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The IfA Theater is a weekly movie-night event that is run by and for the IfA graduate students. Based on a similar event that was held by physics/astro grads at the Ohio State University, graduate students nominate and vote for films based on a weekly theme. Movies are screened every Tuesday at 7pm in the Manoa auditorium during the academic year.

Current Schedule (Fall 2008)


  • 9/2: A La Carte
  • 9/9: Comics
  • 9/16: Web of Intrigue
  • 9/23: WC1
  • 9/30: A Bit Melancholic
  • 10/7: Martial Artistry
  • 10/14: Living the 90s
  • 10/21: WC2
  • 10/28: Halloween Horror
  • 11/4: Disastrous Films
  • 11/11: WC3
  • 11/18: Boom!
  • 11/25: Food and Family
  • 12/2: WC4
  • 12/9: Un-Hollywood
  • 12/16: This Holiday Season

Wildcards (WC)


Every semester 4 wildcard films are screened without a vote. Wildcards are nominated by the grads on a first-come-first-serve basis.

  • Wildcard #1: 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Wildcard #2: I Heart Huckabees
  • Wildcard #3: Waking Life
  • Wildcard #4: Kung-Fu Panda

Previous Themes


  • 80s Cartoons
  • A La Carte
  • African-American Experience, The
  • All the Saints
  • Americana
  • Animation (General)
  • Animation (CG)
  • Anime
  • April Fools
  • Autumn Memories
  • Back-2-School
  • Benigni, Roberto
  • Best of (year)
  • Better Off Dead
  • Bicycles
  • Black and White Movies
  • Bluth, Don
  • Burton, Tim
  • Colorful Title, A
  • Comics
  • Conspiracy
  • Cusack, John
  • Day in May to Roll in the Hay, A
  • Disney
  • Eastern Pride
  • Fairy Tales
  • Feeling Spiritual
  • Few Stars Short of a Cluster, A
  • Filmed in Hawaii
  • Football
  • Foreign Films (Non-English)
  • Freedom Films
  • From Stage to Screen
  • Gangsters
  • Geeks
  • Good TV Movie?!, A
  • Halloween Horror
  • Hail to the Chief
  • Hawaiiana
  • History Lesson
  • Holier Than Thou
  • Indies
  • Just for Sport
  • Ironside, Michael
  • “Ketchup” Films (2006)
  • Kung-fu Fighting
  • Kubrick, Stanley
  • Listen to the Music
  • Long Live the 80s
  • Love is in the Air
  • Lucky 13
  • Movies Mark Probably Hates
  • Music
  • Must-See
  • Obscure Reference
  • Ode to my Liver
  • One-liners
  • Science Fiction
  • Salute the Troops
  • Snipers
  • Star Trek Movies
  • Sundance
  • Swords & Sorcery
  • Technocracy
  • This Holiday Season
  • Trials and Tribulations
  • Under the Sea
  • Valentine Romance
  • Well Documented
  • What's in a Number?
  • When in Rome....
  • You Haven’t Seen _____?!
  • Your Lucky Day
  • Your Mama

Previous Films


  • 11:14
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • After Hours
  • Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
  • Amadeus
  • Apartment, The
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Aristocrats, The
  • Army of Darkness
  • Batman Returns
  • Battle Royale
  • Being John Malcovich
  • Big Lebowski, The
  • Big Sleep, The
  • Blade Runner
  • Blue Velvet
  • Blues Brothers, The
  • Boondock Saints, The
  • Brazil
  • Brian’s Song
  • Brothers Grimm, The
  • Bubba Ho-Tep
  • Caddyshack
  • Castle in the Sky
  • Citizen Kane
  • Clockwork Orange, A
  • Closer
  • Cloverfield
  • Dazed and Confused
  • Departed, The
  • Dirty Harry
  • Donnie Darko
  • Down By Law
  • Dr. Strangelove
  • Easy Rider
  • Elizabeth
  • Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind
  • Fearless Vampire Killers, The
  • Few Good Men, A
  • Fight Club
  • Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
  • Finding Nemo
  • Firefly (Selected Episodes)
  • Five Obstructions, The
  • Flight of Dragons
  • Flushed Away
  • From Hell
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Ghosts of Rwanda
  • Harold and Maude
  • Heavy Metal
  • House of Flying Daggers
  • I Heart Huckabees
  • Inconvenient Truth, An
  • In the Womb
  • Incubus
  • Jurassic Park
  • Koyaanisqatsi
  • La Battaglia di Algeri
  • Layer Cake
  • Life is Beautiful
  • Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The
  • Lost in Translation
  • Luther
  • Macross Plus
  • Magnolia
  • Miller’s Crossing
  • Mitsabi’s Dream
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Muppet Christmas Carol, The
  • Muppet Treasure Island
  • Occupation: Dreamland
  • Order, The
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
  • Secret of NIMH, The
  • Secretary
  • Shaolin Soccer
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Simpsons Movie, The
  • Sleepy Hollow
  • Spartacus
  • Spawn
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Director’s Cut)
  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
  • Star Wars: Ep I & II
  • Star Wars Original Trilogy, The
  • Starcrash
  • Story of 1, The
  • Syriana
  • Thank You for Smoking
  • Thumbsucker
  • Thunderball (James Bond)
  • Transformers
  • TRON
  • Twelve Chairs
  • Vending Machines
  • Waking Life

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