Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers.Based on Gustav Hasford's novel The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill instructor Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey, a real-life drill instructor whose performance is one of the most terrifyingly realistic on record). Part two takes place in Nam, as seen through the eyes of the now thoroughly indoctrinated marines. Ironically, Full Metal Jacket was filmed almost entirely in England.DISCUSSIONTuesday, April 11th @ 9:30pmOn Kubrick & Full Metal Jacket: A Conversation with Matthew ModineIt's been over 25 years since actor Matthew Modine starred in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, but the memories and the experience are as vivid as ever. Matthew will participate in a Q&A via phone after the screening of Full Metal Jacket and discuss his experience working with Kubrick in the making of the film, answer audience questions and his celebrated book Full Metal Jacket Diary and offer a preview of the engrossing and beautiful iPad app based on the book.