Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 5. March 30 1981
VUWSA Films
VUWSA Films
Wed 1 April 2.15pm.
Murder on the Orient Express
GB 1974. 131 minutes.
The best of the multi-star, Agatha Christie adaptations. Hercule Poirot is entrusted the task of discovering who-dunnit. Ingrid Bergman got an Academy Award for her role.
Thur 2 April 5.00pm.
The Deerhunter
US 1978. 182 minutes
"Presumably the audience has to guess the point, if any; meanwhile it may be repelled by this long and savage if frequently engrossing film." (G. Halliwell).
For a film claiming to be the definitive word on the American experience in Vietnam, the failure to explore any of the moral questions involved is, to say the least, questionable. More valid as a statement about wars in general, perhaps.