With his characteristic humor and dogged commitment to uncovering the facts, Moore considers the presidency of George W. Bush and where it has led us. He looks at how - and why - Bush and his inner circle avoided pursuing the Saudi connection to 9/11, despite the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis and Saudi money had funded Al Qaeda. Fahrenheit 9/11 shows us a nation kept in constant fear by FBI alerts and lulled into accepting a piece of legislation, the USA Patriot Act, that infringes on basic civil rights. It is in this atmosphere of confusion, suspicion and dread that the Bush Administration makes its headlong rush towards war in Iraq Рand Fahrenheit 9/11 takes us inside that war to tell the stories we haven't heard, illustrating the awful human cost to U.S. soldiers and their families. " ( http://www.fahrenheit911.com/about/)
*** Nationwide USA release, June 25th - UK premiere, Sunday 4th July ;-p ***
*** @ rampART Creative Centre and Social Space ***
Also screening; short films about the U$A, democracy, dissent and Bu$h
- including:
'a brief history of america' (and other excerpts from Bowling For Columine)
'independence from america'
'bush and blair sing endless love'
'the end of suburbia' (possibly just excerpts, maybe the whole thing)
and loads more...
*** Films start at 8pm. Main feature 9pm. ***
The address is 15-17 Rampart Street, which is off Commercial Road and Canon Street
(nearest tube Shadwell - bus routes 15, 100, 115)
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Our 'regualar' wednesday screening on the 7th of July will include...
Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis'
On Sept 11, 2002, New Yorkers contemplated a skyline robbed of its most potent symbols, the symbols of the towering dominance of world capitalism. During the previous months American movie goers had enjoyed an unprecedented opportunity (for the first time in 75 years) to see Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis, digitally restorated to something like it's original glory. The movie was directly inspired by the skyline of Manhattan, which the Austrian Lang beheld in 1924 from a ship in New York harbor. He envisioned a scenario in which the cityscape would be dominated by soaring towers of glass and steel while far below, in cellars and catacombs, the workers whose labor sustained it were physically and spiritually crushed — almost literally turned into machines.
Anyway other suggestions welcome.
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