 |
Mickey Z
Cool Observer
the Department of Homeland Security.
Monday, July 12, 2004
For Your Anti-War Viewing Pleasure
With the wife enjoying a much-deserved weekend away with friends, I decided to take a leisurely Saturday evening stroll to one of my local theaters and catch a flick with bite. The multiplex was showing 13 films...one of which
was “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Just a few blocks away, the American Museum of the
Moving Image (AMMI) offered a revival of Gillo Pontecorvo’s “The Battle of
Algiers.”
I think you might guess where this is going…
So, there I was...seated in the dark AMMI theater with a room full of movie
buffs and more than a few subversives who—judging from their mocking
laughter—recognized the congruence all too clearly. After all, it’s not
every day one gets to see a movie that was used as a training film for the
Black Panthers in the 60s and was screened by the Pentagon in 2003.
To read the full article, click here:
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/mickeyz07122004/
Who's Online
Copyright © 2005-2007 Mickey Z.
