“Dive deep” into the newest independent documentaries this fall as filmmaker/professor Brad Lichtenstein opens up his film 301 class to the public. Nine premieres, guests every month and deep exploration guaranteed. A few highlights include King Korn and Revolution 67. Check the complete schedule at http://www4.uwm.edu/docuwm/ and the blog at http://docuquarium.groups.vox.com/.
This Week’s DocUquarium:
UWM Union Theater
7h30pm *FREE*
King Korn
(Aaron Woolf, USA, 2007)
In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of skeptical neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, the plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat and how we farm.
For more info on King Corn visit http://www.kingcorn.net/
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Basement Cinema
Mitchell Hall - Room B91
Basement Cinema is a student-run series of B and unusual commercial movies.
More information at http://basementcinema.wordpress.com
8pm FREE
Food of the Gods
(Bert I. Gordon, 1976, 88 minutes)
Morgan, an all-star quarterback, takes his hunting buddies to a Canadian island where they get attacked by giant wasps and mutant rats. It seems that the whole island is inhabited with animals who have grown to monster sizes. Now, Morgan and a band of survivors must fend for their lives and try to discover what is causing all this colossal sized chaos.
Basement Cinema favorite - Marjoe Gortner plays Morgan. H.G. Wells wrote the novel that the film is based upon. Kenosah born director Bert I. Gordon, the mastermind behind titles like Earth vs. The Spider and The Amazing Colossal Man, supplies his trademark mix of over-acted seriousness and oversized monsters for a film sure to produce larger than life thrills and laughs.
10pm FREE
The Wild Beasts
(Franco Prosperi, 1984, 92 minutes)
How’s this for a wild idea? PCP is inexplicably introduced to the water supply of a Germany zoo. The animals who drink the water go nutzoid, break free from their cages and run loose on the streets. Next thing you know you have cheetahs racing cars and elephants making pancakes out of people. Shot long before the days of CGI, this is the real deal baby. Also known as The Wild Beasts Will Get You! this unleashed Italian madness from one of the two cinematic geniuses behind Mondo Cane and a ton of other wild films that give little consideration for animal or human safety.
