The Winter Break is a great time to relax, decompress after a big semester and the trials of the last year, and explore those things you don’t have time for normally. The Libraries offer a great selection of popular films for checkout (almost 5,000!) but sometimes if travel’s in your future having to keep track of a library DVD is more trouble than it’s worth when your free time is on the line. Thankfully the libraries have you covered!
You may have seen one of our Kanopy Streaming films in your class assignments but did you know there are many films in their collections that fall outside the purely academic? While you may not find the newest blockbusters populating Netflix and Amazon, Kanopy’s got a great selection of important films from cinema history and modern classics. They’re easy to browse and watch, all you’ll need is your usual Loyola login information and you’ll be able to stream their films on any handy platform from your computer to your iPhone! To check out what they’ve got to offer, head over to luc.kanopystreaming.com and browse their mainpage, search for a film by title or actor, or browse their popular films from the “Subjects” menu at the top of the page.
Here are just a few examples of the films you will find when you explore what Kanopy has to offer:
Horror/Drama
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
by Ana Lilly Amirpour
“Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the town’s most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom…blood red.”
Romance
In the Mood for Love
By Wong Kar-wai
“Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite–until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments.”
Comedy
Rhinoceros
by Tom O’Horgan
“The film version of Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist play tells of a French city where the citizens begin to turn mysteriously into rhinoceroses. Zero Mostel creates his Tony-winning Broadway role. Includes the marvelous Karen Black.”
We hope you explore and enjoy what Kanopy has to offer this holiday season and relax with a good film or two!
-The Library AV Department
libraries.luc.edu/media
