Friday Night in the Forum Film Series - University of Southern Indiana

Join the College of Liberal Arts and Eric Braysmith, lecturer in Liberal Arts, for the Friday Night in the Forum film series. The films are shown in their original languages, with English subtitles, and aspect ratios in Forum 1 (FA1) in the Forum Wing of the Wright Administration Building on the USI campus. The venue features stadium seating, digital projection, and digital surround sound. Immediately following each film, Eric Braysmith will lead an informal discussion. For more information, see the Friday Night in the Forum Facebook page.

The film series is free and open to the public.

Getting Here

All showings take place in Forum I, accessible via the first floor of the Wright Administration Building. Parking is available in Lot B, located across University Boulevard.

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Upcoming Screenings

Films begin promptly at 7 p.m. | All films include English subtitles

Fall 2024

November 1

Playtime (1967) Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.

November 8

Fallen Leaves (2023) In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.

November 15

La Dolce Vita (1960) In 1959/1960 Rome, Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) is a writer and journalist, the worst kind of journalist--a tabloid journalist. His job is to try to catch celebrities in compromising or embarrassing situations. He tends to get quite close to his subjects--especially when they're beautiful women. Two such subjects are local heiress Maddalena (Anouk Aimee), and Swedish superstar-actress Sylvia (Anita Ekberg), with both of whom he has affairs despite being engaged to Emma (Yvonne Furneaux), a clingy, insecure, nagging, melodramatic woman. Despite his extravagant, pleasure-filled lifestyle, he is wondering if maybe a simpler life wouldn't be better.

November 22

A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) Identical twins Oliver and Oswald Deuce lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. The brothers, who are zoologists, become obsessed with the death and decay of animals. They both have a relationship with Alba, the driver of the crashed car, who loses first one leg then the other.

December 6

Seven Samurai (1954) A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village

Past Screenings

All films include English subtitles

Spring 2024

March 29

Anatomy of a Murder (1959) An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

April 5

Kurosowa's Dreams (1990, Japan) A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

April 12

Pi (1998) A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

April 19

Decision to Leave (2022, South Korea) A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.

April 26

EO (2022, Poland) Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.

Fall 2023

November 3

TUSK (2014, 1:42 min) When podcaster Wallace travels to Canada to interview someone, he winds up meeting a strange man named Howe who has many stories to tell about his past life during his interview. Wallace wakes up the next day finding out Howe isn't the person he thought he was. Howe has plans to surgically and mentally turn Wallace into a walrus.

November 10

THE LAST MOVIE (1971, 1:48 min) After a film shoot in Peru is shut down when an actor is killed, the unit wrangler decides to give up film-making and stay. But his dreams of a simple life are cut short when the local priest asks him to help: the villagers are killing one another by re-enacting scenes from the film because they don't understand that a film's violence is not real.

November 17

PRIDE (2014, 1:59 min) In 1984, 20-year-old closet gay Joe hesitantly arrives in London from Bromley for his first Gay Pride march and is taken under the collective wing of a group of gay men and Lesbian Steph, who meet at the Soho bookshop of flamboyant Jonathan and his Welsh partner Gethin. Not only are gays being threatened by Thatcher, but also the miners are on strike in response to her pit closures, and Northern Irish activist Mark Ashton believes that gays and miners should show solidarity. Almost by accident, a minibus-load of gays find themselves in the Welsh village of Onllwyn in the Dulais valley, and through their sincere fundraising and Jonathan's nifty disco moves persuade most of the community that they are on the same side. When a bigot tries to sabotage the partnership with a tabloid smear Mark turns it back on her with a hugely successful benefit concert to which most of the villagers, now thoroughly in tune with their gay friends, turn up. The miners are defeated and return to work, but at the Pride march the following year a vast contingent of miners show up to repay their comrades with their show of support.

December 1

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022, 2:27 min) In Ruben Östlund's wickedly funny Palme d'Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.

December 8

ON THE ROCKS (2020, 1:36 min) All it took was one long, passionate, late-night kiss on the lips to make novelist and mother-of-two Laura suspicious of her career-driven, high-reaching husband, Dean. Now, as the uncomfortable feelings of doubt and mistrust start creeping up on her, fanned by the horrible idea that the love of her life may be cheating on her, Laura reluctantly enlists the help of the impeccably dressed, semi-retired art dealer, Felix: her suave, mischievous, and effortlessly charming philanderer father. But, even though it is sometimes exhausting, we all want to be loved. And amid a persistent writer's block, Felix's innocent flirts with random women, Martini-fuelled lunches, and high-speed car chases in Manhattan's neon-lit streets, Laura needs to know. Is her life falling apart?

Spring 2023

April 7

THE GOOD BOSS (2021, Spain, 1:56 min) Awaiting a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence, the owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business tries to resolve any problems from his workers in enough time.

April 14

HATCHING (2022, Finland/Sweden, 1:31 min) A young gymnast, who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks them all.

April 21

AFTER LIFE (1998, Japan, 1:59 min) After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.

April 28

OFFICIAL COMPETITION (2021, Spain, 1:55 min) A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.

May 5

SOUL KITCHEN (2009, Germany, 1:39 min) In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.