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Butler Libraries Film Series: 2024-25 Series

A Guide to supplement the Butler Libraries Film Series

April 2025

Chungking Express by Wong Kar-Wai
Publication Date: 1994

March 2025

Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
Publication Date: 1999

February 2025

Clueless by Amy Heckerling
Publication Date: 1995

January 2025

Fargo by Joel Coen
Publication Date: 1996

December 2024

Metropolitan by Whit Stillman
Publication Date: 1990

November 2024

The Truman Show by Peter Weir
Publication Date: 1998

October 2024

The Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme
Publication Date: 1991

September 2024

But I'm a Cheerleader by Jamie Babbit
Publication Date: 1999

More on Chungking Express

"Mocking MTV Style and Paying Homage to It"
Maslin, Janet. The New York Times. Sept. 26, 1994. C14.
"Poet of Time: Wong Kar-Wai on Chungking Express"
Rayns, Tony. Sight & Sound. September 1995.
"Chungking Express"
Ebert, Roger. March 15, 1996. rogerebert.com

More on Run Lola Run

A Rebel with Red Hair Rumples Stuffed Shirts
Winters, Laura. New York Times. June 13, 1999. AR17.
Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets (Or Does She?): Time and Desire in Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run
O'Sickey, Ingeborg Majer. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Vol. 19, Issue 2. 2002.
Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run
Evans, Owen. Studies in European Cinema. Vol. 1, Issue 2. 2004.

More on Clueless

A Teen-Ager Who's Clear on Her Priorities
Maslin, Janet. The New York Times. July 19, 1995. C9.
Adapting Jane Austen: The Surprising Fidelity of "Clueless"
Galperin, William. The Wordsworth Circle. Vol. 42, No. 3. Summer 2011.
"Can I Please Give You Some Advice?" Clueless and the Teen Makeover
Leppert, Alice. Cinema Journal. Vol. 53, No. 3. Spring 2014.

Further Reading on Fargo

Fargo [Review]
McKinney, Devin. Film Quarterly. Vol. 50, no.1. Autumn 1996.
"Fargo": Struggle for the Vehicle
Lee, Scott. Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Vol. 11, no. 1. Spring 2002.
Colliding Worlds: the Disintegration of America in the Films of the Coen Brothers
Carstensen, Thorsten. Journal of American Studies. Vol. 53, no. 2. May 2019.

Further Reading on Metropolitan

Whit Stillman's 'Metropolitan,' a Modern Comedy of Manners
Canby, Vincent. The New York Times. Aug. 30, 1990. C6.
'Metropolitan' and the Enduring Plight of the U.H.B.
Brody, Richard. The New Yorker. August 11 2015.
On the Greatest Christmas Movie of All Time
Burton, Tara Isabella. The Line of Beauty. Dec. 26, 2021

Further Reading on The Truman Show

So, What's Wrong With This Picture?
Maslin, Janet. The New York Times. June 5, 1998
Reading 'The Truman Show' Inside Out
Knox, Simone. Film Criticism. Vol. 35 Issue 1. Fall 2010.
Live Transmission: Revisiting 'The Truman Show' in a Panoptic World
Douglas, James Robert. Screen Education. Issue 92, 2018.

More on The Silence of the Lambs

Methods of Madness in 'Silence of the Lambs'
Canby, Vincent. New York Times. Feb. 14, 1991. C17.
The Matter With Mind: Violence and "The Silence of the Lambs"
Mann, Karen B. Criticism, Vol. 38 No. 4 (Fall 1996). p. 583-605.
Coveting the Feminine: Victor Frankenstein, Norman Bates, and Buffalo Bill
Negra, Diane. Literature/Film Quarterly. Vol. 24, No. 2 (1996). p. 193-2000

More on But I'm a Cheerleader

Don't Worry. Pink Outfits Will Straighten Her Out [Review]
Mitchell, Elvis. New York Times. July 7, 2000. E10.
Positive Images & the Coming Out Film
Bronski, Michael. Cinéaste. Vol. 26, No. 1, 2000. p. 220-26
American Beauty: The Cheerleader in American Literature and Popular Culture
Miles, La'Tonya Rease. Women's Studies Quarterly. Vol. 33, No. 1/2. Spring-Summer 2005. p. 224-232.

Returning in 2024-25...

The Irwin Library Film Series returns for the 2024-25 year with a new theme – Back to the 90s! Almost nobody had a cell phone, but we were dipping a toe in the internet, making mixtapes, watching Friends and Seinfeld, as well as this year’s assortment of films released and set in the 1990s

Join Butler Libraries faculty and our guest host Dr. Katherine Johnson as we examine the cinema of our youth and what it says about how we live today. Popcorn and soda will be available, as well as BCR credit!

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