{"article":{"id":31317,"heading":"Cal State Fullerton International Film Series "PEACE AND WAR ON PLANET EARTH"","author":"Helene Domon, PhD","created":"2003-02-25 22:21:37","modified":"2013-11-10 23:48:41","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:48:41","article":"

PROGRAM

Sunday, March 2, 5:30 pm

COME AND SEE. USSR, 1985, by Elem Klimov, starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova, 142 min. A crowning achievement of 1980s Soviet cinema, this film depicts World War II in Belarus through the eyes of a young boy.

Discussion: Dr. Robert W. Davis Jr., Dr. Robert Feldman, Dr. Charles Frazee and Pavel Shabunin.

THIS OPENING EVENT WILL BE FOLLOWED

BY A FREE RECEPTION

Sunday, March 9, 5:30 pm

THE ATOMIC CAFE. Documentary, USA, 1982, by Pierce Rafferty and Jayne Loader, 88 min. A compilation of film footage highlighting some of the absurdities of the Cold War.

DR. STRANGELOVE. USA, 1964, by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers, 93 min. A classic black comedy featuring an insane general whose personal pathology sets in motion the possibility of worldwide nuclear destruction.

Discussion: Dr. Phillip L. Gianos.

Sunday, March 16, 5:30 pm

THE THIN RED LINE. USA, 1998, by Terrence Malick, starring Sean Penn, 170 min. A painfully realistic depiction of a World War II battle in the South Pacific between the Americans and Japanese, as well as a moving philosophical meditation on the twin instincts of aggression and love.

Discussion: Dr. Cornel Bonca.

Sunday, March 23, 5:30 pm

A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES. Iran, 2000, by Bahman Ghobadi, 80 min (Kurdish language). An extraordinary film with a haunting soundtrack, painting a true-life tale of five orphaned siblings struggling for life just off the Iraqi border in Iranian Kurdistan.

Discussion: Dr. Touraj Daryaee.

Sunday, March 30, 5:30 pm

VIETNAM ACCORDING TO HOLLYWOOD. Excerpts from Vietnam War movies: Heaven and Earth (1993, by Oliver Stone), Platoon (1986, by Oliver Stone), Casualties of War (1989, by Brian De Palma), Hamburger Hill (1987, by John Irvin, starring Kieu Chinh), Apocalypse Now (1979, by Francis Ford Coppola), Full Metal Jacket (1987, by Stanley Kubrick).

SAIGON USA. Documentary, USA, 2002, by Lindsey Jang, Robert C. Winn and Jeffrey Brody.

Discussion: Jeffrey Brody and Kieu Chinh.

Sunday, April 6, 5:30 pm

CLOSE, CLOSED, CLOSURE. Documentary, Israel\/ Palestine, 2002, by Ram Loevy, 53 min. Life in Gaza, from both sides.

BETHLEHEM DIARY. Documentary, Palestine, 2001, by Antonia Caccia, 60 min. The film focuses on the day-to-day life of two Palestinian families and an Israeli human rights lawyer during the Israeli occupation of Bethlehem.

Discussion: Dr. William Haddad and Dr. Benjamin Hubbard.

Sunday, April 13, 5:30 pm

THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK. USA, 1974, by Lamont Johnson, starring Martin Sheen and Mariclare Costello, 122 min. The true story of the only American soldier to face execution for desertion since the Civil War.

Discussion: Dr. Helen Jaskoski and Mariclare Costello.

Sunday, April 20, 5:30 pm

THE COLOR OF FEAR. Documentary, USA, 1994, by Lee Mun Wah, 90 min. A groundbreaking film about the state of race relations in America as seen through the eyes of eight men of various ethnic groups.

EVERYONE’S CHILD. Zimbabwe, 1996, by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 85 min. The story of two orphaned children in Zimbabwe and their abrupt journey into a world of adult responsibility.

Discussion: Dr. Carl Jackson and Dr. Wacira Gethaiga.

Sunday, April 27, 5:30 pm

CONTACT: THE YANOMAMI INDIANS OF BRAZIL. Documentary, USA, 1990, by Geoffrey O’Connor, 26 min. This film depicts the plight of the Yanomami Indians of Brazil's Amazon rain forest, whose traditional homelands are being invaded by gold miners.

BARAKA. USA, 1993, by Ron Fricke, 96 min. Filmed in 24 countries and set to an ever-changing global soundtrack, the movie draws some surprising connections between various peoples and the spaces they inhabit, whether that space is a lonely mountaintop or a crowded cigarette factory.

Discussion: Dr. Barbra Erickson and Geoffrey O’Connor.

Sunday, May 4, 5:30 pm

GRAVE OF FIREFLIES. Japan, 1988, by Takahata Isao, 93 min. An animated anti-war picture set in Tokyo in the aftermath of the firebombings of World War II, seen through the eyes of two children.

Discussion: Dr. Kristine Dennehy and Dr. William Haddad.

Sunday, May 11, 5:30 pm

GERMANY, PALE MOTHER. Germany, 1980, by Helma Sanders-Brahm, 123 min. The film follows the story of a German mother and her daughter as they struggle through the last years of World War II and the immediate post-war years.

Discussion: Dr. Curtis Swanson.

Sunday, May 18, 5:30 pm

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. USA, 1962, by Richard Goldstone and John Monks Jr., starring Jeffrey Hunter and Marshall Thompson, 114 min. As the only American serviceman left on the island of Guam during the three years in which the Japanese controlled the surrounding seas, Tweed (Hunter) slowly but surely learns to survive with a hero's bravery and fortitude.

IMUA TAMUNING EAGLES. Documentary, Guam, 2003, by Vicente M. Diaz, Herman Crisostomo, and Michael P. Perez. This documentary traces the itinerary of a Guam football team against the backdrop of US military colonialism.

Discussion: Dr. Michael P. Perez and Vicente M. Diaz.

Sunday, May 25, 5:30 pm

THE OFFICIAL STORY. Argentina, 1985, by Luis Puezo, starring Norma Aleandro and Héctor Alterio, 112 min. The mother of an adopted child discovers the connection between her daughter, her husband and a friend who was tortured during the dictatorship from 1976-1983 in Argentina.

Discussion: Dr. Sandra M. Pérez-Linggi

THIS CLOSING EVENT WILL BE FOLLOWED

BY A FREE RECEPTION

All events take place in

Humanities Building, Room 110

CSU Fullerton

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