LSC Event Descriptions

September 30 & October 1, 2006

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Rated R
110 minutes

 Brick (2005)
September 30, 2006 at 7:00 and 10:00 pm in 26-100
October 1, 2006 at 10:00 pm in 26-100

Bueller meets Bogart in this genre-busting first feature film by director Rian Johnson, and winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision in 2005. Weaving together the conventions and even the hard-boiled dialogue of film noir with the angst of teenage dramas, the film follows Brendan, a loner and quintessential outsider, who becomes consumed with finding his ex-girlfriend Emily after she vanishes following a panicked phone call. With his only peer, the Brain, as a fellow shamus, and keeping the movie's police chief stand-in, the school's assistant vice principal, only partially informed, Brendan encounters all the usual suspects (including a femme fatale!) while diligently tracing Emily's movements.

"This year's Donnie Darko? Brick is in a class of its own, showing neither a hint of pretension nor convolution."
      -- Joe Utichi, Film Focus. Read this review.

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