<p>You "watch" a movie each week on Thursday from 6-8 or so. </p>
<p>You don't have to go--no attendance is taken or anything like that. I attended maybe 6 of the 25 or so movies, and fell asleep in more than half of the ones I was at. </p>
<p>Some students really like it, some really don't care. But the movies may pop up on the final at the end of each quarter, so be cautious in blowing it off entirely.</p>
<p>Besides being a good way to usher in the weekend, I've really appreciated SLE for providing me a basic introduction to conventions of film and methods of tying film to intellectual ideas that I wasn't familiar with. I've gone from being a simple consumer of films to being able to critically evaluate them with more sophistication than "the special effects are poor" or "she acted well"</p>