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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:30 pm 105 min (Documentary)
“One of a small handful of essential films about politics in this country.”
-The Washington Post
A Perfect Candidate is a humorous, yet frightening documentary of the fight between Charles Robb and right-wing icon/ former Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North in the 1994 run for U.S. Senate in Virginia. It provides a compelling, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the political process.
USA, 1996 - Directors: R.J. Cutler and David Van Taylor
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6:30 pm 85 min (Documentary)
For decades, United States strategists-for-hire have been silently molding the opinions of voters and the messages of candidates in elections all over the world. Our Brand is Crisis is a documentary about the 2002 Bolivian presidential election where one of the candidates, lacking in public support, hires James Carville's political consulting firm. The result of which is an "Americanized" election, full of smear campaigns and the touchstones of the American election system. Our Brand is Crisis is an enlightening, thought provoking look at one group's campaign to re-elect the President of Bolivia and its earth-shattering aftermath.
USA, 2005 - Director: Rachel Boynton |
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 6:30 pm 53 min (Documentary)
Primary is a documentary film about the1960 primary election between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey for the United States Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Robert Drew, and cameraman Richard Leacock persuaded these candidates to allow themselves to be photographed and recorded throughout their entire campaign in Wisconsin. By making use of lighter cameras and sound equipment, they were able to follow the candidates through cheering crowds, crammed in crowded hotel rooms, and a variety of situations that resulted in greater intimacy than was possible with the older,techniques of documentary filmmaking. This groundbreaking documentary, captured just before television would come to dominate political processes, established what has since become the standard style of video reporting.
USA, 1960 - Director: Robert Drew
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:30 pm 96 min (Documentary)
The War Room follows key members of Bill Clinton's campaign team throughout his 1992 run for office. The film follows chief strategist James Carville and media director George Stephanopoulos, and unfolds their relationship, and their role in bringing Bill Clinton to the White House. The War Room offers a fascinating insider's look at this turbulent 1992 Presidential campaign.
"What you realize, watching Carville and Stephanopoulos move between grand strategy and damage control, is that they are good at their jobs, and probably as honest as was possible under the circumstances.Certainly their decision to allow access by documentarians shows a willingness to be seen, warts and all." - Roger Ebert
USA, 1994 - Directors: D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus |
WAR AND POST WAR
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:30 pm 100 min (Drama)
Rome, Open City is a story of the Italian Resistance movement and its struggle against Nazi occupation. Production began in 1945, not long after the Germans were forced to evacuate. Working on an extremely small budget, director Roberto Rosselini could only afford to hire two professional actors and the film was shot using poor quality stock. Instead of detracting from the film, this footage provides an air of authenticity that few war movies can rival. Filmed primarily on the streets, using real locations, natural light, and everyday folk gave the film a documentary quality and set the stage for future neo-realist films to come. It is a compelling mixture of actuality and drama, and has
paved the way for the more immediate, raw aesthetic that has come to define the field of independent cinema.
Italy, 1946 - Director: Roberto Rosselini |
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:30 pm 85 min (Documentary)
White Light/Black Rain: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6th and 9th, 1945, two atomic bombs vaporized 210,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those who survived are called "hibakusha"-- people exposed to the bomb--and there are an estimated 200,000 living today. Today, with the threat of nuclear weapons of mass destruction frighteningly real- the world's arsenal capable of repeating the destruction at Hiroshima 400,000 times over, Oscar ® award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki revisits the bombings and shares the stories of the only people to have survived a nuclear attack. (exerpt from HBO online)
Japan, 2007 - Director: Steven Okazaki |
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 6:30 pm 94 min (Drama)
Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco just after World War II as Nick Garcos (Richard Conte), an American GI, returns from WWII to find that his father, a produce trucker, has lost the use of both legs because of a fight with a crooked truck driver. His attempts to get revenge only bring him deeper in a world of racketeering, full of treachery and heartbreak This was the last film by Jules Dassin before he was blacklisted for alleged sympathy toward the American Communist Party and left the United States for France.
USA, 1949 - Director: Jules Dassin |
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:30 pm 81 min (Drama)
Bad Day at Black Rock is one of the first Hollywood films to deal openly with white racism toward Japanese Americans during World War II. It combines elements of westerns and film noir to produce a powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama about a mysterious stranger named MacReedy who arrives at a tiny isolated desert town in the southwestern United States in search of a Japanese man named Komoko. MacReedy's search brings him face to face with hostility that escalates into serious threats as the mystery unfolds...
USA, 1955 - Director: John Sturges |
PREMIERE SCREENING
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:30 pm
Saturday, November 1, 2008 2:00 pm 85 min (Documentary)
In a triumph of documentary storytelling, Election Day combines eleven stories -- all shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight -- into one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists, and diligent poll watchers, from South Dakota to Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result: an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined on one fateful day to make their votes count. As these stories intertwine, audiences take in a portrait of American elections that is expansive, revealing, and intimate.
USA, 2007 - Director: Katy Chevigny
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FILM FORUM: WAR, WATER, WEALTH, AND HEALTH:
Issues Facing the Next Administration
Film Forum is an interdisciplinary film and discussion series presented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Daytona State College and the Southeast Museum of Photography.
Tuesdays at 6:00 pm in the SMP Madorsky Theater - No Charge
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:00 pm 57 min (Documentary)
A team of scientists and cave divers take a daring journey underground into the Floridan aquifer. Their discoveries lead viewers on a thrilling adventure about the course that water takes, and the places you don't want to believe it goes. (exerpt from floridasprings.org)
USA, 2003 - Director: Wes Skiles |
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:00 pm
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 1:00 pm 113 min (Drama)
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
USA, 1966 - Director: Francois Truffaut |
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008 6:00 pm 145 min (Documentary)
In the mid-1800s, corporations began to be recognized as individuals by U.S. courts, granting them unprecedented rights. The Corporation, a documentary by filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott and author Joel Bakan, delves into that legal standard, essentially asking: if corporations were people, what kind of people would they be? Applying psychiatric principles and FBI forensic techniques, and through a series of case studies, the film determines that this entity, the corporation, which has an increasing power over the day-to-day existence of nearly every living creature on earth, would be a psychopath. - (exerpt from Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide)
USA, 2003 - Director: Mark Achbar |
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:00 pm 60 min (Documentary)
In Sick Around the World, PBS and Frontline teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -- deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.- (exerpt from PBS synopsis)
USA, 2008 - Director: Jon Palfreman |
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:00 pm 98 min (Documentary)
Why We Fight offers a revealing look at how America has readied itself for battle and what compels us to so frequently wage war around the world. Produced in the midst of the second Iraq War, documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight is an unflinching examination of the forces fueling the American military machine for over half a century and their global consequences.
USA, 2006 - Director: Eugene Jarecki |
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