Honors Cinema

These films will run at 1 pm in the Honors Room 1315D Conference Room.

Viewing four films will earn one Honors engagement point. Viewing eight films will earn two Honors engagement points.

The activity will consist of one film per week with a one hour discussion afterward. Students must participate in both the screening and the discussion to earn credit towards the engagement point.

Seating will be restricted to 12 participants. Food and drink will not be allowed during the activity.



Cinema 60s: The Spy Who Come in from the Cold

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Honors Conference Room 1315D, inside 1330 Mason Hall

(Great Britain; 1965; Martin Ritt) is based on the same name best-selling novel by John Le Carré that’s substantially different from the typical 1960s super “secret agent” exploits of James Bond (among cinematic others). Richard Burton plays Alec Leamas, a cashiered British operative drummed from England’s secret Service “Circus.” A defector to East Germany, Leamas is given a one-way ticket to redemption by posing as a British defector to sow disinformation on an East German Intelligence officer—at least until his cover may have been blown. Considered a classic in the film spy genre, the film’s a somber “Cold War” ode to the mid-20th century gray shadows between the east and west superpowers.

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