Zachary Bruton, tenor. Music of Beethoven, Liszt and Wolf. Doctoral Chamber Music Recital 8 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall. Music of Mendelssohn and Messiaen. Doors open one-half hour prior to screening and close 15 minutes after listed screening time.
Double features count as one screening for subscription passes.
Captures the historical Opium War from a Chinese perspective. In an effort to rid Chinese society from the devastating effects of opium being peddled by English merchants, Emperor Daoguang appointed a court commissioner to ban opium and reprimanded the British. The Chinese suffered continued defeats and further humiliation when the British colonized Hong Kong and continued to smuggle opium into China. Following muckraking journalist George Seldes as he encounters Pershing, Lenin, Mussolini, J. Edgar Hoover, the tobacco industry and the lords of the press, this film provides a fresh perspective on 20th-century American journalism and democratic process. The story of two orphaned boys who, together with a wounded dog, find shelter in the home of a poet.