BFS presents:’3-2-1′ Program on 24,25,26 August

August 21st, 2007

Bangalore Film Society presents ‘3-2-1′, a weekend of three films that remember the lesson that the world forgot.
radio:…garrison already decimated by the Vietcong, who lost 115 of their men…
woman: It’s awful, isn’t it, it’s so anonymous.
man: What is?
woman: They say 115 guerrillas, yet it doesn’t mean anything, because we don’t
know anything about these men, who they are, whether they love a woman,
or have children, if they prefer the cinema to the theatre, We know
nothing. They just say…115 dead.

Jean Luc Godard in ‘Pierrot Le Fou’

There was a lesson to be learnt. Over two days in August when the earth forgot to breathe, over 200, 000 corpses and charred earth. A lesson learnt under the great white mushroom of the urgency of peace and the horrors of modern warfare, of dark days and doomed generations, of extermination of life. It was a lesson that should have been remembered.

As we are urged by the world around to count what comes after ‘1-2-3′, let us remember that moment in history that teaches us to count after ‘3-2-1′

Friday 24th August, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) (126min) Dir: Roland Joffe
An epic saga of the moral and ethical bankruptcy of the officials and scientists of the Manhattan Project that ushered the world into the nuclear age, ‘Fat Man and Little Boy’ chronicles General Leslie Groves’ misuse of power as he guides the naïve scientists under him into developing and testing the very first atomic bomb. Nominated for the Golden Bear, Berlin 90′.

Saturday 25th August, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (96min)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick’s masterpiece, written by counter-culture guru Terry Southern and starring Peter Sellers in 3 different roles- a cutting satire of politics, paranoia and power struggle set in the Cold War is disturbingly as urgent and as crazy as ever even more than forty years after it was first screened. US Air Force General is worried about the Russians’ ‘poisoning all our precious bodily fluids’ and calls for nuclear warfare. What he isn’t aware of is that the Russians have perfected a doomsday machine which would retaliate and destroy the whole world in case of Russia being attacked, all because ‘it was to be announced at the party convention next week’. Adding to the chaos are a worried president, an exchange officer from Britan, an obese ambassador, a philandering Air Force Chief and a pilot with severe Wild West delusions.

Sunday 26th August, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Hiroshima Mon Amor (1959) (90min) Dir: Alain Resnais

In Hiroshima, 14 years after the bomb was dropped, a French Actress falls in love with a Japanese architect during the filming of an international peace film. Weaving through the poetry of conversation and unforgettable images Director Resnais crafts a profound and moving elegy to shroud the victims and the survivors and the memories that remain. A milestone in cinema, Hiroshima Mon Amor was nominated for the Palm D’Or at Cannes, 59.

Venue: Ashirvad, 30, St. Mark’s Road cross, Op. State Bank of India

Tel: 2549 2774/ 2549 3705/ 9886213516

ADMISSION FOR MEMBERS ONLY. NON-MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO ARRIVE 15
MINS EARLY AND REGISTER.
(Members whose membership has expired are requested to kindly renew
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