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Volume CXXXII, Number 12 |
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Warfare on campus
AUDREY AMIDON
STAFF WRITER
Bowdoin Film Society is returning for another exiting semester of movie fun in Smith Auditorium. This semester's schedule should provide some more interesting titles than what you can find at Hoyt's. In honor of the special Gods and Generals screening on Monday evening, we'll be starting off with films about war.
First, on Friday at 7:00 p.m., we'll be showing Le Roi de coeur (1966), a French film that takes place during World War I.
This is an odd little film that has become a cult classic because of its offbeat characters. Alan Bates plays a private named Charles Plumpick who has to deactivate a German bomb. What he comes upon is a town deserted by everyone except the inhabitants of the insane asylum. After attempting to get the villagers out of town, Charles has to deactivate the bomb that will destroy them. Also starring are Pierre Brasseur and Jean-Claude Brialy.
On Saturday at 7:00 p.m., the Film Society is presenting the special redux version of Apocalypse Now (1979). This Francis Ford Coppola classic is set in the Vietnam War and is based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness. The film stars greats such as Marlon Brando as Col. Walter E. Kurtz, Robert Duvall as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, and Martin Sheen as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard, the narrator of the film. In smaller roles are Harrison Ford, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper.
In this film, Captain Willard is given the mission to find and kill Colonel Kurtz, who has set himself up as a leader of a local group of people. As Willard's men become immersed in the jungle, they begin to be picked off one by one and start going insane. The original film is two and a half hours long-the new version adds over fifty minutes of additional footage which fans of the film consider to be essential. A lot of film kids are pretty excited about this special showing on the big screen, so it should be an incredible experience.
On Monday, January 27, at 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium will hold a special night with the director of the upcoming film Gods and Generals, Ronald F. Maxwell.
Kid Wongsrichanalai (arguably Bowdoin's biggest Civil War buff) put this event together. The film itself stars Jeff Daniels as Bowdoin's own Joshua Chamberlain, Stephen Lang as Stonewall Jackson, and Robert Duvall as Robert E. Lee. The film will not be released until February 21, but Bowdoin students are allowed a sneak preview-a half hour screening followed by a question and answer session with Maxwell, who also directed the 1993 film Gettysburg.
Gods and Generals provides a special opportunity for film fans and students alike. It should not be missed.
Tickets are available at the Smith Union Information desk.
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