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December 16, 2011
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Winter Film Series set for 2012
Jackson Community College’s 36th Annual Winter Film Series will begin Jan. 9, with a variety of movies planned that explore the art of filmmaking.
Each year JCC presents the Winter Film Series at the Michigan Theatre in downtown Jackson. The series is part of the College’s English 210 Introduction to Film class, and the community is welcome. Films begin at 7:15 p.m. on Mondays, and the cost is $6.50 per adult, $4.50 for seniors and students with identification. Contact the Michigan Theatre at 517.783.0962, or e-mail theatre@michigantheatre.org.
This year’s series includes:
- Jan. 9: Monkey Business (1952) There’s something in the water in this comic romp with Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe and Ginger Rogers. Employees at a chemical company unknowingly sample a fountain of youth elixir, with hilarious results!
- Jan. 16: Moneyball (2011) The story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. Brad Pitt, Robin Wright star.
- Jan. 23: Thelma and Louise (1991) Director Ridley Scott’s full-throttle adventure features Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as accidental outlaws on a desperate flight across the Southwest.
- Jan. 30: The Graduate (1967) Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), who happens to be the wife of his father’s business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine.
- Feb. 6: Dial M for Murder (1954) Suave tennis player (Ray Milland) plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who is having an affair. Amazingly, the wife manages to stave off her attacker, a twist of fate that challenges the hubby's talent for improvisation.
- Feb. 13: Super 8 (2011) From producer Steven Spielberg, in the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin.
- Feb. 20: Pulp Fiction (1994) The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Quentin Tarantino directs.
- March 5: 2012 Oscar Nominee
- March 12: Dirty Dancing (1987) Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances (Baby) falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher. Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Jerry Orbach star.
- March 19: In the Heat of the Night (1967) While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman. Rod Steiger also stars.
- March 26: Hell and Back Again (2011) Documentary about one soldier's struggle from the battlefields of Afghanistan to readjusting to home life again in North Carolina.
- April 2: This is Spinal Tap (1984) Spinal Tap, the world's loudest band, is chronicled by hack documentarian Marti DeBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
- April 9: 2012 Oscar Nominee
