Brando and Zinn - you say you want a revolution?

Howard Zinn will introduce "Burn!" at the Coolidge on March 9, as part of the theater's 75th anniversary festivities. The movie from the late Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo ("Battle of Algiers") stars Marlon Brando (left) as a British mercenary who instigates a slave rebellion in a Portugese colony to benefit his countrymen, but later must put down the uprising he started. The film dates to 1969, so no doubt there's a Vietnam allegory in there somewhere. Apparently it's Zinn's favorite film - what, you were expecting "Breakfast at Tiffany's?" Tickets are available in advance at http://www.coolidge.org/showtimes or on the day of the show at the box office, 290 Harvard St. in Brookline.