[Netnews-action] Aug: 'A' bomb films & leafletting

[michael]

nuclear films @ Cornerhouse cinema, Oxford Road (0161 200 1500)

If you are able to help out with leafleting before or after any of these
films/talks let Jacqui at CND (0161 273 8283) know. There will be a free
ticket (or 2) in it for you.
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     Saturday 20th August, When the Wind Blows. Murakami’s moving
animation, based on the novel by Raymond (Snowman) Briggs.  An elderly
couple enjoy their retirement until one day they experience a nuclear
blast firsthand.


   Sunday 21st August, Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb.  Stanley Kubrick directs Peter Sellers and
George C. Scott showing the compete lunacy of war.  Sellers takes on
three roles in this tale of men in command of the war and the button
that will drop the nuclear bomb.  One of the best and most effective,
anti-war films ever made.


   Wednesday 24th August, 5pm.  One Hour Intro: Nuclear Nightmares.
Talk by Andy Willis, Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at the
University of Salford.  Post-apocalyptic wastelands, genetic mutations
and outrageous monsters have all been part of the big screen response to
the threat and actuality of nuclear attacks.  From Japan to Britain,
from Italy to Hollywood, film makers have found a variety ingenious and
chilling ways to articulate the deep seated fear of nuclear war and its
aftermath that gripped much of the plant following the end of World War
II. This one hour introductory level talk will discuss nuclear tinged
cinematic monstrosities including Godzilla, crazed Italian bikers and an
array of zombie mutations.  


   Saturday 27th August.  Barefoot Gen (animation). Based on Nakazawa’s
autobiographical manga.  The story of 10- year-old Gen who lives with
his family in Hiroshima during the waning days of World War II.  The
family struggle to survive, the desperate lack of food and amenities
exacerbated by the family’s ostracism by their neighbours, due to their
unpopular pacifist views.  But on 6th August, their life will be altered
in a way they could not imagine and young Gen must fight to deal with
the fallout.


   Sunday 28th August.  Hiroshima, Mon Amour.  French Director Resnais’
first feature.  In 1959 a married French actress shooting in Hiroshima
spends the night with a Japanese man she meets in a bar.  Their pillow
talk reveals pasts badly scarred by war.  A poetic mediation on memory,
loss and love


   Wednesday 31st August.  Kiss Me Deadly.  Directed by Robert Aldrich
from the novel by Mickey Spillane.   A classic pulp noir of the fifties
and a savage critique of Cold War paranoia.  Don’t miss this rare chance
to see it on the big screen.