Chilton Hall offers students the chance to see movies missing from Blockbuster's shelves. At 7 p.m. Wednesday in room 111C, Chilton will be showing HOP, the second film in a series of nine from its Film Movement series. The Chilton Hall media library subscribed to the Film Movement series, which is similar to a book of the month club, and receives a new film each month. Sue Parks, head of the media library, selected HOP, as well as the other films in the series, for their exclusivity.

Parks said, "It allows students to see things they can't usually see. Makes these rare films available to students." According to its Web site, Film Movement's films are distributed exclusively through its program. The Web site claims Film Movement's award-winning movies represent the diversity and quality of cinema in the U.S. and around the world. Even though Film Movement's movies aren't released nationally, they have earned critical acclaim and awards at the Lincoln Center, the American Film Institute, South by Southwest, Cannes and the Sundance Film Festival.

HOP, a Belgian drama, which was the official opener at the Ghent International Film Festival in 2002, is the story of a young man named Justin and his attempts to reunite with his father who has been deported. In order to fight the system that took his father from him, Justin must apply the secret of the HOP. The black-and-white film is in French and Dutch, so viewers will have to read English subtitles. The first film in the series, The Party's Over, shown on Sept. 1, received a turnout of about 30 people, according to Parks. Parks believes the turnout was partly due to the film's political slant.

The series, which according to Newsweek was "designed to reach the ordinarily neglected movie lover," is doing just that. With a wide variety of films, including documentaries, foreign and feature films, students looking for something a little out of the ordinary may find that the films in the series are just what they're looking for.

"It's very rare that I find a movie that I want to see in theatres," Alana Rosen, Lubbock sophomore, said. "They are all the same. It gets very redundant. I'm glad that they've decided to show something I actually might enjoy."

The library will continue to show a film from the series once a month through May. All films are free and open to the public.

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