Film & Lecture Series Calendar

September 12 • 6 p.m.

ECC Theatre

Butterfly in the Sky tells the story of Reading Rainbow, the educational show promoting literacy that LeVar Burton hosted for 23 seasons. The new documentary chronicles the journeys of broadcasters, educators and filmmakers who believed television could inspire a lifelong love of reading.

October 8 • 6 p.m. in HH 286

Night of the Living Dead (1968), directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

October 24 • 6 p.m.

ECC Theatre

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry). Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler  (Richard O’Brien).

Ticketed event.

November 20 • 6 p.m.

ECC Theatre

In a disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a painter invites four women into her studio—a politician, an Olympic-hopeful athlete, a domestic violence activist, and a woman who disarms land mines for a living. Through intimate conversations, each woman shares their personal hardships, as well as their imaginations, desires and dreams for the future.

December 12 • 6 p.m. in HH 286

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere  to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.

January 26 • 3 p.m.
Hosted by Neighbors United – Undoing Racism

ECC Theatre

February 6 • 6 p.m. in HH 286

This biographical film tells the story of Shirley Chisholm as she makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

March 26 • 6 p.m.

ECC Theatre

Red-Headed Woman is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Katharine Brush, and a screenplay by Anita Loos. It was directed by Jack Conway and stars Jean Harlow as an ambitious career woman.