Cultural Studies
When not showing recent blockbusters on Friday and Saturday nights, Doc Films caters to more esoteric film buffs, offering a different category of film for each weekday:

SUNDAY: The Last War
The Dawn Patrol, Edmund Goulding, 1938. The film depicts young men in a WWI fighter squadron constantly coping with death and killing. The British airmen fly missions on command as is their duty, but they also share a professionalism with the German pilots they battle daily.

MONDAY: Surrealist Visions
Landscape Suicide, James Benning, 1986. Benning explores locations that have been scarred by murders, intercutting poetic and quiet landscape shots with haunting portrayals of the murderers based on court transcripts.

TUESDAY: African Cinema
Everyone’s Child, Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1996. Dangarembga follows the lives of four children orphaned when their parents die of AIDS-related complications. This 35-mm film shows how a village eventually recognizes its responsibility for the orphans when one of them dies accidentally.

WEDNESDAY: Travel
Mountains of the Moon, Bob Rafelson, 1990. Partially based on journals, Mountains chronicles Victorian explorer Sir Richard Francis on his explorations through Africa, focusing on the man and his relationship with fellow explorer John Hanning Speke.

THURSDAY: Herzog
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, Werner Herzog, 1979. This eerie remake of F. W. Murnau’s silent horror classic relates the story of a man who ignores his wife’s premonitions and travels from his small town in 1850s Germany to close a real-estate deal with the bald, pale, and fragile-looking Count Dracula.