Dive into NAU's film series: The water's fine

Northern Arizona University's Department of Humanities, Arts, and Religion put some teeth in its spring movie series focus on water with Jaws, Moby Dick and other classics, including Bridge on the River Kwai and Chinatown.

The free series begins at 7 p.m. Jan. 17 with the Academy Award-winning Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable.

Films in the series will be shown Tuesday nights in Cline Library Assembly Hall.

The series' theme, "On the Ocean, Up the River, Under the Sea, Aboard Ship," features both classic and more recent popular films and a tribute to two legendary directors, Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa.

Welles' films in the series will be Lady from Shanghai and Touch of Evil, and Kurosawa's films include Seven Samurai and Rhapsody in August.

Other movies during the semester-long series will be Show Boat, The Rains Came, Now Voyager, Spellbound, Fitzcarraldo, Bladerunner, Indochine, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Flood, The Return, and Amistad.

The films were selected by Joseph Boles, series director and chair of the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Religion, and Paul Helford, senior lecturer in the School of Communication, from suggestions made by community members attending past screenings.

Boles and Helford also introduce and discuss the films with the audience.

The series schedule can be found online, or call (928) 523-3881 for information.