[NV Greens] FW: Tonight's Film: "The Big One"

[charleslaws at att.net]

Seems that the production of a movie series by one Green in NY could be replicated by some one in LV or Reno.. No?

I'd like to see these films, but can't get the Rock Hill Cafe.. or even upstate NY..
and think there are some in NV who'd like to get something like this going..??

best wishes to all.
/cL.
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From: "Matt Funiciello" <mattfuniciello at earthlink.net>
Subject: Tonight's Film:  "The Big One"  
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:06:41 +0000

 
GREETINGS, INDEPENDENT FILM ENTHUSIASTS!
 
Here is the calendar for the Adirondack Progressive Film Forum. We meet at Rock Hill Cafe (corners of Elm, Hudson and Exchange Streets - near Glens Falls Hospital). and screen a different, progressive, independent film or documentary each week. Admission is free and no purchase is required. Films start at 8:00 pm unless otherwise indicated. Everyone is welcome and we are always open to suggestions about future films. If you are receiving this email in error, please let us know and we'll take you off our list. Conversely, if you have friends or family who may be interested, please have them send us an email and we'll gladly add them to our list. Please note that starting in 2007, all films begin at 7:30 pm unless otherwise indicated. This starts Jan. 12th for our premiere of "The Ground Truth".  For information, simply reply to this email.
 
 
THIS WEEK'S FILM -
  
Dec 1   THE BIG ONE     (1997)     Michael Moore     91 min.
A film made during Michael Moore's speaking tour for his book, "Downsize This!". He exposes more than a few big businesses making record profits as they close down and flee the states for more fertile ground in Mexico and Asia. He gives out awards to those he feels are the greediest. This film is eminently watchable but the interview at film's end with Phil Knight (the Nike CEO) should not to be missed. 
 
 
COMING SOON - 
 
Dec 8    INCIDENT AT OGLALA     (1992)     Michael Apted     90 min.
On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, was found guilty. This film describes the events surrounding the shootout and suggests that Peltier was unjustly convicted.
 
Dec 15   GO TIGERS!     (2001)     Kenneth A. Carlson     103 min.
Go Tigers! is a rare behind-the-scenes chronicling of a remarkable season for the Massillon Tiger's high school football team, played out in a small town that draws its identity from football.
During the course of the season, THREE YOUNG STARS emerge who are forced to carry the burden of the town and their teammates as they confront their uncertain future. The film was shot on location in Ohio on High Definition video.This film was selected by ESPN as one of the five best sports documentaries of all time.
 
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** HOLIDAY BREAK **     See You All Next Year!   ALL FILMS START AT 7:30 PM IN THE NEW YEAR
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Jan 12     THE GROUND TRUTH     (Premiere - 2006)     Patricia Foulkrod     78 min.
Hailed as "powerful" and "quietly unflinching," Patricia Foulkrod's searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home – with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all - the truth.
 
Jan 19     THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER     (2002)     Eugene Jarecki     80 min.
Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice. The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens' charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal - allegations documented in Hitchens' book of the same title - based on his role in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia. Kissinger's story raises profound questions about American foreign policy and highlights a new era of human rights. Increasing evidence about one man's role in a long history of human rights abuses leads to a critical examination of American diplomacy through the lens of international standards of justice 
 
Jan 26     WHY WE FIGHT     (2004)     Eugene Jarecki     99 min.
He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.
 
Feb 2     MALCOLM X: MAKE IT PLAIN     (1997-2005)     Orlando Bagwell     139 min.
This film chronicles Malcolm X's remarkable journey from his birth on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, to his assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on February 21, 1965. His compelling story is told through the memories of people who had close personal and working relationships with him: prominent figures such as Maya Angelou, Ossie Davis and Alex Haley; Nation of Islam associates, including Wallace D. Muhammad, the son of Elijah Muhammad; and family members, including his wife, Betty Shabazz, and his oldest daughter, Attallah Shabazz. Included is extensive archival footage of Malcolm X, speaking in his own words at meetings and rallies, and in media interviews.
 
Feb 9     THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL     (2005)     Keith A. Beauchamp     70 min.    
In August 1955, Mamie Till-Mobely of Chicago sent her only child, 14-year old Emmett Louis Till, to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that 8-days later, Emmett would be abducted from his Great-Uncle's home, brutally beaten and murdered for one of the oldest Southern Taboos: addressing a white woman in public. The murderers were soon arrested but later acquitted of murder by an all-white, all-male jury. However, Emmett did not die in vain. His horrific, senseless death sparked media attention when his mother insisted on having an open casket funeral. Her decision was controversial but her reason was simple. She defended her decision by stating, "I want the world to see what they did to my son." Till's death sparked the Black Resistance of the South which later became known as the American Civil Rights Movement. Scholars and historians have studied the murder of Emmett Till ever since, and the case has even made its way through African-American folklore. S
panning five decades people continue to be fascinated by the murder of Till. Many books have been written revealing the incongruous facts surrounding the influential case and controversial jury decision. But, the true story has never been revealed.
 
Feb 16     OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND     (2005)     Garrett Scott & Ian Olds     79 min.    
Occupation: Dreamland is an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. A collective study of the soldiers unfolds as they patrol an environment of low-intensity conflict creeping steadily towards catastrophe. Through the squads activities Occupation: Dreamland provides a vital glimpse into the last days of Falluja. The film documents the citys waning stability before a final series of military assaults began in the spring of 2004 that effectively destroyed it. Filmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds were given access to all operations of the Armys 82nd Airborne. They lived with the unit 24/7, giving voice to soldiers held under a strict code of authority as they cope with an ambiguous, often lethal environment. The result is a revealing, sometimes surprising look at Army life, operations and the complexity of American war in the 21st century.
       
Feb 23     EL CHE: INVESTIGATING A LEGEND     (1997)     Maurice Dugowson     96 min.
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna represents one of the most enduring images of a political leader. His legendary character has been an inspiration for millions, yet many condemn him - sometimes bitterly. For all, he is a subject of controversy and passion. This fascinating film uncovers the truth behind the myth of the "most idolized revolutionary of the 20th century". (New York Times). The life and times of Che Guevara will be chronicled in the upcoming major motion picture release "The Motorcycle Diaries".
 
Mar 2     THE NET     (2006)     Lutz Dammbeck     115 min.
Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck’s THE NET explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology – a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution. For those who resist these intrusive systems of technological control, the Unabomber has come to symbolize an ultimate figure of Refusal. For those that embrace it, as did and do the early champions of media art like Marshall McLuhan, Nam June Paik, and Stewart Brand, the promises of worldwide networking and instantaneous communication outweighed the perils. Dammbeck’s conceptual quest links these multiple nodes of cultural and political thought
 like the Internet itself. Circling through themes of utopianism, anarchism, terrorism, CIA, LSD, Tim Leary, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, THE NET exposes a hidden matrix of revolutionary advances, coincidences, and conspiracies.
 
Mar 9    TYING THE KNOT     (2004)     Jim De Seve     83 min.
When a bank robber's bullet ends the life of police officer Lois Marrero, her wife of thirteen years, Mickie, is honored as her surviving spouse but denied all pension benefits. When Sam, an Oklahoma rancher, loses his beloved husband of 22 years, long-estranged cousins of his late spouse try to lay claim to everything Sam has. As Mickie and Sam's lives are put on trial, they are forced to confront the tragic reality that in the eyes of the law their marriages mean nothing. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming the Manhattan marriage bureau in 1971, Tying the Knot digs deeply into the past and present to uncover the meaning of civil marriage in America today.
 
Mar 16     ONE BRIGHT SHINING MOMENT: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern     (2005)     Stephen Vittoria     125 min.
Retraces George McGovern's bold grassroots presidential campaign of 1972 - a campaign that fought to the bitter end for peace and justice, a campaign that positioned ideas and people first, and, a campaign crushed in workmanlike fashion by Richard Nixon. The tragedy of the '72 campaign is this: George McGovern might have been the only candidate to run for President in the 20th century who truly understood what an incredible monument America could be to the human race. The film features interviews with a patchwork of historians, activists, the candidate himself, foot soldiers from his campaign, and others, including Gore Vidal, Gloria Steinem, Warren Beatty, Dick Gregory, Gary Hart, Frank Mankiewicz, Howard Zinn, Jim Bouton, Sen. Jim Abourezk, Rev. Malcolm Boyd, and Ron Kovic. Narrated by Amy Goodman and featuring an original music score and traditional folk ballads, the story incorporates songs from Leon Russell, Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Donovan, and Elvis Costello. The ultimat
e political defeat of the American Century may also be its high watermark. And if so, what does that say about the electoral process, the American government, and more importantly, what does it say about the forces at work on the American people - then and now?
 
Mar 23     KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT     (2001)     David Shapiro & Laurie Gwen Shapiro     94 min.
“I am a cannibal... No matter into what far corner of my mind I push those words, they flash along the surface of my brain like news along the track that runs around the building at Times Square.”--Tobias Schneebaum, Keep the river on your rightIn 1955, Tobias Schneebaum disappeared into the depths of the Peruvian Amazon. He had no guide, no map, and only he vaguest of instructions: Keep the river on your right. A year later Schneebaum emerged from the jungle...naked, covered in body paint, and a modern-day cannibal.Titled after Schneebaum’s 1969 cult classic memoir about his formative experiences living in the Amazon, KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT is the extraordinary stranger-than-fiction story of Schneebaum’s return to the jungle, 45 years after his original visit, to reunite with the very tribesmen he loved and who gave him nightmares for nearly half a century. A deeply affecting and searing portrait, sibling filmmakers Laurie and David Shapiro capture a man in utter conflict, a
 fearless adventurer, and one of the most charming, enigmatic, and perplexing men ever captured on screen. A film beloved by critics across the country, KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT is compelling as it is bizarre. Here art, love, sex, self-discovery, adventure, and redemption come together in one truly remarkable tale.

Mar 30     FIDEL: THE UNTOLD STORY     (2001)     Estela Bravo     91 min.
What do Alice Walker, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nelson Mandela, Mohammed Ali, Ramsey Clark, Ted Turner, and a former CIA agent have in common? They each appear in this documentary reflecting on or interacting with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. This 90-minute film offers a riveting and rare portrayal of one of the most influential and enigmatic personalities of our time, following him to his childhood home, through the Cuban revolution and the Cold War, even into Harlem, New York. Whether you love or hate him, a video to make you seem him, and the people of Cuba, in a deeper, different light.