Cinephiles lost and found
Although the screens of Cinema at the Whitney go dark this semester, other film societies on campus are ready for their close-ups.
The now defunct Cinema at the Whitney, funded approximately $30,000 a year by the Whitney Humanities Center, hosted two free weekly movie screenings in 35mm and garnered a reputation for intellectual fare.
“In general, we try to offer a wide variety of films, in terms of nationalities, periods, and genres,” said Cinema co-founder Jeremi Szaniawski GRD ’10 last spring. “[But spring semester ’08 was] our most ‘highbrow’ yet.”
That was the problem,...
