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Newman at Night Film Screenings: La Regle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
Venue: Newman Library (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 11:00 PM
Event Types: Food, Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free
Description:
Watch classic films under the stars outside Virginia Tech's Newman Library facing Torgersen Hall. This evening's film is La Regle du jeu or The Rules of the Game.

Newman Library has a 16mm film collection of approximately 1600 titles. This collection has been built over the last 60 years, and contains films on subjects ranging from agriculture to metallurgy to war as well as several feature films. There are also several films in the collection that were produced on campus at VT in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s.

Periodically, we pull select titles from this collection and put them on display in our front yard.

These screenings are free to all, and all are welcome. Pets are welcome too, as long as they're crowd-friendly. Free popcorn will also be available.

Film Information:

La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) is a 1939 French film directed by Jean Renoir. It is Renoir's look at bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II. An assorted cast of characters - the rich and their poor servants - meet up at a French chateau.

The film was initially condemned for its satire on the French upper classes and was greeted with derision by a Parisian crowd on its première. The French government banned it.

Don't miss the film that enraged Parisians in 1939.

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