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| Screening date: | October, 2006 |
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| What scientists are saying about An Inconvenient Truth:
"The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action." – Science Academics’ Statement from 11 countries (the G8, China, India, and Brazil): Global Response to Climate Change, 2005 "Delaying action for decades, or even years, is not a serious option." – Sir David King, Chief Science Advisor to the British government – Science Magazine, Jan. 2004 "AP (Associated Press) contacted more than 100 top climate researchers for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited release, or read the book. But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter, and it is caused by the burning of fossil fuels." – Seth Borenstein, Associated Press June 30, 2006 To see a trailer and lots more cool information, go to the film’s website: www.climatechange.net | |
An Inconvenient Truth
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By emily Feature | |
| Screening date: | October, 2006 |
| Director: | Orson Welles |
| For many years, Orson Welles's IT'S ALL TRUE, was one of Hollywood's legendary lost films. The film was a documentary project Welles began shooting in Brazil in 1942 for the U.S. Government and RKO. It was intended as a
tribute to the people of Latin America, a soft-sell propaganda film to promote hemispheric solidarity and counter the threat of fascism. But what Welles found and filmed in Brazil was not what his sponsors had in mind. He shot a radical film dealing sympathetically with the musical culture, the
political aspirations, and the economic plight of poor Brazilians, many of whom were black and lived in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
Under pressure from the Brazilian government and alarmed by the racial themes of the film, RKO terminated the production and fired Welles. Despite all of Welles' efforts to finish the film back in Hollywood over a period of several years, it was taken away from him and partially destroyed. After 309 cans of footage of IT'S ALL TRUE were discovered in the 1980s, Richard Wilson (Welles's righthand man in Brazil), Myron Meisel, and Bill Krohn spent years constructing their magnficent documentary feature: IT'S ALL TRUE: BASED ON AN UNFINISHED FILM BY ORSON WELLES. Experience the genius of Orson Welles through his work and through the eyes of the artists with whom he worked. | |
The General
By emily Feature | |
| Screening date: | September, 2006 |
| Director: | Clyde Bruckman |
| A classic comedy made in
1927 and considered one of the all-time funniest films ever made. The hero Johnnie loves his train ("The General") and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins, he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board. Johnny must rescue both his loves. Matt, age 16 :THE GENERAL has started, the girl is kidnapped by some Union raiders on Keaton's train, and so begins the greatest (and funniest) chase ever filmed. For the next 75 minutes, the viewer is in Keaton's world. His gags, routines, and amazing slapstick serve to make this the greatest screen comedy ever filmed.Stars BUSTER KEATON and MARION MACK | |