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August Top Picks

I am Heath Ledger (2017)

Directed by Adrian Buitenhuis and Derik Murray
This feature length documentary celebrating the life of Heath Ledger provides an intimate look at the actor and icon. Featuring original interviews and showcase footage, get to know Ledger through the lens of his own camera as he films and often performs in his journey.

Queer Cinema : schoolgirls, vampires and gay cowboys

Mennel illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by tracing lesbian and gay representation in films that emerged at historical turning points in the twentieth century. Queer Cinema : schoolgirls, vampires and gay cowboys offers an introduction to gay and lesbian film history, and contributes to an academic discussion about queer subversion of mainstream film.

Mad Max : Fury road (2015)


Director, George Miller.
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Clint Eastwood's Cinema of Trauma

In this collection of new essays, contributors examine his films--from The Outlaw Josey Wales to Sully--as studies on PTSD that expose the social conditions that tolerate or trigger traumatization and (in his more recent work) imagine a way through individual and collective trauma.

Wonder (2017)

Directed by Stephen Chbosky
Based on a bestselling novel, Wonder tells the heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters 5th grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.