Cult and Classics

The Seven Samurai (aka Shichinin no samurai) (1955)

Tuesday 12th March - 7:30 pm in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre (South Junction)

"The Mighty Warriors Who Became the Seven National Heroes of a Small Town"

This is the first ever great action movie - an epic. It sets the standard against which all other action films are judged.

Caligula

Wednesday 20th March - 7:30 pm in the Chadwick Lecture Theatre (Civil Engineering - Quadrangle)

Dir: Tinto Brass
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole.

"What would you have done if you had been given absolute power of life and death over everyone else in the whole wide world?"

This is film who's reputation preceeds it. It documenting the true story of the power, and subsequent madness of the emperor Caligula. Look past the controversy and find a truly classic film.

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