Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts

10 February, 2016

Apocalypse Now

“Wednesday Movie Club” at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
The film Apocalypse Now (1979) was presented to all who wish to improve their language skills with staring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall.
Apocalypse Now is producer/director Francis Ford Coppola's visually beautiful, ground-breaking masterpiece with surrealistic and symbolic sequences detailing the confusion, violence, fear, and nightmarish madness of the Vietnam War.
Plot: During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
In 2000, Apocalypse Now was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, for films deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
WOA’s patrons enjoyed the film and the discussion that followed.
Number of participants – 8.
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17 December, 2014

Good Morning, Vietnam

The Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk offered screening of the war-comedy film Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) with Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran starring.
Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American war-comedy film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson.
Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service, who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infuriates his superiors with what they call his "irreverent tendency". The story is loosely based on the experiences of AFRS radio DJ Adrian Cronauer.
Most of Williams' radio broadcasts were improvised. The film was a critical and commercial success; for his work in the film, Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. 


The film is number 100 on the list of the "American Film Institute's 100 Funniest American Movies".

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