Pirates Highjack This Week's Film Series at Student Center
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 27, 2013) – The Late Night Film Series is screening “The Fifth Estate” at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29. “The Human Resources Manager” will be screened at 7 p.m. and “Captain Phillips” at 10 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30. Also being screened this week are “Wasteland” at 7 p.m. and “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” at 10 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31. All films are free and located in Worsham Theater.
In “The Fifth Estate,” Julian Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful when they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to leak covert data anonymously. (Rated R, 128 minutes).
Separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter, and stuck in a job he hates, “The Human Resources Manager” tells the story of Jerusalem’s largest bakery’s HR manager’s trouble when one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing. Accused of indifference, the HR manager is sent on a mission to the victim's hometown in Romania to regain his company’s reputation and, perhaps, his own humanity. (Unrated, 103 minutes).
“Captain Phillips” examines the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates focuses on the relationship between the Alabama's commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips, and the Somali pirate captain, Muse. Phillips and Muse are on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips' unarmed ship. The ensuing standoff, 145 miles off the Somali coast, finds both captains at the mercy of forces beyond their control. (Rated PG-13, 134 minutes).
Artist Vik Muniz travels to the world's largest landfill, in “Wasteland,” to collaborate with a lively group of catadores, pickers of recyclable materials. (Rated R, 100 minutes).
In the first installment of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” mega-franchise, we meet the dashing Will Turner, elegant Elizabeth Swan, and loony Jack Sparrow. The trio takes part in swashbuckling adventures from port-to-port in one of the most successful amusement park ride adaptations in cinematic history. (Rated PG-13, 143 minutes).
Worsham Theater is located on the first floor of the University of Kentucky Student Center Addition. Center Theater is located on the second floor of the Student Center. All Late Night Film Series screenings are free to students, staff, faculty and guests. For more information, contact scfilmseries@gmail.com. All screenings are sponsored by the Student Center Director’s Office.
MEDIA CONTACT: Gail Hairston, 859-257-3302, gail.hairston@uky.edu