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Michael Paris
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Username: Publius
Post Number: 29
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 11:10 am: | 
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The South Orange-Maplewood Committee to Stop the War and Military Families Speak Out (Essex County Chapter) are co-sponsoring a Summer Film Series. The films will be shown at The Goat Cafe, located at 21 South Orange Avenue in the center of South Orange, on the third Thursdays of July, August, and September. Admission is FREE. Space is limited. To reserve a seat, email: filmseries.soma@comcast.net
The series features three highly acclaimed films:
JULY 20th: Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight (2005), winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. A.O. Scott of The New York Times called the film "A dense and absorbing critique of American militarism."
AUGUST 17th, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966), the classic film about the violent struggle for Algerian independence from France in the late 1950s. Critics have called the film "one of the finest movies ever made," a "masterpiece," and "astonishingly timely."
SEPTEMBER 20th, Errol Morris's The Fog of War (2003), the academy-award winning documentary about the life and times of Robert S. McNamara. "If there's one movie that ought to be studied…at this treacherous historical moment, it is The Fog of War." (Stephen Holden, New York Times, 10/11/03).
Each film will be followed by open discussion and debate about the war in Iraq and U.S. foreign policy, viewed in relation to the historical perspectives and arguments offered by these films. |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7537
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 11:31 am: |
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Sounds boring...Can we bring booze? |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3563
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 2:04 pm: |
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Sounds over your head.
I'm gonna try to make the first one. |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5610
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 2:39 pm: |
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Interestingly enough, the movie "Battle of Algiers" is on the recommended reading/viewing list of the Army Command and General Staff College, for officers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/biblio/deploylist.asp
I don't know if they think it's boring, or if they bring booze, however. |
3ringale
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Username: Threeringale
Post Number: 296
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:13 pm: |
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Why We Fight is an excellent film. More evenhanded than Michael Moore's film, in my opinion. I've been wanting to see the other 2 films as well.
Cheers |
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