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If you’re kicking around Columbus Ohio on Wednesday, May 20th, at around 7:00pm with nothing particularly planned and you’ve always wanted to see Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence on the big screen…well, you won’t believe your luck.
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Described as a “thinking man’s Bridge on the River Kwai,” Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is probably Oshima’s best-known film in the United states.
Two rock icons star as arch-enemies in a WWII POW camp in Java. David Bowie plays an imprisoned major and Ryuichi Sakamoto is the fanatical commandant increasingly fixated on his blond prisoner. Sakamoto also created the film’s hypnotically spare music track. (122 mins., 35mm)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Wed, May 20, 2009, 7:00pm
Film/Video Theater
1871 North High Street
Columbus Ohio 43210-1393
Located in the Wexner Center’s lower level
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Click on Bowie’s sun-bleached barnet for more information.