This week’s CineCulture film, “The Great Dictator,” will be screened at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, in the Leon S. and Pete P. Peters Educational Center in the Student Recreation Center (Woodrow and Shaw avenues). The 125-minute film features Charlie Chaplin as the Great Dictator who brings his sublime physicality to two roles: a cruel yet clownish “Tomanian” dictator and a kind Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Chaplin mocks Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini’s fascism, anti-Semitism and the Nazis in the film as “machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts.” The Jewish Studies Certificate Program is a co-sponsor of this screening. INFO: Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu. Original Press Release. Roger Ebert Review (2007).
