Science on Screen®: Snowpiercer (2013)

Science on Screen® at Images Cinema is made possible through a grant from the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The theme of our 2024-25 season of Science on Screen® is "Eco-Disaster: How We Imagine Humankind Will Navigate Global Catastrophe." SNOWPIERCER will be preceded by a discussion with Dr. Alice C. Bradley, Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Williams College and Dr. Victoria Papa Associate Professor, English, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Each talk will be unique to the academic focuses of each speaker, and will delve into both the actual scientific probability of such disaster occurring — and if it will occur as depicted in the film — and the veracity of the human responses to directly avoid said catastrophe and/or the psychological/sociological effects of the catastrophe coming to pass. In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.ActionPT3HR2025-01-29

Chris Evans

Song Kang-ho

John Hurt

Tilda Swinton

Jamie Bell

Octavia Spencer

Ed Harris

Alison Pill

Bong Joon-ho

Miky Lee

Jeong Tae-sung

Jeong Won-jo

Steven Nam

Science on Screen®: Snowpiercer (2013)"Science on Screen®: Snowpiercer (2013)"

Showtimes

January 29, 7:00 pm