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# Santa Monica College Political Film Series Moves to Larger Venue This Fall
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/community-briefs-20061003/
- Published: 2006-10-03T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T21:30:37.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Pico, #archive-import

*COMMUNITY BRIEFS*

*By Daily Press staff*

Due to overflow crowds, Santa Monica College’s new political film series is moving to a larger venue and will continue throughout the fall semester with poignant movies and audience discussions.

The screenings will move to Science Lecture Hall 145, 1900 Pico Blvd. Six films will be screened through Nov. 20\. All are free and begin at 6:30 p.m.

The films focus on contemporary political issues, including race, war, corporate power, crime, religion and the media. Political Science Professor Alan Buckley and Film Studies Professor Josh Kanin will host and moderate the after-screening discussions.

The remaining lineup of films is: OCT. 9 — “Seven Days in May” — The 1964 movie, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, is about a military plot to take over the U.S. government, written by Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone") and directed by John Frankenheimer ("The Manchurian Candidate").

OCT. 23 — “Network” — Sidney Lumet’s 1976 scathing satire about the uses and abuses of network television with Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight (each of whom won Oscars for their performances) whose most famous line is “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

NOV. 6 — “Thank You for Smoking” — Jason Reitman’s brazen satire of corporate profits and what lobbyists will do to protect them. It features Robert Duvall, Rob Lowe and William H. Macy, among others.

NOV. 13 — “Inherit the Wind” — Stanley Kramer’s 1960 film that gives a slightly fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial of the 1920s in which a young Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution in a public school. Spencer Tracy plays the role based on Clarence Darrow, the eloquent defense attorney, and also featured are Fredric March and Gene Kelly.

NOV. 20 — “A Clockwork Orange” — Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 masterpiece starring Malcolm McDowell that takes a dark and satirical look at a government experiment that attempts to reform criminals through an unorthodox new medical treatment.

For information, call (310) 434-4588 or (310) 434-4510.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 3, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/100306.pdf?ref=smdp.com)