[bioundgrd] Biology and a Movie at the Coolidge

[Joyce Roberge]

Havoc!  Chaos!  Destruction!  On Monday, November 12 at 7:00 pm, the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s popular Science on Screen series unleashes a tidal wave of terror on the giant screen with a presentation of It Came From Beneath the Sea.  In this classic creature feature from the Golden Age of monster movies, a gigantic, irradiated octopus (with only six tentacles!) rises from the ocean’s greatest depths to attack San Francisco.

Guest speaker Michael LaBarbera, a professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, is a big fan of vintage monster movies. In his published paper “The Biology of B-Movie Monsters,” he explores such issues as the limits of King Kong’s and the 50-Foot Woman’s bone structure, why a real-life Mothra would have breathing problems, and how the Incredible Shrinking Man would need to eat his own weight daily to survive.  Before the film, he discusses the biological implications of really big and really small B-movie creatures, focusing on the massive cephalopod in It Came from Beneath the Sea, one of his all-time favorite B movies.

Tickets are $8 for students and Museum of Science members, $10 general admission, and free for Coolidge Corner Theatre members. For more information and to purchase tickets online, visit www.coolidge.org/science<http://www.coolidge.org/science>. Tickets are also available at the Coolidge Corner Theatre box office, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline. Phone: 617/734-2500.






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