Film projector loaded with film

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Doc at 90

The nation's oldest student film society, by the numbers.

23

Times Doc has screened its most-shown film, Stanley Donen’s Bedazzled (1967)

16

Times it has shown runner-up Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)

3

Number of Fritz Lang films shown 12 or more times

129

Films shown eight or more times

1989

Latest release year of a movie shown at least eight times (Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing)

61

World, US, Midwest, and Chicago premieres held at Doc

8 1/2

Movie first shown at Doc April 5, 1968, in the series “Recent Italian Cinema”

1 1/2

Years until Federico Fellini’s classic was shown again, in “Masterpieces of Italian Cinema”


Updated 02.15.2023 to correct the release date for Do the Right Thing to 1989.