LSC Presents the 23rd Annual Sci-Fi Marathon

All movies in 35mm!!

Saturday, January 27, 2001 in 26-100

Schedule

7:00 pm	The Wizard of Speed and Time (short) The Matrix
9:30 pm	George Lucas In Love (short) Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
11:40 pm	Pizza Break (opportunity to order before Phantom Menace)
12:30 am	Gravity (short) Ghostbusters
2:40 am	Classic SF Trailers Including the new Lord of the Rings trailer
3:00 am	Hardware Wars (short) It Came From Outer Space In 3D!! (glasses provided)
4:40 am	Rod Flash Conquers Infinity (short) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7:00 am	Grinning Evil Death (short) Aliens

Special Sunday Double Feature Replay

7:00 pm	The Matrix

9:30 pm	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Admissions

Marathon admission is $5.00.
One child 12 or under gets in free with each adult admission.
Sunday replay "Double Feature" is $5.00, for one or both.

The Matrix
(R, 1999) 136 min

Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life--in what he thinks is the year 1999--until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life--the "Matrix"--to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson, pursued constantly by "Agents" (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as "The One" who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth.

George Lucas In Love (short)
(1999) 8 min

A spoof of Shakespeare in Love, George Lucas In Love shows us how a young George Lucas might have come up with so many of the ideas in the Star Wars trilogy, when inspired by a young woman he meets in a screening room at USC....

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
(PG, 1999) 133 min

As imminent conflict brews between the powerful Trade Federation and the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi travel to Naboo to warn the Queen of the galactic fallout which is to follow. Eventually, Naboo is invaded forcing the Jedis to evacuate the planet with the Queen and her court. They travel to the desert planet of Tatooine where they meet a slave boy called Anakin Skywalker who is evidently one with the Force. They enlist his help in fighting the war, while the Jedis confront one of the Dark Jedis behind the invasion, Darth Maul, while his master Darth Sidious continues to lead the invasion as a "phantom" behind the scenes.

Gravity (short)
(1976)

In this spoof of public-school educational films, young Mary Jane asks the question, "What is gravity?" After asking various (dysfunctional) family members without success, she then asks Dr. Waxman of the Karl LaFong Foundation for Gravitational Research (motto: "heads in the clouds and feet on the ground"), who explains that gravity is caused by a substance named GR12. Unfortunately, the world is running out of GR12. The cartoon character Jiminy Gravity then explains (in song) how we can conserve gravity with such practices as sitting on the floor and carrying helium balloons.

Ghostbusters
(PG, 1984) 107 min

Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple.

Hardware Wars (short)
(1977) 13 min

You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll kiss three bucks goodbye!
A parody of Star Wars, presented in the form of a movie preview. Young Fluke Starbucker, under the tutelage of Auggie "Ben" Doggie, learns to master the power of the Force, while teaming up with Ham Salad to rescue Princess Anne-Droid and aid her fight against the evil Empire.

It Came From Outer Space
(Not Rated, 1953) 81 min

John Putnam and Ellen watch a great fireball going down near a mine. Both are the only ones, who believe the "thing" not to be a meteor but an alien starship. In the following days, people disappear and return, obviously being manipulated in a strange way. After a while, the sheriff becomes distrustful. He and his men enter the mine. But Putnam hopes to reach a peaceful solution and enters the starship ...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(PG, 1977) 135 min

Planes reported missing in 1945 suddenly appear in the Mojave desert. A commercial flight is buzzed by a 'bright' object that the pilot 'wouldn't know how to describe'. Roy Neary, while working one night, has a Close Encounter... The US Government determine where the visitors plan to land and create an elaborate cover-up to keep people away. However, a group of people, including Neary, share a vision which draws them to the place and a meeting with new, and old, friends.

Grinning Evil Death (short)
(1990) 7 min

A blood-spattered tale of modern day pest control. A twisted little cartoon about a boy who becomes a superhero and fights off a giant Metal bug from space.

Aliens
(PG, 1986) 137 min

57 years after her ordeal with an extraterrestrial creature, Ellen Ripley is rescued by a deep salvage team during her hypersleep. When she discovers that transmissions from a colony that has since settled on the alien planet suddenly stop, Ripley is offered a chance to team up with a group of marines to descend on the planet and investigate the alien presence. Determined to end the memories of the alien creature, Ripley agrees to the offer and is once again thrown back into her living nightmare.