Feature Stream: Paint

 

"Owen Wilson stars as Carl Nargle, Vermont's #1 public TV painter who is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves."

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Feature Stream: The King's Man

 

"As a collection of history s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them. Discover the origins of the very first independent intelligence agency in The King's Man."

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• Assassins' Creed
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• The Shape of Water

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Feature Stream: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

 

" A timid teenager copes with the pains of adolescence with the help of two new friends, a beautiful high-school senior and her gay stepbrother." 

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• Black Panther 
• Clash of the Titans

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Freed Between The Lines: Banned Books Week Panel Discussion

You are invited to a Banned Books Week faculty panel moderated by Mitch Ogden, Director, Honors College.  This event is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served. 

The faculty panel:

• Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Interim Executive Director of Inclusive Excellence
• Lopa Basu, Professor, English, Philosophy & Communications Studies
• Alexander Bozzo, Assistant Professor, Director, Center for Applied Ethics

When: Tuesday, September 24th, 4:15 - 5:30 PM

Where: Robert S. Swanson Library & Learning Center, 2nd Floor

For more Banned Book Week resources: https://www.ala.org/bbooks

This event is sponsored by the Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation, UW-Stout Library, Center for Applied Ethics, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Honors College, Literature Committee, Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Feature Stream: Your Brain: Perception Deception

"Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you cant always trust what you perceive. In the first hour of this two-part series, learn what the latest research shows about your brain processes and shapes the world around you, and discover the surprising trick's and shortcuts your brain takes to help you survive."

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• Vampire Legend 
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Feature Stream: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse

" Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero. "

   

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• Covid Diaries NYC
• Gone with the Wind
• 10 Things I Hate About You 

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Feature Stream: Free Guy

"A bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story…one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way… before it is too late. "

   

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• The King's Man
• Isle of Dogs
• The Chronicles of Melanie

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Feature Stream: ASL - Learn Deaf Culture. History, & CODA

"Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL etiquette and how to properly communicate with people of the Deaf Community. Storytelling, builds narrative skills appropriate for all new learners. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of each lesson and each topic revolves around sharing information about our environment and day to day life. 

Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. Students will learn conversational strategies to help maintain a conversation along with interaction activities allowing students to rehearse what they’ve learned in each lesson. This series is an easy-to-learn, step-by-step approach complete with drills and practice exercises to increase signing ability and understanding. Featuring ASL teacher and interpreter Clarissa Story and deaf student Rachel signing in her own words teaching conversation skills on the subjects taught, after each lesson. 

In this program students will learn how to sign about deaf culture, history and CODA."

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• Jim Henson Shorts
• On-Gaku: Our Sound
• Dogs Don't Wear Pants

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Feature Stream: Artificial Intelligence

"Trace the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) from simple calculating machines to computers that can vanquish chess masters. Learn the distinction between weak AI, such as a chess-playing machine, and strong AI, which is a machine that has a truly human-like mind. Question whether strong AI is even possible."

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• Dororo
• Z (2019)
• The Whale

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Feature Stream: So Long, My Son

"Two families in China face upheaval over three decades of social, political and human upheaval in China. After a tragic loss, their paths diverge, and fortunes change. A quest for truth and reconciliation remains despite life's twists, and goodbyes take a lifetime."

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• Decision to Leave
• Psycho Goreman
• The Boss of It All

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Feature Stream: The Queen of Ireland

 

"This documentary follows drag queen Panti Bliss, created by Rory O’Neill. Since the Pantigate scandal in 2014, Panti has become a figurehead for LGBT rights in Ireland and her fight for equality has become recognized across the world.

Winner of Best Irish Film and Best Documentary at Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards. Official Selection at the European Film Festival"

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• Mad God
• Tigers Are Not Afraid: Vuelven
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Feature Stream: Run Lola Run

 

"A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride, RUN LOLA RUN is the internationally acclaimed sensation about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out for Lola (Franka Potente). She's just received a frantic phone call from her boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who's lost a small fortune belonging to his mobster boss. If Lola doesn't replace the money in twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences. Set to a throbbing techno score, "Lola's like a human stun gun!" Peter Rainer, New York Magazine."

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• Good Bye Lennin!
• The Class
• The Merchant of Venice

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Feature Stream: Everything Everywhere All At Once

 

"When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through the multiverse."

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• Sympathy for the Devil
• Color Out of Space
• Golda
  
  

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Feature Stream: Who We Are

"Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in WHO WE ARE — A Chronicle of Racism in America, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America."

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Feature Stream: Woman in Motion

"Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space."

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• Suspiria
  
  

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Feature Stream: Signing Black in America

"This is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities. Black ASL today conveys an identity and sense of belonging that mirrors spoken language varieties of the African American hearing community. The program highlights the different uses of space, hand use, directional movement, and facial expression, which are ways that Black ASL distinguishes itself as a vibrant dialect of American Sign Language. The African American Deaf community is now embracing their unique variety as a symbol of solidarity and a vital part of their identity. "

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• The Big Payback
• 400 Years Taking the Knee
  

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Feature Stream: The Five Demands

"THE FIVE DEMANDS is a riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located in the heart of Harlem. Fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation, the strike soon turned into an uprising, leading to the extended occupation of the campus, classes being canceled, students being arrested, and the resignation of the college president."

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• 93Queen
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Feature Stream: Snowpiercer

"A revolution brews on a train containing the last of humanity in this sci-fi film set during a new ice age. When the lower classes in the back cars decide to invade the upper classes in the front, the superpowered locomotive speeds toward tragedy."

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• 42nd Street
• A Clockwork Orange
• A Serious Man

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