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GODZILLA

Directed by: Ishiro Honda

Runtime: 96 min

Year: 1954

Country: Japan

Rated: Not Rated

Language: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Film Type: Dramatic

Post-film discussion about the impact of the film with a faculty member from the University of Utah, moderated by KUER's RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio.

American nuclear-weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast. When seventeen vessels blow-up and sink nearby Odo Island, Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko Yamane and the marine Hideto Ogata head to the island to investigate. Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning almost thirty sequels.

 


Presented as part of our Through the Lens series, which for 2022 features a collaboration with the University of Utah’s Department of Film and Media Arts to present an extended exploration of what many Film Lovers regard as the “Classic Films” in cinematic history.

Screening presented in partnership with:


Through The Lens series presented in partnership with:
KUER 90.1RadioWest


Through The Lens series funded in part by:

 
Wednesday, November 9 @ 7:00 PM

In Person |

The City Library

FREE

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