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LU Arts Exclusive Film Premiere… At Your Convenience!

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If you’re looking to take a break from moving into your new digs on campus next Thursday (24th September), why not pop along to the Cope Auditorium for a fabulous free premiere of the acclaimed comedy-thriller Convenience.

LU Arts, in collaboration with LSU, are giving you the chance to view Convenience before it’s release into cinemas. Join cult actor Verne Troyer (Austin Powers) and producer Ray Panthaki (28 Days Later) for an exclusive Q&A session after the showing, and there will be a competition to win tickets to the film’s premiere at the BAFTAs.

Described as Clerks meets A Dog Day Afternoon, this eagerly anticipated independent British film won a BAFTA Cymru for ‘Best Breakthrough’ and boasts an impressive cast including  Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), BAFTA Winner Vicky McClure (This is England), and BAFTA Nominee Adeel Akhtar (Four Lions). You can watch a trailer for the movie here.

The event kicks off at 5pm – no booking is necessary, though you may need to turn up early to beat the rush!

E.L. Doctorow 1931-2015

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15213777537_345c43d100_zThe award-winning American historical novelist E.L. Doctorow has died, aged 84.

Born in 1931, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow began his literary career as a script-reader for Columbia Pictures, and his first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, published in 1960, was inspired by the many western stories he had to read in this time.

He gained widespread critical acclaim for his fourth novel Ragtime, which won him the first of three US National Book Critics Circle Awards in 1975. Billy Bathgate (1989) and The March (2005) also received the award. In total Doctorow wrote ten novels, four of which were filmed. Ragtime was also successfully adapted as a stage musical in 1998.

We have copies of several of Doctorow’s novels in our literature section on Level 2, including Ragtime, of which we also hold a copy of the 1981 Oscar-nominated cinema adaption among our DVD collection in the High Demand section.

You can also find out a lot more about his life and works by visiting Literature Online, our popular English & American literature database which covers over 300,000 works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.

E.L. Doctorow at the PEN American Centre Literary Awards 2014, courtesy of Beowulf Sheehan, reproduced under CC License from Flickr.

Eden Flix Presents… No Impact Man

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logoNext Wednesday (27th May) at 3pm the Cope Auditorium will be showing No Impact Man, the latest in the Eden Flix series of socially themed contemporary documentaries.

In November 2006, author Colin Beavan, his wife, Michelle Conlin and their two year-old daughter, Isabella began the No Impact Man project. The goal: to make as little environmental impact as possible while living on lower 5th Avenue in Manhattan.

Before the project began, Colin and his family were SUV driving, fast food eating New Yorkers who would assuage their guilt with some good old American retail therapy. But Colin grew weary of his political convictions not lining up with his personal habits. So, in order to “walk the talk,” he decided for his next book to embrace a carbon-free, environmental friendly lifestyle and call himself “No Impact Man.” For starters, that would mean no trash, no electricity, no cars, no TV, and no buying anything new for an entire year.

The documentary feature film, No Impact Man, by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein, presents an intimate emotional portrait of a couple struggling through a severe and protracted change in their way of life. Over the course of one year, the filmmakers documented what happens to Colin and Michelle’s emotional life as they alter their entire lifestyle. How do they cope with the constant stress and intermittent crises of such a rigorous way of living? Or, perhaps, when life is pared down, do some things become unexpectedly better and even easier?

The showing is free, but booking is necessary – to do that, visit this link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eden-flix-screening-no-impact-man-tickets-13414578365

Eden Flix Presents… 911

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logoThe Eden Flix series of free environmentally-themed documentary films gets term off to a controversial start next Wednesday (29th April).

911: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out presents persuasive viewpoints of over 1,700 architects and engineers who believe the unsettling theory that scientific forensic evidence points to explosive controlled demolition of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on September 11, 2001.

The film is being shown in the Design Studio at the Keith Green Building at 3pm on Wednesday 29th April. The showing is free, but booking is necessary – simply visit the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eden-flix-screening-9-11-explosive-evidence-experts-speak-out-tickets-13414453993

Eden Flix Presents… The Yes Men Fix the World

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logoAnother in the free series of Eden Flix environmentally-themed films is being shown at the Design Studio this Wednesday (4th March).

The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story that follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Along the way the duo discover the culprits behind the cult of greed, and in a wildly uplifting ending, they find a way for everyone to defeat the cult and save civilization from its own worst excesses.

The showing starts at 3pm in the Design Studio in the Keith Green Building. Admittance is free, but you will need to book first. To do this follow this link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eden-flix-screening-the-yes-men-fix-the-world-tickets-13414153093

Eden Flix Presents… Gasland 2

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The Cope Auditorium is the venue for the latest in the Eden Flix series of environmentally-themed films this Wednesday.

In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar®-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide).

GASLAND PART II, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, shows how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most important environmental issues facing our nation today. The film argues that the gas industry’s portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the earth’s climate with the potent greenhouse gas, methane. In addition the film looks at how the powerful oil and gas industries are in Fox’s words “contaminating our democracy”.

The showing starts at 3pm in the Cope Auditorium. Admittance is free, but you will need to book first. To do this follow this link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eden-flix-screening-gasland-part-ii-tickets-13281524397

Eden Flix Presents… Four Horsemen

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Next Wednesday, 18th February at 3pm the Design Studio in the Keith Green Building will be hosting another hard-hitting social documentary as part of the Eden Flix series.

Four Horsemen is the debut feature from director Ross Ashcroft which reveals the fundamental flaws in the economic system which has brought our civilization to the brink of disaster.

The film pulls no punches in describing the consequences of continued inaction – but its message is one of hope. If more people can equip themselves with a better understanding of how the world really works, then the systems and structures that condemn billions to poverty or chronic insecurity can at last be overturned. Solutions to the multiple crises facing humanity have never been more urgent, but equally, the conditions for change have never been more favourable

Eden Flix are a series of highly acclaimed, thought-provoking and inspirational documentaries on issues related to engineering, design and social consciousness sponsored by the Centre for Engineering and Design Education (CEDE) as part of the Engineering and Design Educators Network (EDEN) series of events.

Screenings are free for all Loughborough students and staff, but booking is necessary. To do that, visit this link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eden-flix-screening-four-horsemen-tickets-13414020697

PHIR Political Film Series

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Every Tuesday evening (except Monday 2nd March) in Semester Two starting this week the Department of Politics, History and International Relations (PHIR) are showing a series of movies in the broad category of ‘political films’. All will be introduced by a lecturer or PhD researcher from the department and will be followed afterwards by a discussion of the movie shown and the themes it explores.

The series kicks off tomorrow night with a showing of L’Auberge D’Espagnole, a lively multi-linguistic French-Spanish offering that follows Parisian student Xavier on his Erasmus year in Barcelona.

All films will be shown in the Student Lounge at the Herbert Manzoni Building at 7pm and are free to attend. For a complete list of the films to be shown in the series, visit this page:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/phir/news-events/political-film-series/

Eden Flix Presents: Unwasted

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This Wednesday at 3pm the Design Studio in the Keith Green Building will be hosting another hard-hitting social documentary as part of the Eden Flix series.

Unwasted: the Future of Business on Earth has been created by Sage Environmental Services, Inc. of Seattle, WA in partnership with PorterWorks, Inc., and focuses on the future of Zero Waste as a key element of sustainable business.The documentary features interviews with industry leaders, policy-makers, activists, scientists and business professionals from the Pacific Northwest region in the United States, including several with CleanScapes staff, as well as functional tips to help individuals and businesses adapt.

Eden Flix are a series of highly acclaimed, thought-provoking and inspirational documentaries on issues related to engineering, design and social consciousness sponsored by the Centre for Engineering and Design Education (CEDE) as part of the Engineering and Design Educators Network (EDEN) series of events. Begun in 2012, fifteen films have so far been shown and more are scheduled in future.

Screenings are free for all Loughborough students and staff, but booking is necessary. To do that, visit this link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eden-flix-screening-unwasted-the-future-of-business-on-earth-tickets-13413541263

Eden Flix Presents 'Will Work For Free'

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will work for freeThis Wednesday at 3pm in the Keith Green Building Eden Flix presents another in its series of hard-hitting social environmental documentaries.

Will Work For Free is a non-profit documentary/narrative film from Maveric Media. Written and directed by Sam Vallely. The film explores the emergence of “technological unemployment” and the economic implications of automating jobs in a society which requires the circulation of money through commerce and paid employment.

Eden Flix are a series of highly acclaimed, thought-provoking and inspirational documentaries on issues related to engineering, design and social consciousness sponsored by the Centre for Engineering and Design Education (CEDE) as part of the Engineering and Design Educators Network (EDEN) series of events. Begun in 2012, fifteen films have so far been shown and more are scheduled in future.

All screenings are free for all Loughborough students and staff and are screened in the Keith Green Building. Admission is free, but booking is necessary – to do that, follow this link.