PREVIEW: Let The Right One In

I don’t know about you, but I refuse to let go of Halloween right after October 31st. The people who start maniacally Christmas shopping and decorating with Rudolph and snowmen are psychopaths. Give the rest of us Halloween purists some time to grieve, ok?

It seems there is a fellow Halloween lover planning events on campus, because student-run theater group the Rude Mechanicals is performing Let The Right One In this weekend!

The play is adapted from a Swedish film of the same name, telling the story of a shy boy who makes friends with the strange new neighbor girl, who just might be connected to a series of brutal homicides in the town.

Let The Right One In is presented at the Lydia Mendelssohn theater at the following times:

Friday, November 2 at 8:00 pm

Saturday, November 3 at 8:00 pm

Sunday, November 4 at 2:00 pm

Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, and FREE with your Passport to the Arts.

Come on out to support Halloween’s immortal soul.

PREVIEW: Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World (Wadjda)

We are often exposed to far too little of the world, even in our self-proclaimed melting-pot of a country. This fall film series is trying to help solve this problem, by presenting several recently-made movies from the Islamic world. If you need a better reason to show up, it’s free!

This week on display is a film called Wadjda, in which a very determined young girl enters a Quran-reciting contest for money to buy a bicycle. Released in 2012, this is amazingly the first feature-length film created by a female Saudi director (Haifaa Al Mansour).

Come watch with me (really, sit with me–I’ll be the one in the lion hat) this Tuesday, October 23 at 7 PM in the East Quad Benzinger Library.