“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 Banished, King Korn, Miss Navajo, 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*
Iraq in Fragments
(James Longley, US, 110 min., 35mm, 2006)
Docuquarium leaves last week's reality TV far behind and takes you to the heart of the war with Iraq in Fragments this week. You won't see a more stunning portrait of what life is like for people living in Iraq. This film has won a zillion awards, including Best Documentary, Best Documentary Editing and Best Documentary Cinematography at Sundance.
"This one demands to be seen...mesmerizes with its insight and, rarer still, its beauty."
-- Kenneth Turan, LA Times
"In beautifully shot, almost poetic images, it takes us inside this fractured country, letting us feel what its like from the inside from three points of view--Sunni, Shiite and Kurd. ... A fascinating glimpse of an Iraq the mass media never shows us, the movie is a quiet revelation."
-- David Ansen, Newsweek
"Iraq in Fragments is the latest entry in the crowded field of documentaries from that war. It is also one of the best, partly because it is more concerned with exploring daily life and individual destinies than with articulating a position. ... Whether you think the war is right or wrong, Iraq in Fragments is a necessary reminder of just how painful and complicated it is."
-- A.O. Scott, The New York Times
If you make just one of Docuquarium's movies this month, make it Iraq in Fragments.
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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
This week: Locked-Up with Linda Blair! After spitting up pea soup in The Exorcist Linda Blair went on to star in these two notorious women-in-prison films.
8pm FREE
Born Innocent (Donald Wrye, 1974, 98 min)
One of the most controversial films to ever air on television, this NBC world premiere movie, found Linda Blair running away from her abusive father and landing in a juvenile detention center. The abuse she endures behind bars is just as bad, perhaps worse. This grim teenage morality play was made infamous by a rape scene that would later be exorcised from later broadcasts. For thirty years the original cut of the film never saw the light of day. Now’s your chance to see just how ugly television could be, especially when it ironically tries to attack the so-called downfalls of society.
10pm FREE
Chained Heat (Paul Nicholas, 1983, 95 min)
“2000 women, stripped of all they had, except the will to survive,” screams the tag line to one of the more legendary women-in-prison films. Carrying on a long tradition of the genre an innocent young woman (Linda Blair) is sent off to sadistic hellhole. In this particular prison the women are separated by their race. Pitted against each other, it’s white vs. black, unless the prisoners can join together and fight for their freedom. The films features an amazing cast of B-film and exploitation veterans including: Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson, John Vernon, Stella Stevens, and Henry Silva.
