Consistently ranked by critics as one of the best films ever made, and introducing none other than James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vader) in his first motion picture feature, Dr. Strangelove is not to be missed. Nominated for four Academy Awards, and winner of a 1965 Hugo Award. Short preceding movie: More (1998) 6 minutes What price success A worker on a tedious assembly line tinkers in his spare time, and finally succeeds in perfecting his invention, which allows people to see life through rose-colored glasses. A tremendously innovative short film, the first clay-animated film photographed in the tremendous clarity and depth of large-format IMAX, More was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Animated Film.
Trailer for Kubrick's _Lolita_ Director Stanley Kubrick ranks among the legends of cinema. But how do you make a movie out of Lolita in strait-laced 1962? A very well-known and hilarious trailer, this will get you in the Kubrick mood for Dr. Strangelove. 1/26 2:15am BREAK 1/26 2:45am Special Feature: Star Trek memorabilia Between the end of the television series and the first Star Trek film, the cast of the show branched into various occupations, including singing. Yes, that's right, singing. Join a crowd of your fellow MIT students in laughter (or, if you prefer, a sing-along) as we play songs from the classic recordings of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. We will also feature audio clips from LSC lectures given by Star Trek affiliates. 1/26 3:00am Star Trek: The Ultimate Computer (1967) 50 minutes (16mm) Tightly edited, action-packed, and incorporating practically every special effects shot produced for the series, this episode ranks as one of the classics. Captain Kirk and a skeleton crew stay on board the Enterprise as the controls are handed over to M5, an advanced multitronic computer designed by the same man who made the duotronic breakthrough that made the Enterprise possible. But when the computer starts destroying Starfleet ships and puts up a force field around it to prevent itself from being disconnected, the crew must find a way to stop the computer before it kills thousands. 1/26 3:50am BREAK 1/26 4:20am Attack of the Killer Tomatos sing-along Follow the inevetable bouncing lazer pointers as you join your fellow audience members in singing this classic science fiction theme song. 1/26 4:30am 1/26 (Special replay showing) 10pm Innerspace (1987) (PG) 120 minutes (Dolby Stereo SR) An Adventure of Incredible Proportions. Director Steven Spielberg introduces us to Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid), a cocky pilot who is taking part in a miniaturization experiment. He is shrunk and placed in a submarine-like craft in preparation for injection into a rabbit. When techno-terrorists break into the lab to steal the technology, one of the fleeing scientists grabs part of the material needed to restore Tuck and the syringe containing him. The scientist, dying from a bullet wound, flees into the mall where he injects Tuck into hypochondriac Jack Putter (Martin Short). By linking into Jack's systems Tuck convinces him to go back to the lab only to discover that the other ingredient to the restorative was stolen. What follows is a thrilling race against time as Tuck's oxygen supply is depleted and his only hope may be a lead from reporter Lydia Maxwell (Meg Ryan), Tuck's former girlfriend. Short preceding movie: Animato (1979) (16mm) 3 minutes This short is the award winning precursor to Mike Jittlov's famous Wizard of Speed and Time. Models glide in like an ultra-slick fashion parade with an easybeat enjoyment to an uptempo Petula Clark song. Our favorite guy in the green jacket floats through Los Angeles while UFO's are buzzing jets, rockets lifting out of Hollywood monuments, into galloping sight/sound transcendence and a whirl wind trip to space and sheer joy! 1/26 6:40am Bonus for audience members who stay through marathon It isn't easy to stay through the Science-Fiction Marathon, so those in the audience at the conclusion of _Innerspace_ will get a small reward for their endurance. (You could sleep through the Marathon and come back in the morning, but what would be the fun in that?) 1/31 8pm 2/1 8pm Silence of the Lambs (1991) (R) 118 minutes To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman. Rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is assigned to help find and rescue a missing woman from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to incarcerated psychiatrist, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter, who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator, might have the answers to their questions to help locate the killer. Clarice must gain Lecter's confidence before they can get from him the information they need.