He came from nothing. He conquered everything. Director Ridley Scott’s epic historical drama charts the French Emperor’s journey to power through the lens of his volatile relationship with Empress Josephine. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English
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In Vietnam, the wind doesn’t blow. It sucks. Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English, Vietnamese
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Fencing is a science. Loving is a passion. Duelling is an obsession. During the Napoleonic Wars, a rivalry erupts between two lieutenants in the French Army over a perceived insult. Unanimously won Best Debut Film at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English, Russian with English subtitles
Read MoreFear and Desire (1953) 4K Restoration with The Seafarers (1953) 4K restoration
Posted on October 11, 2023
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere 70 years ago, legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s ambitious first feature follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines. Presented with the short film The Seafarers (1953), Kubrick’s first color film and one of his only surviving documentary works. | Country: United States | Language: English
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Q&A on Saturday, October 14 at 1:00 PM. | Audience Award Winner, 2023 Sundance Film Festival. A team of Ukrainian AP journalists trapped during the siege of Mariupol capture the atrocities of the Russian invasion. Selected as the Ukrainian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. | Country: Ukraine | Language: Russian, Ukrainian, English with English subtitles
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Vietnam on Film: 50 Years Later at Gateway Film Center | Reception at 12:30pm, 35mm presentation at 1:45pm | Winner of four Academy Awards. Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English, Vietnamese
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“Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.” This Cannes Jury Prize winner is based on Kurt Vonnegut’s celebrated anti-war novel about a writer who tells a non-chronological story centered on his experiences as a soldier in World War II and as a time-traveler. | Country: United States | Russian, English, German, with English subtitles
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One of the greatest comedies of all time. After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English, Russian
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Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus Language: German, Farsi, French, Italian, EnglishA young Jewish man pretends to be Persian to avoid being executed in a concentration camp. He survives by inventing words of “Farsi” and teaching them to the head of camp. But he will not be able to keep his secret very long. A 2020 Berlin Film Festival selection from the director of 2003’s House of Sand and Fog.
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Country: United States Language: English, French, VietnameseVietnam on Film: 50 Years Later | Presented by Gateway Film Center in partnership with the National Veterans Museum, the National Veterans Film Festival, and the Ohio History Connection. Experience this definitive version of Francis Ford Coppola’s vivid Palme d’Or-winning war epic, the final presentation in the series.At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission to locate – and eliminate – a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
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