FILMSCENE 101: NUCLEAR MOVIES
Wednesday screenings are accompanied by a FilmScene 101 lecture by our resident senior projectionist and scholar of nuclear cinema, Lee Sailor.
"A terse, lean terror with a big, swinging tail."—Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
"Rarely has the open wound of widespread devastation been transposed to celluloid with greater visceral impact."—Budd Wilkins, Slant Magazine
"Honda's satire is cutting."—Keith Uhlich, Time Out
Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning almost thirty sequels.