Thursday nights 8:30 – 11:00 pm Grant Auditorium
Bored? Need to get out of the house? The Department of Anthropology will be screening features films Thursday nights 8:30 – 11:00 in Grant Auditorium in the Falk College building, adjacent to the Carrier Dome. Classic films, the movies deal with popular images of archaeology and archaeological themes and can be used as extra credit in designated anthropology classes. Introductions to the films provide background and context. Many of the films have been selected because they are not commonly available or available in quality format via online and streaming sources. But regardless of their availability, this is an opportunity to see feature films on the big screen. If you are interested in this opportunity for extra credit in an anthropology class, please contact your professor or teaching assistant. See you at the movies! Chris DeCorse
Schedule of movies:
October 22: Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark (Paramount, 1981)
Winner of five academy awards, this is the first film in the Indiana Jones
film franchise; an American action-adventure film serial directed by Steven
Spielberg, based on a story by George Lucas, starring Harrison Ford. Set in
1936, Ford portrays Indiana Jones, a globe-trotting archaeologist, vying
with the Nazis to recover the lost Ark of the Covenant, a relic said to make
an army invincible.
October 29: Caveman (MGM, 1981):
An American slapstick comedy film starring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid,
Shelley Long and Barbara Bach. In the course of adventures, cave dwellers
fight off dinosaurs, discover sedative drugs, fire, invent cooking, music,
weapons, and learn how to walk upright. Bashed by critics, the film remains
a cult classic.
November 12: Iceman (Paramount, 1984):
Anthropologist Stanley Shephard (played by Timothy Hutton) is brought to
an arctic base where the body of a prehistoric man, imbedded in ice for
40,000 years, has been discovered. Scientists are able to resuscitate the
"iceman", who is placed in a simulated environment for study. Confused
and recognizing his strange surroundings, scientists see him as a source of
information on the body's adaptability, fire walking, and the possibility of
freezing the sick until a cure is discovered. Can the Iceman survive in this
modern world?
November 19: The Lost City of Z (Paramount Pictures and Plan B
Entertainment, 2016)
A biographical adventure drama. In 1905, Percy Fawcett (played by Charlie
Hunnam) follows an 18th century text that describes a city deep in the
Amazonian jungle, a place that Fawcett calls "the Lost City of Z". Supported
by the Royal Geographical Society, Fawcett led two expeditions to find the
lost city; on the second of which he and his son disappeared. The lost City
of Z may actually be the archaeological site of Kuhikugu, near the
headwaters of the Xingu River, discovered by Westerners in 1925. The site
contains extensive ruins and earthworks.