<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/westmont-news/reel-talk-features-mission-hoeckley.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>03/03/2011</pubDate><title>Reel Talk Features ‘The Mission,’ Hoeckley</title><excerpt>Reel Talk, which gives the Westmont community an opportunity to discuss difficult social, philosophical, or theological questions following a film screening, features “The Mission,” starring Jeremy Irons and Robert DeNiro, on Friday, March 25, at 7 p.m. in Adams 216 (map). The event, hosted by Chris Hoeckley, is free and open to the public. Hoeckley, director of the Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts, earned a doctorate in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School. Hoeckley presents a Phi Kappa Phi lecture, “Peace that Passes Understanding: Four Paths to Opposing War” on Tuesday, March 22, at 7 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge. “The Mission,” written by Robert Bolt and directed by Roland Joffé, is about an 18th century Spanish Jesuit priest (Irons) and a converted mercenary and slaver (DeNiro) who work to protect a South American native tribe from pro-slave Portuguese rule. The 1986 film also stars Liam Neeson and Aidan Quinn.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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