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Friday, December 08, 2006
Guild Hosts Local Premier of Controversial "Death of a President"
From Albuquerque's Guild Cinema:
DECEMBER 8 - 14
(ONE WEEK)
Too hot to play at the multiplex - A Guild Exclusive!
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT (4:30, 6:30, 8:30)
Winner of the International Critics' Prize at the Toronto Film Festival, DEATH OF A PRESIDENT is conceived as a fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on another monstrous and cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The "documentary" combines archival footage and carefully composed interviews as it refashions the event into a riveting story, following the FBI's hunt for the assassin.
Director Gabriel Range previously used the device of a "retrospective documentary" in his celebrated 2003 film, THE DAY BRITAIN STOPPED, about a chain of events that led to a breakdown of the country's transport system and nearly a hundred fatalities. Both of these films have been acclaimed for the technical virtuosity with which they combine archival footage and filmed scenes to create disturbingly real visions of catastrophes. DEATH OF A PRESIDENT was honored by The International Critics Prize Jury (FIPRESCI) at Toronto for "the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth," and the Guild Cinema is excited to have been chosen to present its Albuquerque premiere.
Also coming to the Guild:
DECEMBER 9 & 10 (SATURDAY & SUNDAY)
By Popular Demand for Two Shows Only:
AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM (2:00 PM ONLY)
All Seats $5
Determined to find the law that requires Americans to pay income tax, Aaron Russo (THE ROSE, TRADING PLACES) sets out on a journey. Neither left- nor right-wing, this startling examination exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America. Through interviews with US Congressmen, a former IRS Commissioner, former IRS and FBI agents, tax attorneys and authors, Russo connects the dots between money creation, federal income tax, voter fraud, the national identity card (becoming law in May 2008) and the implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track citizens. A striking case about the evolving police state in America.
December 8, 2006 at 08:42 AM in Film | Permalink
