<p>Two questions:</p>
<li><p>Does anyone know anything about the “film studies” minor? I found something about it through, but (I think) not actually <em>on</em>, the Ex-College website. It is listed along with another minor. As an incoming freshman in the lib arts school planning to major in English, would I have problems doing that?</p></li>
<li><p>Is the Film Series still up and running? The website seems a bit out-of-date (ie, films listed from December).</p></li>
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<p>Okay, I lied - three questions.</p>
<li>What’s the best movie theatre nearby?</li>
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<p>Check out the Communication & Media Studies minor webpage. Film Studies is a minor within that department. You should definitely also consider the International Letters & Visual Studies major -- it includes media studies as well as philosophy and literature. And as any cineaste will tell you, you can't make a movie without those two.</p>
<p>The film series is definitely up and running. The website has just not been updated in years!</p>
<p>The best movie theatre in Boston is Kendall Sq. Cinema (4 stops on the T). Check out their website. They have all the foreign and independent films first.</p>
<p>Boston Common is great- stadium seating and fun location. It has the blockbusters but also a fair number of smaller films (not the selection of Kendall though).</p>
<p>The film courses in the ExCollege look terrific. Also, you might be able to take film courses through the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.</p>
<p>Personally, I think the best movie theaters are the Somerville Theater in Davis Square which is probably the closest, the Arlington Theater on Mass Ave. in Arlington, the Harvard Square Theater on Church St. in Harvard Square and the Brattle Theater which is also in Harvard Square. The Kendall Square Theater gets some interesting films. It's probably the furthest from Tufts, although somewhat near the T.</p>
<p>The Somerville Theater? C'mon now. ;)</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree. The Somerville Theatre is quaint and all but it is a second-run place, so it's really only good if you've missed all the films that were showing everywhere else a month ago.</p>
<p>dude, no way. Somerville is the way to go because it's close and CHEAP. I hate the idea of paying 9 bucks to see a movie, and at Somerville it's slightly more reasonable.</p>
<p>the Loews theater at Park St is one of the nicest theaters I've ever seen, it's huge. the one at Kendall shows cool, less well-known movies (it was the only one nearby playing Little Miss Sunshine :) ).</p>
<p>I like those neighborhood second-run places like Somerville and Arlington.
What can I say. He asked for movie theaters that are nearby. I don't consider Boston nearby. They get some great concerts at the Somerville Theater too.</p>
<p>Second-run sounds good to me. I always miss the movies the first time around - maybe only because in my town the theatre only plays the really bad horror flicks/japanese movie remakes/the worst of the worst gross-out movies. I love how knowledgeable you all are!</p>
<p>LMS was good. I've met several people who seem to have had some sort of epiphany after watching it though and that is simply inexcusable in my book.</p>
<p>What's inexcusable - the possible/likely pretentiousness of such a claim, or the idea that films can cause epiphanies at all? Have you seen Schindler's List? Akira Kurosawa's Dreams? Those films could cause epiphanies.</p>
<p>Dude I went to the movie store the other day and tried to get Schindler's List but they didn't have it. Not like someone rented it before me they just straightup didn't have it at all. How a movie store does not have Schindler's List I'll never know. I mean WOW, GET IT TOGETHER DUDE.</p>
<p>I'll try and get the Akira Kurosawa's Dreams though even though I've never had an epiphany watching a movie.</p>
<p>They didn't have it at all? Holy cr*p.</p>
<p>Dreams is amazing. But it has subtitles. I have a hard time watching subbed movies though (ADD), and I don't know if they have a dubbed version. Lucky I can understand a tiny bit of spoken Japanese. And it might be a little hard to follow <em>if</em> you don't know anything about Japanese culture - as in, their legends, the way they think more collectively than westerners do (or at least they used to think more that way, I don't know about now, what with instant communication and all that) - but I assume you know at least something unless you have never watched TV, and it's easy to pick up on fairly quickly so it shouldn't really matter either way. It's a series of vignettes that are all supposed to be dreams (thus the title) though you never see the people when they are awake.</p>
<p>Sorry about the tangent! You can ignore the overly enthusiastic film buff now.</p>
<p>The Boston Common theater is much more convenient than the one at Kendall. It is right off the Boylston T stop, or just down the block form Park street, which is just a minute or two passed Kendall anyway.</p>
<p>Also there are opportunities for upperclassmen to teach film focused classes to freshman through the ex-college.</p>