Location: MIT Room 7-431 (Cambridge, MA) MAP

“On Tuesday, January 31, please join us for a noon-to-midnight Movie Marathon featuring films on topics related to urban planning, environmentalism, affordable housing, design, development, globalism, and the nature of regions, cities, and neighborhoods. In addition to feature-length films and documentaries, we’ll include a few shorts, cartoons, and other small gems from the vault.”

Approximate Schedule:

12:00 PM — Urbanized (2011, Gary Hustwit, 85 min)

1:30 PM  — Liquid City (2007, Matthew Gandy, 30 minutes)

2:00 PM  — Big City 1980 (1961, CBS Television, 53 min [excerpt])

2:30 PM  — Waste Land (2010, Lucy Walker, 99 min)

4:30 PM  — Radiant City (2006, Jim Brown and Gary Burns, 93 min)

6:20 PM  — Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati, 155 minutes)

9:10 PM  — The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1988, Whyte, 60 min)

10:20 PM — At Home in Utopia (2011, Michal Goldman, 57 min)

11:20 PM — Brooklyn Matters (2007, Isabel Hill, 50 min)

Full program and film notes available here. Come for one or stay for all.  Popcorn (all day) and pizza (around 6:00 PM).

For more information, please contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, x3-2024, eglenn@mit.edu.

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