[Libri] "Dangerous Books!" film series starts next week

Fri Sep 19 01:35:40 EDT 2003

Dear Colleagues (apologies in advance for any cross-postings),

THE HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE CENTER FOR THE BOOK
invites you to its 
SECOND ANNUAL FILM SERIES

FALL 2003:  DANGEROUS BOOKS!

All screenings are free and open to the public (in fully accessible
facilities) and take place on selected Thursday evenings:

Franklin Patterson Hall
East Lecture Hall
7:00 p.m.

This year, the fall series is offered in conjunction with the new course,
"Dangerous Books" (HACU/SocSci 220).  We repeat some titles screened last
year, and add some new ones, as well.

We very much hope that you can join us!

Jim Wald, Mary Russo

[1]  September 25

"The Name of the Rose"
(1987; 128 min.; rated R)

monk meets with murder and mayhem in a medieval monastery:

"Sean Connery as a visiting Brother, investigating the deaths of a couple of
monks in a medieval Italian monastery, must find a connection between a
cache of hidden literature and the mysterious killings before a Catholic
inquisitor arrives to burn innocent people at the stake."

based on Umberto Eco's surprise bestseller of the same title.

[2] October 23

"Fahrenheit 451"
(1966; 112 min.; not rated)

fireman burns to understand books and reading:

"FAHRENHEIT 451 (the title refers to the temperature at which paper burns)
is set sometime in the future and follows Montag (Oskar Werner), a devoted
and obedient 'fireman' who excels in ferreting out books in the most obscure
hiding places. One day, after watching a woman sacrifice her life for her
forbidden library, he decides to keep a volume for himself, curious to learn
why these tomes are deemed so threatening. Soon he must choose between his
life as a civil servant--in which he follows orders and lives with a
listless, television-addicted wife, Linda (Julie Christie)--and his desire
to live as a free thinking man in a free society, inspired by subversive
schoolteacher Clarisse (Christie again)."

[3]  November 20 [***PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATE HAS CHANGED FROM THE ONE WE
ORIGINALLY ANNOUNCED***]

"Lolita"
(1962; 152 min.; not rated)

upstanding academic falls for adolescent:

Stanley Kubrick's film version of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial satirical
novel (screenplay by Nabokov himself):

"the obsessive love a British middle aged professor develops for a
12-year-old girl. While the novel outraged many bluenoses, the film advances
the age of the "nymphet" to about 15 thereby neutralizing much of of the
controversy.... LOLITA, a great grey comedy of the 1950s, succeeds in
carefully setting up and knocking down the shibboleths of the silent
generation."

[4]  December 4

"The Ninth Gate"
(1999; 133 min.; rated R)

sleazy rare-book dealer seeks tome written by Satan and gets more than he
bargains for:

"Dean Corso, (Johnny Depp) is a rather dubious rare book finder, whose
services are engaged by the owner of one of Europe's largest collection of
demonic texts. The prize of his collection is a 16th century tome entitled
"The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom, " a book containing nine etchings
that supposedly hold the key to summoning Satan himself. But duplicates of
the book exist and Corso is sent out to the corners of Europe to search for
the two remaining volumes. Corso becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving
murder, theft, and satanic ritual, ...and ultimately finds himself
confronting the devil incarnate."

Based on the novel, "The Club Dumas" (English edition 1996), by Arturo
Pérez-Reverte

Please see our web calendar (link below) for further information on these
and other events.
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