Welcome to the completely unofficial site of Cinema 1544, the (also completely unofficial) Center For Neuroscience biweekly movie night! To join the Cinema 1544 mailing list, send an email to jsjohnson at ucdavis dot edu.
The main reason for this page existing in the first place is to help keep track of what has been shown. The great thing is that we’ve shown so many films that I needed to make a second page because the first page (films 1-250) was getting unwieldy. (The movie synopses are merely coming along for the ride.)
Warning: Movie write-ups are extremely spoilerific, pretty much every time. If you haven’t seen the film and don’t want it spoiled, don’t read the write-up!
| Date | Feature Presentation | Presenter | Short |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6/18/15 | Safety Not Guaranteed | Caitlin Kiley | Time Trap |
| 7/2/15 | Synecdoche, New York | Lindsay Cameron | Le Royaume |
| 7/16/15 | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Lindsay Cameron | What Creative Designers Do In Their Spare Time |
| 7/30/15 | Easy Rider | Tyler Manning | “Wires” by Red Fang |
| 8/13/15 | Nueve Reinas (“Nine Queens”) | Tyler Manning | Window Washer/”Shia LaBeouf” by Rob Cantor |
| 8/27/15 | Interstellar | Jacob Herford | None |
| 9/10/15 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Jacob Herford | None |
| 9/24/15 | Rat Race | Brittany Rapone | Slap-Ass, Slap-Ass: In Recovery |
| 10/8/15 | Wall Street | Kevin O’Connor | Money Talks (Jeff) |
| 10/21/15 | Back To The Future II | Julie Luu (Note: Weds.) | Design For Dreaming (Jeff) |
| 10/29/15 | Rosemary’s Baby | Halloween Special II (Kevin O’Connor) | Baby (Jeff) |
| 11/5/15 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Kevin O’Connor | An Immortal Man (Jeff) |
| 11/19/15 | Blow-Up | Josh Downer | None |
| 12/3/15 | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 12/12/15 | Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi | Winter Marathon 8: Star Wars, the original trilogy | None |
| 1/7/16 | Persepolis | Jalina Graham | None |
| 1/21/16 | L’illusionniste | Jalina Graham | The Selling Wizard (Jeff) |
| 2/4/16 | Still Alice | Anahita Hamidi | None |
| 2/18/16 | Straight Outta Compton | Anahita Hamidi | None |
| 3/3/16 | True Grit (2010) | Jacob Herford | None |
| 3/16/16 | Super Troopers | Jacob Herford | KITH Cops Compilation (Jeff) |
| 3/31/16 | The Martian | Bamboo Li | None |
| 4/14/16 | Memento – Film #275 | Bamboo Li | None |
| 4/28/16 | The Shrine | Conor Weatherford | Over (Jeff) |
| 5/12/16 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Henry Alitto | Duck Amuck |
| 5/26/16 | The Grey Zone | Henry Alitto | Rabbit of Seville |
| 6/4/16 | Deadpool / The Revenant | Grill 1544 Viewers’ Choice | None |
| 6/16/16 | Tropic Thunder | Conor Weatherford | None |
| 7/7/16 | Lost In Translation | Jeffrey Johnson | Hungarian Phrasebook |
| 7/21/16 | Winter’s Bone | Jeffrey Johnson | Circus On Ice |
| 8/4/16 | KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park | Jeff Padberg (remote) | None |
| 8/16/16 (Tues.) | Blow | Jacob Herford | None |
| 9/1/16 (8 PM?) | Django Unchained | Jacob Herford | None |
| 9/15/16 | Waking Life | Tyler Manning | Italian Spiderman (trailer) |
| 9/29/16 | Twelve Monkeys | Tyler Manning | La Jetée (redux) |
| 10/13/16 | Human Nature | Troy Crowder – Second Decade!! | Wisdom Teeth |
| 10/29/16 | Mary and Max | Phong Nguyen – Second Decade Vol. 2 | None |
| 10/29/16 | It Follows | Halloween Special III (Kevin O’Connor) | None |
| 11/17/16 | All the President’s Men | Kevin O’Connor | A Case of Spring Fever (Jeff) |
| 12/1/16 | Hot Fuzz | Jenny Mohn | None |
| 12/10/16 | La Strada / “8 1/2” / Amarcord | Winter Marathon 9: Federico Fellini | None |
| 1/12/17 | Fargo | Jenny Mohn | Snow Thrills (Jeff) |
| 1/26/17 | Swiss Army Man | Jalina Graham | The Life of Death |
| 2/8/17 (Weds) | Kingsman: The Secret Service | Jalina Graham | None |
| 3/9/17 | Holy Motors – Film #300 | Josh Downer | None |
| 3/22/17 (Weds) | The Wrestler | Josh Downer | None |
| 4/6/17 | Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams | Brendan Cohn-Sheehy | None |
| 4/20/17 | Spaceballs | Jeffrey Johnson | Robot Chicken Star Wars, Episode II |
| 5/4/17 | Babette’s Feast | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 5/18/17 | In the Mood for Love | Brendan Cohn-Sheehy | Mulvaney Conference Call From Hell |
| 6/1/17 | The Fisher King | Jeffrey Johnson | Judge Morty: State of Georgia Vs. Rick Allen |
| 6/15/17 | The Ballad of Narayama | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 7/6/17 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) | Tyler Manning | Time For Sushi |
| 7/20/17 | What We Do in the Shadows | Tyler Manning | Foux Du Fa Fa |
| 8/3/17 | The Big Year | Najwa Marrush | None |
| 8/17/17 | Dirty Dancing | Najwa Marrush | A Patrick Swayze Christmas (Jeff) |
| 9/9/17 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / Arrival | Grill 1544 Viewers’ Choice | None |
| 9/21/17 | Blue Ruin | Conor Weatherford | None |
| 10/5/17 | La Belle et la Bête (“Beauty and the Beast”) | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 10/19/17 | Moonlight | Millie Copara | None |
| 11/2/17 | Les Diaboliques (“Diabolique”) | Halloween Special IV (Kevin O’Connor) | None |
| 11/16/17 | Macario | Jon Wong | None |
| 11/30/17 | Taxi Driver | Jon Wong | None |
| 12/16/17 | The Grapes of Wrath / The Quiet Man / The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Winter Marathon 10: John Ford | None |
| 1/11/18 | Song of the Sea | Jalina Graham | Beauty and the Beast Pencil Test |
| 1/25/18 | A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night | Angela Nazarian | Some clips from Persepolis |
| 2/6/18 (Tuesday!) | Vertigo – Film #325 | Brendan Cohn-Sheehy | None |
| 2/22/18 | High Anxiety | Brendan Cohn-Sheehy | Garden Party (Jeff) |
| 3/8/18 | Bullitt | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 3/22/18 | Klute | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 4/5/18 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jeffrey Johnson | Flying Sheep (Monty Python) |
| 4/19/18 | Silence | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 5/3/18 | Vanilla Sky | Katelynn Ondek | None |
| 5/10/18 | Er ist wieder da (“Look Who’s Back”) | Katelynn Ondek | Hitler Goes To Vet School (Downfall parody) |
| 5/24/18 | Anon | Katy Pannoni | A Social Life |
| 6/14/18 | Once Brothers | Jeffrey Johnson | Miss Sarajevo |
| 6/28/18 | Wind River | Conor Weatherford | None |
| 7/19/18 | The Gods Must Be Crazy | Conor Weatherford | None |
| 8/2/18 | Black Panther | Najwa Marrush | None |
| 8/16/18 | Avengers: Infinity War | Najwa Marrush | None |
| 8/30/18 | Gattaca | Jalina Graham | Tears In The Rain |
| 9/13/18 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy | Jalina Graham | None |
| 9/27/18 | The Birds | Jenny Mohn | For The Birds |
| 10/11/18 | Hunt For The Wilderpeople | Jenny Mohn | None |
| 10/25/18 | Looper | Brett Bormann | None |
| 10/31/18 | Ringu | Halloween Special V (Kevin O’Connor) | None |
| 11/15/18 | Play Misty For Me | Tyler Manning | None |
| 11/29/18 | La Haine (“Hate”) | Tyler Manning | None |
| 12/15/18 | E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial / Jurassic Park / Ready Player One | Winter Marathon 11: Steven Spielberg | None |
| 1/17/19 | Unbreakable | Brett Bormann | None |
| 1/31/19 | Split – Film #350 | Brett Bormann | None |
| 2/13/19 (Weds) | My Best Friend’s Wedding | Najwa Marrush | Is This Love? (Jeff) |
| 2/28/19 | The Emperor’s New Groove | Najwa Marrush | None |
| 3/14/19 | North By Northwest | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 3/28/19 | Sexy Beast | Kevin O’Connor | M.O.P.Z. (Jeff) |
| 4/11/19 | Into The Woods (1991, American Playhouse) | Jalina Graham | None |
| 4/25/19 | The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 5/9/19 | Free Solo | Jennifer Mohn | The “Rock Climbing” sequence from MST3K’s Lost Continent (Jeff) |
| 5/23/19 | Burning | Angela Nazarian | None |
| 6/6/19 | Incredibles 2 | Jennifer Mohn | Kitbull |
| 6/13/19 | Visages Villages (“Faces Places”) | Angela Nazarian | None |
| 6/27/19 | Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 | Dominique Beauregard Cazabon | None |
| 7/18/19 | Eighth Grade | Dominique Beauregard Cazabon | None |
| 8/1/19 | Death On The Nile (1978) | Najwa Marrush | None |
| 8/15/19 | Woodstock (1970) | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 8/29/19 | La Doublure (“The Valet”) | Raisa Rahim | None |
| 9/12/19 | Get Out | Raisa Rahim | Substitute Teacher (Jeff) |
| 9/26/19 | They Shall Not Grow Old | Jon Wong | None |
| 10/10/19 | Hable con ella (“Talk to Her”) | Jon Wong | None |
| 10/31/19 | The Endless | Halloween Special VI (Kevin O’Connor) | Gentleman (Jeff) |
| 11/14/19 | Harakiri | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 12/5/19 | Blade Runner 2049 | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 12/14/19 | The Wedding Banquet / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Life of Pi | Winter Marathon 12: Ang Lee | None |
| 1/16/20 | Bad Day at Black Rock – Film #375 | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 1/30/20 | Nobi (“Fires on the Plain”) | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 2/13/20 | Call Me By Your Name | Angela Nazarian | None |
| 2/27/20 | Roma | Angela Nazarian | Parc Monceau (from Paris, Je T’aime, Jeff) |
| 3/12/20 | The Terminator | Raisa Rahim | None |
| 3/26/20 – Shelter-In-Place #1 | The Seventh Seal | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 4/9/20 – Shelter-In-Place #2 | The Blob | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 4/23/20 – Shelter-In-Place #3 | Playtime | Brendan Cohn-Sheehy | None |
| 5/7/20 – Shelter-In-Place #4 | Tokyo Drifter | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 5/21/20 – Shelter-In-Place #5 | High and Low | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 6/4/20 – Shelter-In-Place #6 | Sans Soleil | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 6/18/20 – Shelter-In-Place #7 | To Be Or Not To Be | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 7/2/20 – Shelter-In-Place #8 | Bloodline | Kaitryn Ronning | None |
| 7/16/20 – Shelter-In-Place #9 | Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read | Raisa Rahim | None |
| 7/30/20 – Shelter-In-Place #10 | La règle du jeu (“The Rules of the Game”) | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 8/13/20 – Shelter-In-Place #11 | Andrei Rublev | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 8/27/20 – Shelter-In-Place #12 | A Hard Day’s Night | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 9/10/20 – Shelter-In-Place #13 | Hobson’s Choice | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 9/24/20 – Shelter-In-Place #14 | Ali: Fear Eats The Soul | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 10/8/20 – Shelter-In-Place #15 | Der Himmel über Berlin (“Wings Of Desire”) | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 10/22/20 – Shelter-In-Place #16 | The Double Life Of Véronique | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 10/29/20 – Shelter-In-Place #17 | Ugetsu | Halloween Special VII (Kevin O’Connor) | This House Has People In It (Jeff) |
| 11/5/20 – Shelter-In-Place #18 | Close-Up | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 11/19/20 – Shelter-In-Place #19 | Fiend Without A Face | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 12/3/20 – Shelter-In-Place #20 | City Lights | Jeffrey Johnson | One For The Angels |
| 12/12/20 – 1/3/21 | Smiles Of A Summer Night (Film #400) / Persona / Fanny And Alexander | (At-Your-Leisure) Winter Marathon 13: Ingmar Bergman | None |
| 1/14/21 – Shelter-In-Place #21 | Séance On A Wet Afternoon | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 1/28/21 – Shelter-In-Place #22 | Jeffrey Johnson | None | |
| 2/11/21 – Shelter-In-Place #23 | A Brighter Summer Day | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 2/25/21 – Shelter-In-Place #24 | Ex Machina | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 3/11/21 – Shelter-In-Place #25 | The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 3/25/21 – Shelter-In-Place #26 | The Phantom Carriage | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 4/8/21 – Shelter-In-Place #27 | Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report) | Jeffrey Johnson | Moleeds |
| 4/22/21 – Shelter-In-Place #28 | Paris, Texas | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 5/6/21 – Shelter-In-Place #29 | Au Revoir Les Enfants | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 5/20/21 – Shelter-In-Place #30 | The Browning Version | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 6/3/21 or 6/17/21 – Shelter-In-Place #31 | Before The Rain | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 7/1/21 – Shelter-In-Place #32 | Marketa Lazarová | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 7/15/21 – Shelter-In-Place #33 | The Big City | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 8/5/21 – Shelter-In-Place #34 | Le Havre | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 8/19/21 – Shelter-In-Place #35 | Outrage | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 9/2/21 – Shelter-In-Place #36 | Hoop Dreams | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 9/30/21 – Shelter-In-Place #37 | The Naked City | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 10/14/21 – Shelter-In-Place #38 | Hour Of The Wolf | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 10/28/21 – Shelter-In-Place #39 | Carnival Of Souls | Halloween Special VIII (Kevin O’Connor) | None |
| 11/18/21 – Shelter-In-Place #40 | Black Moon | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 12/2/21 – Shelter-In-Place #41 | Safety Last! | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 12/13/21 – 1/3/22 | Stray Dog / Rashomon (Film #425) / The Hidden Fortress | (At-Your-Leisure) Winter Marathon 14: Akira Kurosawa | None |
| 1/13/22 – Shelter-In-Place #42 | The Painter And The Thief | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 1/27/22 – Shelter-In-Place #43 | Man On Wire | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 2/10/22 – Shelter-In-Place #44 | Three Identical Strangers | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 2/24/22 – Shelter-In-Place #45 | Tread | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 3/10/22 – Shelter-In-Place #46 | The Imposter | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 4/7/22 – Shelter-In-Place #47 | Scanners | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 5/5/22 | Dune (2021) | Jeffrey Johnson, Return To In-Person! | None |
| 5/19/22 | Unforgiven | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 6/2/22 | The Long Good Friday | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 6/16/22 | The Lunchbox | Raisa Rahim | None |
| 6/30/22 | RRR | Raghava Salaka | None |
| 7/7/22 | Miami Connection | Preetham Ganupuru | None |
| 7/21/22 | All About Eve | Preetham Ganupuru | None |
| 8/4/22 | Eega | Raghava Salaka | None |
| 8/18/22 | L.A. Story | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 9/1/22 | Tommy Boy | Josh Downer | The Pre-Taped Call-In Show (Jeff) |
| 9/15/22 | Pig | Josh Downer | Flying Pig (KITH) |
| 9/29/22 | The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl | Brittany Rapone | None |
| 10/13/22 | Elvis | Kendall Stewart | None |
| 10/27/22 | A Tale Of Two Sisters | Halloween Special IX (Kevin O’Connor) | None |
| 11/10/22 | Thor: Love And Thunder | Carlee Neverkovec | Some Marvel short set in a convenience store |
| 12/10/22 | The Maltese Falcon (1941)/In A Lonely Place/The Big Sleep (Film #450) | Winter Marathon 15: Humphrey Bogart’s Film Noir | None |
| 4/13/23 | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 4/27/23 | Cléo from 5 to 7 | Jeffrey Johnson | “Porte de Choisy” and “Quartier Latin” from Paris, Je T’aime |
| 5/11/23 | Gloria | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 5/25/23 | The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 6/15/23 | Troy | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 6/29/23 | Fail Safe | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 7/20/23 | Keanu | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 8/3/23 | Wait Until Dark | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 8/17/23 | Old | Taylor Hamel | None |
| 8/31/23 | The French Connection | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 9/14/23 | Pinocchio del Toro | Kimchee Tran | None |
| 9/28/23 | Rocky | Jeffrey Johnson | None |
| 10/10/23 (Tuesday!) | CODA | Raisa Rahim | None |
| 10/26/23 | The Haunting | Halloween Special X (Kevin O’Connor) | None |
| 11/9/23 | The Namesake | Raisa Rahim | None |
| 11/30/23 | Polyester | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 12/16/23 | The Breakfast Club/Stand By Me/Ferris Bueller’s Day Off | Winter Marathon 16: ’80s Teen Movies | None |
| 1/11/24 | Judas And The Black Messiah | Raisa Rahim/SOMA Crossover | None |
| 1/25/24 | Murder On The Orient Express (2017) | Melissa Stroud | Last Clear Chance (Jeff) |
| 2/8/24 | A Haunting In Venice | Melissa Stroud | None |
| 2/29/24 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest | Taylor Hamel | None |
| 3/13/24 (Weds!) | The Prestige | Taylor Hamel | None |
| 3/28/24 | Get Carter (1971) (Film #475) | Kevin O’Connor | None |
| 4/11/24 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Dipannita Sarkar | None |
| 4/25/24 | The Mummy (1999) | Dipannita Sarkar | None |
| 5/9/24 | The Mummy Returns | Dipannita Sarkar | None |
| 5/23/24 | TBD | BIll Bennett | TBD |
| 6/6/24 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 6/20/24 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
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