Hollywood, History, and Politics
 
Wednesday Nights, @ 7:00 p.m.
in Social Work Building, Room 101
 

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
 

Return to Home Page

Sponsored by Professor Bob Buzzanco


x