THX 1138: A Tribute to Robert Duvall (15)
Director Francis Ford Coppola once praised Robert Duvall as "one of the four or five best actors in the world".
No surprise seeing as he played ‘adopted’ son to the Corleone Family in The Godfather, played a pivotal role in The Conversation and breathed life into the infamous "I love the smell of napalm in the morning". This May we pay tribute to the late actor with a rare screening of George Lucas’s seminal debut THX1138.
Rather than screen a familiar epic to pay tribute to Duvall, we will screen THX1138, the dystopian sci-fi feature debut by George Lucas, adapted from his student short film.
Citizens are controlled by android police, while emotions and individual thinking are suppressed by pharmaceuticals and sex is prohibited. Compliance is enforced so that inhabitants will execute dangerous tasks, identity is reduced to a code.
On release THX1138 received mixed reviews, though within a few short years Lucas changed the landscape of sci-fi filmmaking with Star Wars. This now revered film provides the perfect opportunity to experience ideas that would form both a blueprint to the original trilogy and to many subsequent films and TV series.