I did a vanity search today for the phrase “fucked up movie night”, and was astonished to find that FUMN was cited in an academic article!
“Besides video and DVD rentals and purchases, the film is still being shown in theatres around the world. Indeed, in January 2001, the Royal Cinema in Toronto played an Ilsa double feature, presenting Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS at 9:15, and Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks at its 11:30 PM show. Paradise Cinema in Toronto also showed the double feature. It has also been shown on college campuses. For instance, Associated Students of UC Davis advertised it ironically as “the heart-warming, inspirational World War II epic” for a free-screening, Lewis and Clark College played it during its “alternative movie night,” and Rochester Institute of Technology showed it for “fucked up movie night.””
— Rapaport, Lynn – “Holocaust Pornography: Profaning the Sacred in ‘Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS,'” in Shofar, 22, Fall 2003
I’m not sure what pleases me more, the fact that showing “Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S.” was enough to get us into a scholarly journal, or that the credit (blame?) for showing the film was given to RIT as opposed to “The Committee”. =)
On that subject, tomorrow is FUMN #16 at 9:45pm in the conference room below Kate Gleason Hall. We’ll be landing in Rochester tonight around midnight, and will likely go directly to Nick’s. Be there or be somewhere else.
Whoa! Dammit, if weren’t swamped with work this weekend I’d head to SFO and wait on standby for a flight to ROC.
That would be awesome….
I’d love to come to a FUMN in the future. now that jet blue flies out of o’hare this is much more feasible. any idea when the next one is?
I’ll tell you when it won’t be again: In the fucking winter! I don’t know how I fell into this January/February schedule for FUMN, but I feel like an idiot for doing so…
I seem to only be doing one a year now, so I’d guess some time in the Fall or Spring quarters…
I have a shit ton of work to get done in the labs this weekend but I’ll swing by to steal food and see a a film or two.