October 1st: Burn Starring Marlon Brando as a brilliant opportunist hired by the British military to "provoke" struggle against the Portuguese in the Caribbean, and remains one of the most beautiful and wrenching dramatizations of the struggle of an oppressed people in the so-called New World. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, also director of Battle of Algiers
October 8th:
Dr.
Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Starring
Peter Sellers in a hilarious and frightening spoof of nuclear war, an
all-time
classic!
October 15th:
Bread and Roses This film is a must-see for anyone with
an
interest in how life can be lived in the United States in this new era
of globalization. Starring academy-award winning actor Adrien Brody in
a story of Mexican immigrants trying to organize a union
October 22d: Battle
of
Algiers Chronicles the Algerian war for independence
against
the French in the 1950s, now required viewing at the Pentagon, directed
by Gillo Pontecorvo
October 29th:
Romero Starring Raul Julia as the Bishop of El
Salvador
murdered by U.S.-backed Death Squads
November 5th:
Hair Quintessential '60s film, music, drugs, sex,
anti-war
messages
November 12th:
Easy Rider Jack Nicholson and Bikes, 'nuff said
November 19th:
Alice's Restaurant Arlo Guthrie's story of Thanksgiving
in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 27 photos with circles and arrows on the
back
of each one, and blind justice
December 3d: Bowling
for Columbine Michael Moore's academy-award winning video
about
gun violence in America, featuring Marilyn Manson and Charlton Heston
Sponsored by Professor
Bob
Buzzanco