This Is the End is a surreal comedy film featuring celebrities, playing themselves, coming face-to-face with the apocalypse. The movie doesn’t open until June 12, 2013, but you can see it next week! We have free passes for a screening of This Is the End for Wednesday, April 24th. The film will screen at the […]
Continue readingCollection highlight: Global Lens 2012
As the academic year comes to a close, we’ve acquired an interesting film collection that’s worth a special mention. In their own words, the Global Film Initiative “promotes cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema.” Their board includes such esteemed filmmakers as Pedro Almodóvar and Lars von Trier. Each year, the GFI chooses a selection […]
Continue readingWe’re on Google+ now!
Hey everyone – we just opened shop over at Google+. Thanks to wonderful Google integration, our Google+ page will feature all of our wonderful blog content. If you’re subscribed to our RSS feed and will miss Google Reader once its gone, or if you’re just looking for something new to spice up your feed, add […]
Continue readingHappy Earth Month! Take a tour, see WALL-E, and more
If you’ve noticed all the mulch and plants on campus today, you’re probably aware that it’s Campus Beautification Day. In coordination with Office of Sustainability’s Earth Month, members of the AU community spent the morning recycling old electronics and prettifying campus. It’s part of a month-long series of events to celebrate AU’s commitment to going […]
Continue readingHot Docs: The Uprising of ’34
Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we’ve recently added to our collection. The Uprising of ’34 (DVD 10617) tells the story of a massive but largely unremembered textile worker strike from 1934. It was at the time the largest labor strike in the history of the United States and lasted for nearly a month, greatly […]
Continue readingSorry, VHS players. The Blu-rays are in!
For the longest time, Media Services has helped patrons view movies on-site with over a dozen DVD-VHS combo players. Sadly, they’re falling apart and hard to maintain, and fewer patrons are using VHSes now than even a few years ago. We’ve future-proofed ourselves by replacing the majority of our stations with new Blu-ray-DVD players. They’re […]
Continue readingFinals approach, and it’s too hot out, so have a free movie!
It’s 86 degrees in Washington right now. Wasn’t it just snowing a few weeks ago? As the semester rolls to a close and summer is bounding over the horizon, you probably need an excuse to stay in and relax. You’re in luck: we’re giving away another batch of digital copies of movies! This time, you […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – April 2013
We’re at the end of our purchasing season, so we’re adding one more batch of new titles for the semester. We have a couple Oscar nominees (Les Misérables, Anna Karenina, Life of Pi, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey), a few enlightening documentaries (including biographies of famous composers and an economist), some movies we probably […]
Continue readingMedia Services joins the library on a Muslim Journey
As part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, American University is participating in Muslim Journeys, part of the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf program. In addition to a number of new book acquisitions and a series of discussions from AU professors and scholars, Media Services has acquired three […]
Continue readingThe Invisible War screening on campus tonight at 8pm
The Invisible War, the 2012 documentary about sexual assault in the US military, has made significant waves in the military community since its release; then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta used the film as a starting point for broader program to address sexual assault in the military. It’s a powerful documentary. It may be emotionally difficult […]
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