Duke theater hosts free films
Advertiser Staff
The Honolulu Academy of Arts hosts two very different free film series in the first two weeks of November. The first, Tuesday through Nov. 10, focuses on cinematic approaches to the Vietnam War. The second, Wednesday and Thursday, is a tribute to acclaimed Spanish director Helena Taberna.
All films will be screened at the Doris Duke Theatre.
RE-VIEWING VIETNAM: FILM REPRESENTATIONS OF THE VIETNAM WAR
956-3032, 532-3033
This drama, set in 1990, focuses on the odyssey of a young man, whose mother was Vietnamese and father was an American soldier, as he searches across the Pacific for his American family.
Presented by Konrad Ng, curator of film and video, Honolulu Academy of Arts; and Mark Heberle, professor of English, University of Hawai'i-Manoa.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday
John Wayne co-directed this pro-war film. He plays Col. Mike Kirby, who teaches a journalist to embrace the war.
Presented by Peter Britos, professor of English and film, UHM.
4 p.m. Nov. 4
A detachment of U.S. advisers and Vietnamese irregulars is ordered to occupy an abandoned French outpost.
Presented by Mark Heberle.
7:30 p.m. Nov. 4
The story of a Marine wife who comes to love both a paraplegic veteran and her husband, who returns from the war psychologically and physically wounded.
Presented by Brian Cassity, professor of history, Kapi'olani Community College.
1 p.m. Nov. 5
Capt. Willard is on a mission to assassinate a Green Beret colonel who seems criminally insane.
Presented by Mark Heberle.
4 p.m. Nov. 5
The lives of three friends from a working-class community in Pennsylvania are changed forever by the war.
Presented by Glenn Man, professor of English and film, UHM.
7:30 p.m. Nov. 7
A traumatized Vietnam veteran, in a small town in search of the last surviving member of his Green Beret squad, is persecuted by the sheriff's department and reacts violently.
Presented by Craig Howes, professor of English, UHM, and director, Biographical Research Center, UHM.
4 p.m. Nov. 8
Winner of four Oscars, including best film. An accusation of war crimes splits the platoon.
Presented by Brien Hallett, professor, Matsunaga Institute for Peace, UHM.
7:30 p.m. Nov. 8
A young woman's husband has been killed in the line of duty, but because she is unable to break the news to her family, she persuades the local schoolteacher to forge letters from her dead husband.
Presented by Pierre Asselin, professor of history and political science, Chaminade University.
4 p.m. Nov. 9
A melodrama about the latter years of French colonialism in Indochina, through the eyes of a wealthy plantation owner.
Presented by Duane Arthur Rudolph, professor of history, UHM.
7:30 p.m. Nov. 9
Documentary focuses on the common issues of anguish produced by the war shared by American and Vietnamese women.
Presented by Konrad Ng.
4 p.m. Nov. 10
A documentary about the reactions in the Vietnamese-American community of Southern California after a shopkeeper displayed a communist flag and pictures of Ho Chi Minh in his window.
This documentary follows three Americans as they journey back to their ancestral homelands.
Both films are presented by Stephen O'Harrow, professor, Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific languages and literatures, UHM, with special guest, nationally renowned Vietnamese-American journalist and fiction writer Andrew Lam.
7:30 p.m. Nov. 10
LATIN(O) AMERICAN AND IBERIAN CINEMA: GALA FILM SCREENINGS OF HELENA TABERNA
www.hawaii.edu/llea/spanish/filmconference, 956-4440.
A look at the world through the eyes of Asian, Latin American, African and European women who left their countries of birth and now call Spain home.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Yoyes, the first woman to hold and then renounce a position of responsibility within the Basque separatist organization ETA, returns from exile in Mexico.
7:30 p.m. Thursday
