“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*
Miss Navajo
(Billy Luther, USA, 2007)
Director Billy Luther present!
Miss Navajo is a documentary that looks at Navajo culture, tradition and language through the eyes of several women competing in the Miss Navajo contest. It's a perfect storm of humor, serous engagement in issues, and delightful characters.
Miss Navajo will also be screened at Discovery World on Thursday, again with director Billy Luther present (details bellow).
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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: Something to Crow About
Scarecrows, the true children of the corn, frighten off more than blackbirds. This week we pay tribute to a bountiful harvest of horror sprouting up from the heartlands.
8pm FREE
Scarecrows
(William Wesley, 1988, 83 minutes)
A big money heist goes wrong when one of the robbers double crosses his partners. Parachuting with the loot into a spooky cornfield, the pack of thieves soon find themselves fighting not just for the money, but for their lives. Mysterious and truly horrifying scarecrows who surround the land care little for the loot. What they want is blood and this spooky, gory film certainly delivers in those departments.
10pm FREE
Dark Night of the Scarecrow
(Frank DeFelitta, 1981, 81 minutes)
A small town mob tracks down Bubba, a retarded man accused of hurting a little girl. When they find him in a cornfield, disguised as a scarecrow they murder him. Later, Bubba is found innocent. As members of the mob start to die mysterious deaths people begin to wonder if Bubba hascome back from the grave to get his revenge. Or, do the murders have something to do with the mysterious scarecrow still standing in the field? Larry Drake (Darkman) plays Bubba and Charles Durning puts in a psychotic performance as the mob leading mailman.
