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Event Type(s):
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Arts / Theatre / Music
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Organization:
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Wexner Center for the Arts
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Description:
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Retrospective: Joe Dante
Eminent film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum describes Joe Dante as "one of the most personal directors working in Hollywood" and calls his work "the perfect refutation of the idea that popular American comedies have to be simple." During this selected retrospective, you’ll be able to revel in how Dante consistently creates giddy entertainments that are also sophisticated satires. We'll augment the Wexner Center screenings, which will focus on Dante's most explicitly and subversively satirical work, with additional screenings throughout the month at the Gateway Film Center.
Small Soldiers
Jonathan Rosenbaum called Dante's film Small Soldiers a pointed, smarter, and more accomplished rebuke to Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, in theaters at the same time.
A shipment of toy soldiers lays siege to a small Ohio town when their military microchip implants are programmed to declare war on enemy toys. Despite major studio interference with the film, Dante's cynical take on consumer culture and warmongering breaks through. With Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman (in his final role), Denis Leary, and the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella. (110 mins., 35mm)
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Address:
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1871 North High Street
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Colulmbus, Ohio 42310
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Date:
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Friday, 10/1/2010
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Start Time:
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7:50 PM
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