From: "Gragert, Jeremy Evan" <GRAGERJE@uwec.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:54:11 -0500 Subject: Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival begins Friday at UWEC Message-ID: <DC9F505A4ACB32489179913AE656565940DC250F1C@CHERRYCOKE.uwec.edu>
3rd Annual
Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival
April 18-27, 2008
A project of the Progressive Media Network
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Hibbard Humanities Hall Room 100
Film Screenings:
Friday April 18, 8 pm:
No End in Sight
Iraq’s descent into chaos: the inside story from the ultimate insiders. N
R/102 minutes/2007.
Saturday April 19, 5 pm:
Hacking Democracy
A nonpartisan, clear-eyed look at the secrecy, cronyism, and incompetence o
f elections in present-day America. NR/81 minutes/2006.
Saturday April 19, 8 pm:
La Haine [Hate]
A gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at racial and cultural vo
latility in modern-day France, specifically in the low-income banlieue dist
ricts on Paris’ outskirts. NR/97 minutes/1995.
Sunday April 20, 5 pm:
Fires on the Plain
An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange
land during World War II in one of the most harrowing anti-war films ever m
ade. NR/104 minutes/1959.
Sunday April 20, 8 pm:
Inland Empire
David Lynch’s most thoroughly bizarre, complexly challenging, and fully a
vant-garde feature-length film, picking up where Mulholland Drive left off
and pushing far past. R/179 minutes/2006.
Monday April 21, 8 pm:
Black Gold
This mesmerizing documentary tells the dark back-story of coffee, from the
raw bean to your to-go cup. NR/78 minutes/2006.
Tuesday April 22, 8 pm:
Half Moon
Mamo, an iconic Kurdish musician in the twilight of his life and failing he
alth, must lead a dozen of his sons to Iraq for a concert–"a cry of freed
om"–to celebrate the fall of Saddam Hussein and the end of the repression
of Kurdish music. NR/107 minutes/2006.
Wednesday April 23, 8 pm:
Killer of Sheep
Charles Burnett’s masterpiece of African American filmmaking, set in the
Los Angeles community of Watts, focusing on Stan, a sensitive dreamer who i
s growing detached and numb from the toll of working in a slaughterhouse. N
R/81 minutes/1977.
Thursday April 24, 8 pm:
The Price of Sugar
Exposes the tragic, near slave-like conditions of Haitian plantation worker
s in the Dominican sugar industry. NR/90 minutes/2007.
Friday April 25, 8 pm:
King Corn
A feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidiz
ed crop that drives our fast-food nation. NR//88 minutes/2007.
Saturday April 26, 5 pm:
Titicut Follies
From direct cinema/cinema verité master Frederick Wiseman, a stark and gr
aphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the
Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts that documents the various
ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatris
ts. NR/84 minutes/1967.
Saturday April 26, 8 pm:
Belfast, Maine
From direct cinema/cinema verité master Frederick Wiseman, a film about o
rdinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city that focuses on
daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the cultural life of t
he community. NR, 1999, 248 minutes.
Sunday April 27, 5 pm:
La Commune, Paris, 1871,
Part One [The Paris Commune]
Explores that famous, brief, romantic, and tragic period when poor and work
ing-class Parisiens rose up against and seized power from the bourgeois Fre
nch national government, which fled the capital and re-established itself i
n Versailles. NR/2001/A Total of 345 minutes; A Break Will Take Place Betwe
en Parts One and Two.
Sunday April 27, 8 pm:
La Commune. Paris, 1871,
Part Two [The Paris Commune]
See above description.
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