Film & Media Studies FAMS Cinematheque

Every semester, FAMS faculty host screenings for their students and invite the campus community as well. All screenings are open to anyone who’d like to expand their film knowledge. Please join us!

All of the following films and episodes are shown in Keefe Auditorium at Amherst College and are open to all students. 

SUNDAYS 4:00 - 7:00 PM

MAR 3rd
Gasman (dir. Lynne Ramsay, 1998, UK, 15 mins); 
Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells, 2022, UK, 101 mins);

MAR 30th
--- ------- (AKA The Rock N Roll Movie) (dir. Thom Andersen and Malcom Broderick, 1966, USA, 11 mins); 
Lover's Rock (dir. Steve McQueen, 2020, UK, 70 mins);

APR 7th
Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2017, UK/USA, 107 mins)

APRIL 14th
Black Mother (dir. Khalik Allah, 2018, Jamaica/USA, 87 mins);
Poto and Cabengo (dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1979, Germany/USA, 87 mins);

SUNDAYS 7:00 - 10:00 PM

March 3:
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father (dir. Kurt Kuenne, 2008, 95 mins)

March 10:
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Episode 1 (HBO Max, 2020, 58 mins) 
Unbelievable episodes 1 & 2 (Netflix, 2019, 58 mins; 46 mins)

MONDAYS 7:00 - 10:00 PM

March 4:
Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947, 20 min.)
All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950, 138 min.)
 
March 11:
Rio Grande (John Ford, 1950, 105 min.)
Them! (Gordon Douglas, 1954, 94 min.)

March 25:
A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954, 154 min.)
Excerpt from Brussels Loops (Shirley Clarke and D.A. Pennebaker, 1957, 59 min.)
 
April 1:
(Sofa Compact) (Charles Eames and Ray Eames, 1954, 10.5 min.)
House: After Five Years of Living (Charles Eames and Ray Eames, 1955, 10 min.)
Eames Lounge Chair (Charles Eames and Ray Eames, 1956, 2 min.)
Kaleidoscope Jazz Chair (Charles Eames and Ray Eames, 1960, 6.5 min.)
No Down Payment (Martin Ritt, 1957, 105 min.)
 
April 8:
Survival Under Atomic Attack (U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1951, 9 min.)
Duck and Cover (U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1952, 9 min.)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955, 111 min.)
Golf (Raphael Montañez Ortiz, 1957, 1 min.)
Cowboy and “Indian” Film (Raphael Montañez Ortiz, 1957-8, 2 min.)
Newsreel (Raphael Montañez Ortiz, 1958, 2 min.)
 
April 22:
Pull My Daisy (Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, 1959, 30 min.)
Guns of the Trees (Jonas Mekas, 1961, 85 min.)
 
April 29:
The Cry of Jazz (Edward Bland, 1959, 34 min.)
Integration Report 1 (Madeline Anderson, 1960, 24 min.)
The Cool World (Shirley Clarke, 1964, 105 min.)

May 6 
The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie, 1961, 72 min.)

The following films were screened during the Fall '23 semester:

• The Goddess (Wu Yonggang, 1934, 85 min.) 
• The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie, 1961, 72 min.) 
• Missing (Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick, 2023, 111 min.) 
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer, Daniel Garber, Jordan Sjol, 2023, 104 min.) 
• ​​Neptune Frost (Saul Williams and Anisia Useyman, 2021, 105 min.) 

The following screenings were hosted by Film & Media Studies courses in the spring '23 semester.

• Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952, 115 mins)
• Nanook Revisited (dir. Claude Massot, 1990, 55 mins)
• Nanook of the North (dir. Robert Flaherty, 1922, 79 mins)
• Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 129 mins)
• Cleo de 5 à 7 (Cleo, from 5 to 7) (dir. Agnes Varda, 1962, 90 mins)
• Tonsler Park (dir. Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017, 80 mins)
• Chronique d’un Etée (“Chronicle of a Summer,” dir. Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, 90 mins)
• The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927, Esfir Shub, 88 mins)
• Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele, 2017, 103 mins.) 
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) (dir. Céline Sciamma, 2019, 131 mins.) 
• Yours in Sisterhood (dir. Irene Lusztig, 2018, 101 mins.) 
• Rūzī kih zan shudam (The Day I Became A Woman) (dir. Marziyeh Meshkini, 2000, 74 mins.) 
• Everything Everywhere All At Once (dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022,140 mins. )

The following films were screened during the Spring '22 semester.

L’Age d’Or (Luis Buñuel, 1930, 60 min.)

Christopher Strong (Dorothy Arzner, 1933, 78 min.)

Frankenstein (dir. James Whale, US, 1931)

Captain Marvel (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, 2019, 123 min.)

All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony, 2021, 109 mins)

Gothic (dir. Ken Russell, UK, 1986)

Looking for Langston (Isaac Julien, 1989, 45 min.), and The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996, 90 min.)

Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942, 117 min.)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (dir. Victor Fleming, US, 1941)

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, 112 min.)

The Goddess (Wu Yonggang, 1934, 85 min.)

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (Brett Story, 2016, 90 mins)

Swing! (Oscar Micheaux, 1939, 69 min); Screening for Intimate Film Cultures

Dracula (dir. Tod Browning, Universal, 1931)

Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 98 min.)

Gaslight (dir. George Cukor, MGM, 1944)

Rebecca (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, United Artists, 1940)

The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie, 1961, 72 min.)

The Infiltrators (Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, 2019, 95 mins); 

I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis, 1994, 110 min)

The Haunting (dir. Robert Wise, UK, 1963

Shared Resources (Jordan Lord, 2021, 98 mins); Screening for After COPS:  Police, Media, and Prison Abolition 

Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele, 2017)

NŨHŨ YÃGMŨ YÕG HÃM: This Land is Our Land! (Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero, 2020, 70 mins)