The Hunting Ground (March 16 at the Night Light Cinema in Akron)

[THE HUNTING GROUND screens Thursday March 16th at 7:00 pm at the Nightlight Cinema in Akron.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

Call it urgent victim-culture programming for Women’s History Month, or call it (as I would prefer) a warning to anyone seriously thinking of sinking a fortune into a college education, when diplomas are largely worthless in today’s no-jobs economy. But Kirby Dick’s incendiary feature THE HUNTING GROUND will stick with you, and prove that feminism and sexism are no match for the biggest “ism” of all – tuitionism.

The documentary is a blistering expose about how "sexual violence has always been part of the college experience," as one interviewee puts it.

But in Great Recession America, the filmmakers charge, universities are so greed-driven and desperate as to resist expelling known sex predators - especially if the violators are student athletes crucial to sports success/largesse, and brothers in powerful fraternities.

Rape victims, meanwhile (including male ones), find themselves facing unsympathetic campus law enforcement and open hostility from peers (particularly when a BMOC football hero is accused).

Nine "landmark films by women" coming to the Cinematheque

[Press release from the Cleveland Cinematheque.]

Nine major movies by six groundbreaking female filmmakers will light up the screen at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque from January 14 through February 25 in the series "The Female Gaze: Landmark Films by Women."

All programs will be screened in the Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Cleveland Institute of Art,  11610 Euclid Avenue in the Uptown District of University Circle. Unless noted, admission to each program is $10; Cinematheque members, those with CIA or CSU I.D. cards, or those age 25 & under $7. Free parking for filmgoers is available in Lot 73 and in the Institute's Annex Lot, both accessed from E. 117th Street off Euclid Avenue. For further information, visit cia.edu/cinematheque, call (216) 421-7450, or send an email to cinema@cia.edu. Cinematheque programs are supported by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.

THE FEMALE GAZE: LANDMARK FILMS BY WOMEN
January 14 - February 25, 2017
Eight major films by six groundbreaking female filmmakers from the U.S., France, and Belgium have been recently restored and re-released. We show them in this series, along with another classic by a Hollywood pioneer.

SAT        1/14      7:15 PM                THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI & SHOES
SAT        1/21      5:00 PM                DANCE, GIRL, DANCE
SUN      1/22      6:30 PM                DANCE, GIRL, DANCE
THU      1/26      6:45 PM                LE BONHEUR (HAPPINESS)
SAT        1/28      5:00 PM                LE BONHEUR (HAPPINESS)
SAT        2/4        5:00 PM                DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
SUN      2/5        6:30 PM                DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
THU      2/9        6:45 PM                THE WATERMELON WOMAN
FRI          2/17      9:00 PM                JE TU IL ELLE (I YOU HE SHE) & NEWS FROM HOME
MON    2/20      6:45 PM                JE TU IL ELLE (I YOU HE SHE) & NEWS FROM HOME
SAT        2/25      7:00 PM                SMITHEREENS