Sinatra, born Dec. 12, 1915, was a singer, actor and producer.
He used his global fame to fight bigotry and racism on a personal and international scale, according to an IU Cinema press release.
He died in 1998.
The first film will be a Monday matinee with “Guys and Dolls” at 3 p.m.
The film, released in 1955, is a comedy/musical/romance based on a 1950 Broadway show about a professional gambler under scrutiny by the police.
Next will be “The Man with the Golden Arm,” a drama/romance about a card dealer and heroin addict who was recently released from prison. The film will be shown at 3 p.m. Nov. 14.
“From here to Eternity” and “The House I Live In” will play at 3 p.m. Dec. 5.
“The House I Live In” is a 10-minute film created in 1945 to oppose anti-Semitism and racial prejudice at the end of World War II, according to the release.
It will precede “From Here to Eternity,” which is centered on the lives of those in the Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, Hawaii, around the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The film won eight Academy Awards in 1954 including the award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, which went to Sinatra.
Finally, “Ocean’s 11” will play at 7 p.m. Dec. 12, the same day as Sinatra’s birthday.
The 1960 film is a comedy/crime about the large-scale theft of five casino vaults in Las Vegas.
Tickets for each film are $3 and may be purchased online then picked up at the IU Auditorium box office during regular hours or 60 minutes prior to any screening, according to the IU Cinema website.
The cinema will have four events today, beginning at 3 p.m. with a lecture by Roger Hallas titled “A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography and Documentary Film.”
Hallas is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University and the author of “Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness and the Queer Moving Image.” The lecture is free.
Next will be the “Experimental Hitchcock Shorts Program,” which will include four experimental creations made from the works of Alfred Hitchcock: “2 Spellbound,” “4 Vertigo,” “Hitchcock Trilogy” and “Psykho III The Musical.”
It will begin at 6:30 p.m. and is free but ticketed.
“Mommie Dearest” will play at 9:30 p.m. as part of the Friday Night Frights series.
The 1981 drama is a portrayal of Joan Crawford based on Christina Crawford’s memoir about her abusive adoptive mother. Tickets cost $3.
At 11:59 p.m., the IU Cinema will screen “Hausu,” or “House,” a comedy/fantasy/horror film. According to the release, it is “an hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos and a demonic house cat.” Tickets cost $3.
Cassie Heeke
