UCI Free Film Series

Irvine, United States

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+1 949-824-6494
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University of California, Irvine - Summer Session Humanities Instructional Building Room 100, Bldg. #610, Irvine, CA, 92616
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1.7 miMichelson - Harvard
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Today 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Local time (Irvine) 11:44 AM Friday, November 29, 2024

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Monday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuesday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday –
Sunday –

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The topic for this year’s free film series is Romantic Comedies: Couples & Complaints, curated by Jenna Weinman, PhD candidate in Visual Studies. «Although romantic comedies are beloved, or at least well-​known, for their delightfully predictable happy endings, this series focuses on the complaints and frustrations that inform the couples’ conflicts and compromises. How do romantic comedies work to recognize and absorb various tensions, anxieties, and desires circulating within a particular historical moment? In what ways are certain intimate expectations, struggles, and thrills recycled across different historical contexts?» Visit the website for more information, including the list of this summer’s films.

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2 reviews of UCI Free Film Series

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Place rating: 5
Anaheim, CA
I highly recommend this free series! Grad students decide upon the theme and which movies to show, and introduce each film with thoughtful comments. Free snacks are provided. I went to see Rear Window, and it was fun to get caught up with the rest of audience, gasping with suspence and terror.
Place rating: 5
Hackensack, NJ
I’m an LA girl who is now living in Irvine. It was a tough transition in a way. I started missing venues like Spaceland or 24-​hour joints like Canter’s. Or gems like the Largo. It makes me miss home in this cookie-​cutter land that I now call «home.»
So how do I get through this «homesickness?»
One way is the Thursday Free Film Series at UCI. It’s amazing how something as simple as this can make me feel so refreshed.
Here’s how it works:
1) Get in your car and park near UCI. I park near the free parking spots near the TJ in the University Center. Or else, you still be stuck paying for UCI parking. I don’t know how much it costs because I’m never paid it.
2) Walk to HIB 100. It’s near the new Starbucks on campus and near the Student Store. It won’t be hard to find. I didn’t even go to school here.
3) Sign-​in and grab you FREE popcorn, candy (I got a bag of Whoopers and some mints), and bottle of water. Take a bookmark that lists their films for the summer.
4) Grab a seat in the lecture room and prepare to cry, smile, or frown because their selection of films are eclectic and quite good. They have themes like «Youth and Coming-​of-​Age,» the current one, but clearly, there’s a good variety. Last week was a movie about the Mexican tradition of Quinceanera, and this week is Spike Lee’s Crooklyn.
I loved the movie «Quinceanera» and even though I know it’s a lecture room (I even lifted up the portable tabletop on the side), I cried during the movie.
Okay, there’s more.
It’s a bit like a film fest screening. There’s a moderator who fills you in the movie you’re watching, but he/​she doesn’t give away too much. So that’s great. Then afterwards, you can stay for an informal discussion of the film outside. I didn’t stay, but I noticed they had coffee and some cookies or pastries ready for guests who decided to hang out afterwards.
It was a very cool event. Makes everything a little less cookie-​cutter, thank goodness.