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UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 19, Feb. 13, 1997
Cinema series in Georgetown

     World Cinema III," a free, public series of international
films, will be shown by UD in Georgetown on five Thursdays from
Feb. 20 through May 1, at 7 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, Room 529,
of the Higher Education Building in Georgetown. Introducing the
films will be James Keegan, Anne Colwell and Mark McLeod, all UD.
     The series opens on Feb. 20 with Burn!, directed by Gillo
Pontecorve. Marlon Brando stars as a British agent sent to
investigate a slave rebellion on a Portuguese-controlled, sugar-
producing Caribbean island. The film is in English.
     Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Gerard Depardieu, will be shown
Thursday, March 6. This definitive film version of Edmund
Rostand's romantic classic, in French with English subtitles, is
directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.
     Scheduled for March 20 is Black and White in Color, a biting
satire of the French colonial regime in West Africa and its
recruitment of Africans to fight against the neighboring German
colonies during World War I. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, the
film is in French with English subtitles.
     Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander, an engrossing family
tale, will be shown April 17. Film critic Pauline Kael has
described the film as a "beribboned present of his Freudian-
Gothic dream world." The film is in Swedish with English
subtitles.
     The series concludes May 1 with Paths of Glory, directed by
Stanley Kubrick. Kirk Douglas stars in this shattering study of
the insanity of war, set in the trenches of World War I.
     The film series is sponsored by the Division of Continuing
Education, the Parallel Program and the University Outreach
Program. For more information, call 831-6779 or contact McLeod
via e-mail at Mark.McLeod@mvs.udel.edu