There is a certain point in a college student’s relationship with his/her dorm room during which general cleanliness and civility is abandoned in favor of dirty sheets and dust bunnies. In my college career, I have noticed that this fateful moment tends to occur about a month into second semester–yes, around this very time of the year. Snow boots have rendered rugs wet and crusty, and that oh-so-college Grey Goose graveyard on the top of your shelf looks more like a recycling collection than a homage to partying. Once-pressed plaid shirts lie lifeless and kinked in odd places, and a pair of foreign underwear from a fuzzy romantic encounter sits forgotten under your bed. Your laundry basket looks like Mount Everest. And worst of all–the corners of that film series poster that you tacked up fervently and eagerly a few weeks ago have now curled and cowered away from your filthy, filthy lifestyle. Or maybe I just hate cleaning my room.
At any rate, if this sounds at all familiar, or even if you just feel bad for me, it’s certainly time you abandon your unsanitary abode and make your way to the Goldsmith Family Cinema for some good, clean fun. It’s a space free of loose papers, sticky spill spots, and that one Bob Marley poster that you’re really beginning to regret putting up. So if you can locate that film series poster on your wall, brush it off and let it save you from your dorm room blues. Your room ain’t gonna clean itself, but the film series will surely keep your mind tidy. In the spirit of neatness, I’ll keep the film descriptions to five words.
THE LAST MISTRESS
Tomorrow, 2/9, 8PM, $5
2007. France/Italy.
Dir: Catherine Breillat. With Asia Argento, Fu’ad Aattou. 104 min.
“Suspiria” director’s daughter: way hot.
FIVE HOURS FROM PARIS
Thursday, 2/10, 8PM, FREE
2009. Israel.
Dir: Leonid Prudovsky. With Vladimir Freedman. 90 min.
Scared cabbie falls in love.
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
Friday, 2/11, 8PM, $5
1975. UK.
Dir: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones. With several very silly people. 91 min.
Bring out your fucking dead.
WALKABOUT
Saturday, 1/12, 8PM, FREE
1971. UK.
Dir: Nicholas Roeg. With Jeremy Agutter, David Gulpill. 100 min.
Slip into this Aussie trance.
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