The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
with director W.D. Richter '68 in personBuckle up for an outrageous ride with this classic sci-fi action comedy, starring Peter Weller, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum and John Lithgow.
Dr. Buckaroo Banzai is a real renaissance man: a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot and even a rock musician. Is there anything he can't do?! Ellen Barkin and Jeff Goldblum lead a team of loveable oddballs who join forces to save the world from the evil Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow) and his gaggle of interdimensional aliens (including Christopher Lloyd!), intent on stealing Buckaroo's latest invention, the "oscillation overthruster."
Don't miss this chance to become a teenager again for an all-ages screening of what RogerEbert.com describes as "your typical sci-fi/action/comedy/rock&roll/kung-fu/political satire/neo-western/guys-on-a-mission extravaganza." And remember: "No matter where you go…there you are." That's right, Buckaroo is a philosopher too!
D: W.D. Richter '68, US, 1984, 1h43m
Discussion follows with director W.D. Richter '68, moderated by Chris Robinson '86
Soft-spoken and dryly funny, Richter tells Hollywood war stories that make you wonder how any movie ever gets made. His road west started at Dartmouth—he arrived on campus in 1964 from New Britain, Connecticut, "the hardware capital of the world," on an academic scholarship and the assumption that he would continue his high school football career. A knee injury put the kibosh on that and kept him out of Vietnam in the bargain. As an English major, he took classes with newly arrived professors Alan Gaylord and Peter Saccio. He also attended Arthur Mayer's legendary film history course and soaked up movies at the Dartmouth Film Society and the Nugget.
Richter—"W.D." in onscreen credits and "Rick" to anyone who knows him—wrote a baker's dozen of scripts from 1973 to 2005. They include the flaky road comedy Slither (1973, directed by Howard Zieff), the early-Hollywood tribute Nickelodeon (1976, directed by Peter Bogdanovich), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, directed by Philip Kaufman)—one of the few remakes as good as, if not better than, its original—and the Robert Redford prison movie Brubaker (1980, directed by Stuart Rosenberg). Ironically, this career-long writer's writer may end up most remembered for one of the few movies he didn't write: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.
Excerpts from an article in the Dartmouth Alumni magazine written by Ty Burr
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