Southern Outsiders Film Series

In conjunction with their STRANGER IN PARADISE: THE W0RKS 0F REVEREND H0WARD FINSTER show (see below) Auburn's Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is sponsoring a Southern 0utsiders Film Series which explores the question what it means to be an outsider in the South [to which all we can say is - if you have to ask...].

So come celebrate the outsider-inside-you at the series' first film January 27th: C00L HAND LUKE, starring the young, hunky, and sometimes sweaty Paul Newman, hated on, and even incarcerated by those who want to help him 'get his mind right.' Here's hoping that he never does.

All five films in the series show on Thursdays, at 6pm. Each is followed by a discussion led by a member of the Auburn faculty examining the complex role of the outsider in films about Southern culture and whether such a designation is more due to matters of race, class, legal status, sexual identity, or religious or political beliefs.

C00L HAND LUKE will be moderated, appropriately enough, by Kyes Stephens, Director of the amazing Alabama Prison Arts Education Project. Should you not know, the Alabama Prison Arts Education Project is a fairly radical and amazing program, bringing studies in Art, Literature, Photography, Creative Writing, and more to persons held in the Alabama Prison System, and in doing so, opening up the possibility of hope, expanded vision, and transformation to those who are so held.

More info on the Alabama Prison Arts Education Project is at http://media.cla.auburn.edu/apaep/index.cfm. More on JCS' Southern 0utsiders Film Series is at http://jcsm.auburn.edu/edu/2011_southern_outsiders_film.php.

So get on up, conceal as necessary the insider-outside-of-you or the outsider-inside, and come on down. And don't forget to take a prayer with the Reverend Finster if you haven't already.

FILM SERIES SCHEDULE (all films at 6 pm):
Thurs, Jan 27 -- Cool Hand Luke (1967; dir. Stuart Rosenberg w/ Paul Newman)
Thurs, Feb 3 -- Norma Rae (1979; dir. Martin Ritt w/ Sally Fields, Beau Bridges, 0pelika)
Thurs, Feb 10 -- The Apostle (1997; directed by & featuring Robert Duvall)
Thurs, Feb 24 -- Idlewild (2006; dir. Bryan Barber w/ Big Boi & Andre 3000)
Thurs, March 3 -- Inherit the Wind (1960; dir. Stanley Kramer; Gene Kelly and Spencer Tracy)
Thurs, March 10 -- 0 Brother, Where Art Thou (2000; dir. Joel & Ethan Coen w/ George Clooney, John Turturro)