 13, 2011
"The Reconstruction of Asa Carter"
With Douglas Newman '94 and Laura Browder, PhD '94, filmmakers
Newman and Browder returned to Brandeis for a screening of their documentary and a Q&A with attendees. The hour-long documentary explores the life and legacy of the best-selling author of “The Outlaw Josey Wales” and “The Education of Little Tree.
Nov. 7, 2011
"Mom & Dad: I Have Something to Tell You"
Azar discussed his film, which was screened as part of the Boston LGBT Film Festival. The movie tells of the journey that parents go through after their children tell them that they are gay.
Oct. 23, 2011
"Hairspray"
With Nikki Blonsky, actress
Blonsky, who grew up in Great Neck, N.Y., spoke about her role as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray," the celebrated play that has been made into a movie. Among the questions she answered, "What was it like to kiss Zac Efron?"
Sept. 8, 2011
“Straw Dogs”
With Rod Lurie, director
Lurie visited campus for a pre-release screening of the remake of the Sam Peckinpah classic. Along with directing, Lurie produced and wrote "Straw Dogs," which is based on the Gordon Williams novel "The Siege of Trencher’s Farm." The movie stars James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgard, James Woods, Dominic Purcell, Willa Holland, Walton Goggins, Rhys Coiro and Laz Alsonso.
May 2, 2011
“Winter's Bone”
With Debra Granik '85, Oscar-nominated director
Video
The movie, which Granik directed and co-wrote, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of 2010. "Winter's Bone" tells the story of a teenage girl (Jennifer Lawrence, who was nominated for an Oscar in the lead actress category) struggling to survive in the drug-infested Ozark Mountains while searching for her missing father.
April 30, 2009
“The Girlfriend Experience”
With Sasha Grey, popular adult film star
Press Release
Steven Soderbergh's drama chronicling the life of a $2000-an-hour sex escort. The film was met with critical acclaim following a test screening at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
March 30, 2009
“Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh” (Katahdin Organization)
With Marta Kauffman '78, Emmy Award-winning producer
Press Release
Video
The story of poet and diarist, Hannah Senesh, captured by the Nazis during World War II while attempting to rescue Jewish people behind enemy lines in her native Hungary. Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen.
Feb. 12, 2009
“Revolutionary Road”
With Michael Shannon, Academy Award nominee
Press Release
Set in the 1950s, the film follows Frank and April Wheeler and their mediocre life in a Connecticut suburb. Unsatisfied with their lives, the couple decides to pursue a new life in France. But when the move sparks fighting, jealousy and obstacles, will the couple's dreams be lost?
Dec. 3, 2008
"Nothing But the Truth" (Yari Film Group)
With Kate Beckinsale ("Serendipity," "Underworld") and
Alan Alda ("M*A*S*H," "The West Wing")
Press Release
Video
Story of newspaper reporter Rachel Armstrong (Beckinsale), who writes a story that reveals the identity of an undercover CIA agent. 
The government demands to know her source, but she and her attorney (Alda) refuse to cooperate, and she is thrown into jail.
Is she doing the right thing? At what cost to herself and her family? And who, incidentally, is she protecting?
Nov. 15, 2008
“What Doesn't Kill You" (Yari Film Group)
With Mark Ruffalo, 2008 Best Actor contender
Press Release
Nov. 13, 2008
“Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classic)
With Melissa Leo, 2008 Best Actress contender
Press Release
Two women — one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances — confront hard ethical choices and seek comfort and justice in a cold world.
Nov. 3, 2008
“The Visitor” (Overture Films)
With Richard Jenkins, 2008 Best Actor contender
Press Release
An intimate drama about a college professor, Walter Vale, who discovers a pair of homeless, illegal aliens in his New York apartment. When he invites the couple — a young Syrian musician and his Senegalese girlfriend — to stay, an unlikely friendship develops.
Oct. 30, 2008
“The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo” (Boston premiere)
With Lisa F. Jackson, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker
Press Release
"The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo," a film produced and directed by Lisa F. Jackson, features the stories of women who have been kidnapped, raped and tortured by soldiers. A civil war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the late 1990s, and tens of thousands of women and girls have fallen victim to brutal acts of sexual violence.
Sept. 9, 2008
“Terror’s Advocate”
With Barbet Schroeder, Award-winning French movie director
Press Release
In this film, Schroeder examines terrorism over the last 50 years through the eyes of notorious French lawyer Jacques Vergès, an attorney known for representing well-known war criminals. Born in 1925, Vergès made a name for himself in the 1950s for defending clients such as Algerian terrorist bomber Djamila Bouhired.
April 17, 2008
“Standard Operating Procedure”
With Errol Morris, Academy Award-winning director
Video
In this film, Morris examines photographs that depict abuse and torture of prisoners held by the United States in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Accusations and photographs of prisoner abuse began circulating in 2004, which led to the removal of more than a dozen American soldiers and officers from duty.
Oct. 22-23, 2007
“Encounters at the End of the World”
With award-winning documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog; discussion with director Errol Morris
Video
The film, which is directed, written and narrated by Herzog, presents the daily lives of Antarctica's human residents -- a small community of adventurers, scientists and researchers who live in McMurdo Station for periods of time each year.
Nov. 7, 2005
“The Good, The Bad And Me: In My Anecdotage”
With legendary actor Eli Wallach; introduced by director Errol Morris
Video
A popular star of stage and screen, Wallach has appeared in more than 70 films and worked with many of the larger-than-life Hollywood legends, including Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck and Henry Fonda.