Now showing: Independent and foreign films

Are you tired of the same corporate blockbuster Hollywood movies? The endless onslaught of sequels, reboots, and remakes getting you down? Well you are not alone! Come join Hodges Library in its ongoing monthly screenings of independent and foreign films. Starting Fall semester 2017, Hodges Library has revived its film series highlighting the enormous amount … Continued

Foreign film screenings

Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures sponsors screenings of foreign-language films in the Hodges Library auditorium. Here’s the line-up for Spring 2014. All films are free and open to the public. ____ FRENCH FILM SERIES 6 pm, Hodges Library Auditorium French with English subtitles Tuesday, Feb. 18 La belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast) … Continued

Film showings mark Hurricane Katrina anniversary

Join us to commemorate the 5-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina at two film showings: A Village Called Versailles Wednesday, August 25, 7 p.m. Hodges Library Auditorium In a New Orleans neighborhood called Versailles, a tight-knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes threatened by a new … Continued

Biology Nights at the Library presents Monkey Trial, March 4

Biology Nights at the Library is celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On The Origin of Species by screening three documentaries on evolution. The second in the series is Monkey Trial. More than 80 years after the Scopes Trial occurred in Dayton, Tennessee, the teaching of … Continued

Documentaries in the Library Focus on Political Themes

The University of Tennessee Libraries and the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy invite the campus and local community to attend the Documentaries in the Library series. Each event features a documentary film screening followed by a discussion. The events are free and open to the public. To celebrate the 2008 election, the current series … Continued

Films in April

Film Movement Film Series Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium Dreams Of Dust Burkina Faso, Canada, France / d. Laurent Salgues / 86 min Mocktar, a Nigerien peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. … Continued