Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. [Volume 39, Number 19, 1976.]

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VUWSA Films Coming: Memorial Theatre.

Kelly's Heroes: Tues 3 August 2.15pm

A World War II service comedy set during the allied advance across France. A group of noncoms and private soldiers, who learning that the Germans have stored gold bullion worth many millions in a town bank not far behind their own front lines, open up their own little attack in order to steal it. Burglary masquerading as fun bombs burst, buildings crumble, bridges collapse.

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles.

Director: Brian Hutton

The Godfather: Wed 4 Aug. 2.15pm

"Coppola's expert direction, and outstanding performances from Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, lift this story about machirating Mafia men into the epic class, alternation violence and domestic sentiment to keep the ironies flowing."

Sight and Sound.

Covering about a decade from the end of World War II to the mid 1950s, the Mafia is used as a metaphor for America: it conducts business like any major American corporation, but exaggerating the separation of business and personal ethics. Coppola perceives that the same confusion of values is characteristic of a whole generation of Americans. Watch for the sub-theme of sexual bias built into American society - the film constantly emphasises the priority given to the men in the Corleone family.

One of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment.

Starring: Marlon Brando, AI Pacino, James Caan.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola.

Taking Off: THurs 5 Aug. 5.00pm

Milos Forman in America with an amused, quizzical, refreshingly tolerant look at the generation gap through the eyes of parents. The film depicts the children's attempts to throw off the parental chains, and a view of the defeated, the soft and silly and incapable middle-aged, trying to come to terms with their runaway children.