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M*A*S*H - BIFF Patron's Pick
Sat
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Sat 29 Nov 2:00 PM
Palace Barracks, Cinema 1
General Admission
November
"This movie, so wildly subversive, had a huge cultural impact. It was released at the height of the Vietnam war yet, slyly, it was set during the Korean War to reinforce its allegorical heft. In the same way Kubrick’s ‘Dr Strangelove’ did before it and PTA’s ‘One Battle After Another’ seems to be doing today it resonated deeply with the Zeitgeist. When I saw M*A*S*H one afternoon in 1970 I was so blown away I walked out into the street and turned right back and watched it again. It was the moment I realized I was truly hooked on Cinema." George Miller
M*A*S*H, directed by Robert Altman, is a razor-sharp, dark comedy set in a Korean War field hospital where irreverent army surgeons use humor, pranks, and defiance to cope with the horrors of war. Blending satire and heartbreak with surgical precision, the film broke conventions and became a counterculture classic, inspiring a sub-genre of tongue and cheek, playful films set during a war. A massive critical and commercial success, M*A*S*H won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and earned five Academy Award nominations, winning Best Adapted Screenplay.
The inaugural pick from BIFF's Patron George Miller is, undoubtably, one of those critically successful films you just have to make the time to see, at least once.
M*A*S*H, directed by Robert Altman, is a razor-sharp, dark comedy set in a Korean War field hospital where irreverent army surgeons use humor, pranks, and defiance to cope with the horrors of war. Blending satire and heartbreak with surgical precision, the film broke conventions and became a counterculture classic, inspiring a sub-genre of tongue and cheek, playful films set during a war. A massive critical and commercial success, M*A*S*H won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and earned five Academy Award nominations, winning Best Adapted Screenplay.
The inaugural pick from BIFF's Patron George Miller is, undoubtably, one of those critically successful films you just have to make the time to see, at least once.