    
Michael Paris
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Username: Publius
Post Number: 35
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, July 20, 2006 - 2:34 pm: | 
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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 (see below)
The first film, Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight (2005), will be shown TONIGHT at The Goat Cafe, located at 21 South Orange Avenue in the center of South Orange. Admission is FREE, although a small donation ($3) would be welcome. Doors open at 7:00. The film begins at 7:30.
Why We Fight won 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."
MORE TO COME:
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. |
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