The Great Transition:
World Cinema in the 1950s
Lecturer: Jonathan Rosenbaum
From Sept. 5 through Dec. 12, we offer a series of fourteen programs entitled The Great Transition: World Cinema in the 1950s, with weekly lecture/discussions by Jonathan Rosenbaum, internationally renowned film critic for the Chicago Reader and author of numerous books including Discovering Orson Welles. The series is made possible in part through the sponsorship of American Airlines, the Film Center’s Educational Underwriter, and is presented in cooperation with the School of the Art Institute’s Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism. Please note that this year’s lectures are on Wednesday, rather than on Tuesday as in previous years. Admission to these programs is $4 for Film Center members; usual admission prices apply for non-members.
THE STEEL HELMET
1951, Samuel Fuller, USA, 84 min.
With Gene Evans, James Edwards
The first Korean War film, this tale of an infantry platoon cut off behind enemy lines has the raw urgency of a blood-spattered dispatch smuggled back from the front. It still seems amazingly modern, tackling such issues as military racism, shooting unarmed enemy POWs, and fighting a war whose purpose seems more capitalistic than humanitarian, all served up in Fuller’s punchy, provocative style. 35mm. (MR)