Multicultural Film Festival

January 19, 2010–March 2, 2010

 A seven-week multicultural film festival will kick off Jan. 19 with a screening of “The Long Walk Home” at 8 p.m. in Charlie’s Coffee House on campus. The 1990 film stars Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek.

Other films in the series, each showing on successive Tuesdays at the coffee house, include “Malcolm X,” “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,” “Rosewood,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Schindler's List” and “Angela's Ashes.”

 

Schedule

Jan. 19: The Long Walk Home, 1990
Directed by Richard Pearce, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek

Jan. 26: Malcolm X, 1992
Directed by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett

Feb. 2:  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, 1967
Directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn

Feb. 9: Rosewood, 1997
Directed by John Singleton, starring Ving Rhames, Jon Voight and Don Cheadle

Feb. 16: Blazing Saddles, 1974
Directed by Mel Brooks, starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder and Slim Pickens

Feb. 23: Schindler's List, 1993
Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes

March 2: Angela's Ashes, 1999
Directed by Alan Parker, starring Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle and Joe Breen

8 p.m.   Charlie's Coffee House