After getting the wrong DVD format for a film, exciterbulb — a film series in the English department — was delayed. Only one screening is set for the series so far, but the film club the Claude Rains Appreciation Society has three scheduled, including “Malta con huevo,” or “Scrambled Beer.”
The Claude Rains Appreciation Society is once again presenting the exciterbulb film series.
The first exciterbulb film screening of the spring semester has been rescheduled because of a DVD region error.
“They were going to have the screening on Feb. 11 and they had to cancel it at the last minute because they couldn’t find a DVD player for the disc,” Louis Sylvester, a former Claude Rains Appreciation Society vice president and current member, said. “It’s a region five copy of this movie.”
The United States and Canada produce region one DVDs and DVD players, while region five DVDs are meant for Eastern Europe, among other regions.
The film the group plans to show is one group president Kimberly Tolson looks forward to seeing.
“It’s a Russian horror film,” Tolson said. “It sounds fantastic.”
Tolson said the exciterbulb screening will probably be rescheduled to March and an announcement will be made to people on the CRAS and exciterbulb e-mail list when a date is set. She also said this will probably be the only exciterbulb screening this semester.
CRAS and members of the screen studies faculty organize exciterbulb, which is an on-campus film screening series. CRAS is the screen studies program’s official student organization.
“CRAS and exciterbulb are pretty closely linked, but still somewhat independent because CRAS is entirely student run, whereas exciterbulb is run largely in cooperation with the faculty,” Chelsey Crawford, the treasurer of CRAS, said. “CRAS is more of our little baby that just we get to be involved in.”
Sylvester encourages people to attend CRAS screenings considering the limited number of exciterbulb screenings.
“This isn’t as big as exciterbulb,” Sylvester said. “We’re not in the big theater, but the movies we show are absolutely as good.”
Crawford said anyone is welcome to attend the free CRAS and exciterbulb screenings, with the only prerequisite being that you want to come watch the films and have a discussion about them.
Crawford helped explain what CRAS’s purpose is.
“We don’t really want to screen things that everybody could just go home and get off of Netflix,” Crawford said. “The purpose is essentially to screen, what you might call, unseen cinema; things that most of us have never been exposed to before.”
Tolson said CRAS has three remaining screenings scheduled for the rest of the spring semester.
The next screening is Cristobal Valderrama’s “Scrambled Beer,” or “Malta con huevo,” on Feb. 26, followed by a Belgian film on March 11 and a Japanese film on April 15.
All screenings are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in 303 Morrill Hall.
CRAS members do not have to pay dues and all screenings are free.
Tolson said anyone can get information on CRAS by contacting her or Hugh Manon, CRAS’s faculty adviser.
There is also a Facebook group named “exciterbulb” that contains information on CRAS and exciterbulb screenings, as well as other film screenings on campus.
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