Autonomy Films present Paths of Glory, 1957, 88mins, Black & White.
7.30pm Sunday 13th November 2011 in The Hay Loft (above the Stables at the Bull Hotel). East Street, Bridport. £3 entry (less if you can’t afford it)
While the UK public expresses respect for those who lost their lives in two world wars, Stanley Kubrick’s feature film highlights the incompetent leadership, callousness towards rank-and-file soldiers and bureaucratic dishonesty that cost many of those lives.
The French General Staff orders Colonel Dax to take Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal blunder, the Generals charge three soldiers, chosen by lot, with cowardice and mutiny. Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, rises to their defence but soon realises that, unless he can prove the Generals were to blame, he cannot save his men from the firing squad.
Kirk Douglas stars in this classic drama set in WWI, an “unforgettable movie experience”.
Other Events
Autonomy films: The Shock Doctrine. Naomi Klein’s look at the rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Dorset Room, Colliton Club,
Colliton Park, Dorchester,
7.30pm. Wednesday 9th November.
Free entry (donation)
Monkton films: Black Gold. A look at the darker side of coffee.
Monkton Wyld Court
7.30pm. Thursday 17th November.
Dorset Palestinian Israeli Peace Group: Poetic Injustice. Remi Kanazi, writings on resistance and Palestine.
7.30pm. Corn Exchange, Dorchester.
£4 entry, £2 unwaged.
Lectures on Everything: film premiere of Paul Goodman Changed My Life. On the social critic who played a key role in the ideas that launched the 1960s. Plus discussion with the film’s director Jonathan Lee and Horatio Morpurgo, author of a new book Lady Chatterley’s Defendant & Other Awkward Customers that includes essays on Goodman’s ideas about education.
Marsh Barn, Burton Road, Bridport
8.00pm. Sunday 20th November.
£7 entry
Sherborne Palestine Support Group with Yeovil and Sherborne Stop the War Coalition: Stolen Children, Stolen Lives. Arrests and abuses of Palestinian children in the West Bank.
Unity Hall, Central Rd, Yeovil.
7.30pm. Tuesday 22nd November.
