Summer 2016 Schedule

Both films will be screened in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center located inside the Bill S. Cole University Center (near the corner of E. 13th Street and South Francis) on the campus of East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

Tickets are available at the door for $10 per person or $5 for students (with ID) unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, July 14th at 7 pm

LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES
by Christopher Hampton

Following the hugely successful broadcasts of Coriolanus and King Lear, National Theatre Live brings the Donmar Warehouse’s highly anticipated new production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses to cinemas - broadcast live from the Donmar’s London home.

Directed by Josie Rourke (Coriolanus), the cast includes Elaine Cassidy (The Paradise), Janet McTeer (The Honourable Woman) and Dominic West (The Wire). In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos’ novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France scandalised the world. Two hundred years later, Christopher Hampton's irresistible adaptation swept the board, winning the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play. Josie Rourke’s revival now marks the play’s thirty year anniversary.

Former lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont now compete in games of seduction and revenge. Merteuil incites Valmont to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel. While these merciless aristocrats toy with others’ hearts and reputations, their own may prove more fragile than they supposed.

Saturday, June 27th at 2 pm
ENCORE: Saturday, August 9th at 2 pm

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
by Richard Bean

For a limited time only, National Theatre Live’s Encore Series brings a selection of award-winning British theatre productions to your local cinema.

Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the uproarious One Man, Two Guvnors was a runaway hit both in London’s West End and on Broadway.

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers.

Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.

As You Like It

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's last day on this Earth, ECU SCREENS celebrates the Bard with a presentation of the Royal National Theatre of London's recorded-live broadcast of "As You Like It," at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 23rd in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center at East Central University.

Jane Eyre

March 26 at 2 pm in the Estep:

Today: ECU's Foreign Film Festival Grand Finale!

Join us at 4 for "Wild Tales," a cinematic thrill ride set in Argentina. It's FREE!

At 2:30 the Nacho Biznez food truck will be parked on the west side of the University Center. Get your tacos on, then register for door prizes: including Argentine chocolate desserts, books and DVDs featuring Argentine culture (Julio Cortazar, Evita, Viggo Mortensen . . .), a gift basket from Truffles and Swirls, and many of Ada's favorite restaurants and cafes.

Stick around afterwards for the Grand Prix, which will include one free night at the Hampton Inn in Ada, a $25 gift certificate to the Misal of India Bistro in Norman, a $15 gift certificate to the Asahi sushi restaurant in Ada, a $15 gift certificate to the Nacho Biznez food truck, two passes to the Cinemark Ada, a $10 gift certificate to Amber's Sweet Shoppe, a free sandwich basket at Pigskins BBQ, a $5 gift certificate to Hot Shots, a $5 gift certificate to Mojo's, and a box of delicious Russian chocolates.

This Friday: Germany's Turn at ECU's Foreign Film Festival

ECU’s Foreign Film Festival continues its sixth season on Friday, February 12th with the “beautiful and mysteriously powerful” (Wall Street Journal) German-language film Phoenix, which will be screened at 4:00 p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center.

Named one of the top five foreign language films of 2015 by the National Board of Review, Phoenix is a spellbinding mystery of identity, illusion, and deception that unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany. Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured by a bullet wound. After undergoing reconstructive surgery, Nelly emerges with a new face that her former husband Johnny doesn’t recognize.

Rather than reveal herself, Nelly walks into a dangerous game of duplicity and disguise as she tries to figure out if the man she loves may have been the one who betrayed her to the Nazis. Evoking the shadows and haunted mood of post-war Berlin, Phoenix weaves a complex tale of a nation’s tragedy and a woman’s search for answers as it builds towards an unforgettable, heart-stopping climax.           

Before the show, come to the University Center at 3 p.m. for a "Three O'Clock Cabaret" experience featuring German sweets and song. The "Afternoon Cabaret" will feature musical performances by some of ECU's most talented faculty and students including Dr. Melody Baggech,  Bo Chesser, Courtney Phillips, Emelia Robinson, Ashley Tucker, and Leah Whiten, with Sunnie Smith and Elyse Marquardt accompanying them on the piano.  The sweets will include home-made German dark chocolate fudge brownies with black cherry preserves, German chocolate cake cookies, apple strudel, and Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake), and Krapfen (German pastries), all prepared by ECU Honors students.

ECU's Foreign Film Festival features free foreign-language films on Fridays in February at four p.m. Each film in the festival is introduced by an ECU student or faculty member. After each screening lucky audience members are given books, DVDs, gift certificates and other door prizes that will either be associated with the featured culture or  will be donated by a local business. Door prizes after the Phoenix screening include a glass stein, Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts, Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, a DVD of the film Cabaret and a CD of the Broadway revival recording of Cabaret.

Local businesses supporting this year's Festival include the Hampton Inn (offering one free night), Cinemark Ada, Hot Shots, Asahi, Truffles and Swirls, Nacho Bizness, Pigskin's BBQ, Amber's Sweet Shoppe, and Mojo’s Coffee Bar. 

ECU's Foreign Film Festival is an expansion of the French Film Festival which has been held on the ECU campus since 2011. In recent years, hundreds from ECU and the surrounding communities have attended screenings of foreign-language films that are not screened in local cinemas.  The Festival is now hosted by ECU SCREENS, with support from ECU’s Cultural Activities Committee, the ECU Foundation, and the Student Government Association, in collaboration with Sigma Tau Delta (the International English Honors Society), the Honors Student Association. 

For more information about ECU’s Foreign Film Festival, contact Dr. Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, co-director of ECU SCREENS, at (580) 559-5929 or rnichlsn@ecok.edu.

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ECU's Foreign Film Festival Opens with "My Perestroika"

ECU’s Foreign Film Festival kicks off its sixth season on Friday, February 5th with "My Perestroika," a Russian-language documentary that follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times – from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.

ECU's Foreign Film Festival features free foreign-language films on Fridays in February at four p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep multimedia center in the Bill S. Cole University Center at East Central University in Ada.

This year's first feature, "not only evocatively captures the Russian spirit and the yearnings of a generation, but . . .  also masterfully chronicles the historic collapse of the Soviet Union and its complex aftermath," according to David Lewis of The San Francisco Chronicle.

This screening of "My Perestroika" is made possible in part through a Startalk grant that ECU has been awarded the past three years to host a Russian language summer camp for high school students from Oklahoma and other states. "My Perestroika" is one of five planned post-program activities that allow students to maintain the connection with Russian language and culture after the residential portion of the program is over.

Each film in the festival will be given a brief introduction by an ECU student or faculty member. After each screening lucky audience members will be given books, DVDs, gift certificates and other door prizes that will either be associated with the featured culture or  will be donated by a local business.  Local businesses supporting this year's Festival include the Hampton Inn (offering one free night),  Cinemark Ada, Hotshots, Truffles and Swirls, Nacho Bizness, and Mojo’s Coffee Bar. 

ECU's Foreign Film Festival is an expansion of the French Film Festival which has been held on the ECU campus since 2011. In recent years, hundreds from ECU and the surrounding communities have attended screenings of foreign-language films that are not screened in local cinemas.  The Festival is now hosted by ECU SCREENS, with support from ECU’s Cultural Activities Committee, the ECU Foundation, and the Student Government Association,  in collaboration with Sigma Tau Delta (the International English Honors Society) and the Honors Student Association. 

For more information about ECU’s Foreign Film Festival, contact Dr. Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, co-director of ECU SCREENS, at (580) 559-5929 or rnichlsn@ecok.edu.