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Now Playing: Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society, Friday 7:00 p.m., Saturday 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
This bland, awkward, hilarious comedy is a reflection of its main character, Napoleon Dynamite (Heder). Napoleon is a nerdy high school student wrapped up in his own fantasy world. His brother, Kiff, spends most of his time corresponding with his online girlfriend, LaFawnduh. Their Uncle Rico is a former high school football player who just can't seem to let go of the fact that his team didn't make it to state in '82. Napolean must help his friend Pedro get elected as school president. Come see this hugely popular cult comedy, back on the big screen in Sills.
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Now Playing: Amistad (1997)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society, Friday 7:00 p.m., Saturday 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
Hounsou, Hopkins, and Freeman lead an outstanding ensemble cast in the story of the revolt aboard the slave-ship Amistad and the subsequent trial.
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Now Playing: Secretary (2002)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society, Friday 7:00 p.m., Saturday 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
Lee (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a young woman recently released from a mental hospital, is very excited about her new job as secretary for Mr. E. Edward Grey (James Spader), a local lawyer.
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Now Playing: Team America: World Police (2004)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society
The fourth and best movie from the South Park guys features both intelligent political satire and marionette porn. Team America is the elite fighting force for America's policing of the world and fighting of terrorism.
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Now Playing: The Agronomist (2004)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society Friday 7:00 and 9:00 p.m., Saturday 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
Synopsis: Jonathan Demme, director of Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, tells the life story of Jean Dominique, Haitian journalist and human rights activist and the events leading up to his April 3, 2000, assassination. The screening is co-sponsored by the Department of Latin American Studies. Professor Allan Wells will present the film at the 7:00 p.m. Friday screening and give a talk afterwards.
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Now Playing: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society Friday & Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
Synopsis: Anxious, neurotic Joel (Carrey) and alternative, free-spirited Clementine (Winslet) enjoy a long relationship before breaking up somewhat acrimoniously. When he discovers that Clementine has patronized a new technology to erase him from her memory, an embittered Joel sets out to do the same. During the procedure, however, Joel rediscovers his love for Clementine and must fight through his own subconscious to reverse the process before his memory of her is gone for good.
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Now Playing: The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society Friday, 7:00 p.m., Beam Classroom Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Smith A
This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become kings in their own right. Sponsored by the Department of Classics.
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Now Playing: Bubba Ho-tep (2002)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society Friday & Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
At a nursing home in East Texas, Elvis (played by Bruce Campbell of the Evil Dead films) and JFK (who is, oddly enough, black) are alive and...well, they are in a nursing home. But the sudden appearance of a murderous Egyptian mummy at the facility forces these cultural icons to rally their strength to defeat evil. Strange, yes. B-movie bliss, also yes.
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Now Playing: Dead Alive
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society Friday & Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
Synopsis: Peter Jackson had a slightly smaller budget for this flick than for Lord of the Rings. Lionel (Balme) is young and in love. Suddenly, his mother is bitten by a Sumatran Rat Monkey, dies, and turns into a infectious zombie. This movie contains record amounts of blood and gratuitous zombie sex.
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Now Playing: Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society Friday & Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
In the interest of sparking even more debate and discussion on campus, we bring you one of the most politically charged, popular, and important films of the past year. This film, made by documentary filmmaker and activist Moore, attacks the behavior of the Bush administration after the September 11 attacks. He targets the war on terrorism, the misleading chase for Osama Bin Laden and the current state of affairs in Iraq. It may be muckraking with a very liberal bias, but it is an extremely influential film and everyone should see it before voting in November.
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Now Playing: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (1966)
Eastwood, van Cleef and Wallach are the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Watch as these three men battle each other for possession of a stolen cash box. No, this is not just another horse opera with black hats and six shooters. Sergio Leone's stunning visual style and Ennio Morricone's groundbreaking score (later to be covered by Metallica and all but copied in Kill Bill Vol. II) will redefine how you think about the western.
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Now Playing: Super Size Me (2004)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society Friday & Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
Eating nothing but McDonalds for a month straight might seem like a dream come true for some, but when Morgan Spurlock concocts his own Golden Arches meal plan, the consequences are nightmarish. Spurlock's shocking?and sometimes disgusting?descent into liver disease and heart trouble serves as a caustic critique of the fast food industry, which, he argues, is a chief cause of the American obesity epidemic. Don't miss this "Michael Moore lite" muckraking documentary; you just might swear off of Big Macs forever.
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Now Playing: Better Off Dead (1985)
Presented by the Bowdoin Film Society Friday & Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Smith Auditorium
John Cusack, clay-mation hamburgers, and numerous failed suicide attempts. All the traditional features of cinematic greatness are represented in this 80s staple.