Film Club at WIU
Fall 2015
Screenings: Room 220
7 PM (Simpkins)
September 9
Moon (2009, UK)
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially
personal encounter toward the end of his threeyear stint on the Moon, where he, working
alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth
parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our
planet's power problems.(IMDB)
Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Sam Rockwell
September 23
M*A*S*H (1970, US)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks
to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.(IMDB)
Director: Robert Altman
Staring: Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Tom Skerrit
October 7
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, US)
Several people are hunted by a cruel serial
killer who kills his victims in their dreams. When
the survivors are trying to find the reason for being
chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill
them as soon as they fall asleep. (IMDB)
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny
Depp, Robert Englund
October 14
The Crazies (1973, US)
The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus
that causes death and permanent insanity in those
infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town. (IMDB)
Director: George A. Romero
Starring: Lane Carroll, Will Macmillian, Harold Wayne Jones
October 21
City of the Living Dead (1980, Italy)
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell
after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open,
allowing the dead to rise from the grave. (IMDB)
Director: Lucio Fulci
Starring: Cristopher George, Catriona MaCall,
Carlo de Mejo
October 28
What we do in the Shadows (2014, New Zealand)
Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding
that modern life has them struggling with the mundane –like
paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get
into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts. (IMDB)
Directors: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Cori GonzalezMacuer
November 11
Senna (2010, UK, France, Brazil, US)
This fast-paced documentary profiles Ayrton Senna, one
of the greatest drivers in the history of Formula One
racing, and a hero in his native Brazil. Using archival
footage, director
Asif Kapadia examines the idealistic Senna's inspiring
legend. (Netflix)
Director: Asif Kapadia
Starring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost,
Frank Williams
December 2
Samurai Cop (1990, US)
Joe Marshall and Frank Washington are two police detectives
who must stop the ruthless activities of the Katana, a renegade
Yakuza gang composed of violent and sadistic killers who want
to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles. (IMDB)
Director: Amir Shervan
Starring: Matthew Karedas, Mark Frazer, Robert Z’dar