WPIRG Summer Night Picture Show!
May 29 - July 3
Burt Matthews Green (behind SLC)
9:00pm-10:30pm
It's WPIRG's own "bike-in" theatre! On Thursdays from May 29 - July 3, WPIRG will be screening films with a social conscience on the Burt Matthews Green (behind the SLC courtyard).
May 29 - Manufactured Landscapes
Factories so big they never seem to end, one of the largest valleys in the world being prepared for flooding, massive ships being ripped apart in Bangladesh? these are the landscapes of industry hidden behind economic statistics and GDP percentages. Join Jennifer Baichwal as she follows Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's journey to document industrial landscapes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
June 5 - Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
"Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines."
A mad nuclear scientist with nostalgia for Nazi Germany, a team of bomb-happy politicians and generals with a mad hate-on for the commies and an escalating Cold War? what could possibly go wrong? Stanley Kubrick spoofs the madness of Cold War America in this classic black comedy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/
June 12 - The Yes Men
A documentary following a team of pranksters who impersonate World Trade Organization (WTO) execs with hilarious results. After setting up a WTO parody website, "The Yes Men" find themselves invited to stuffy conferences as WTO representatives. Using thrift store suits and a well developed sense of irony, they illustrate the dark side of neo-liberal globalization
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379593/
June 19 - 12 Angry Men
The 1957 classic film starring Henry Fonda. In a seemingly open and shut murder trial, a twelve-man jury is stalemated by the stubborn juror # 8 who challenges the prejudices and assumptions made about the accused. This groundbreaking film illustrates the class and race biases within the legal system.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/
June 26 - Rabbit Proof Fence
Set in 1930s Australia. Three young Aboriginal girls are taken from their families and placed in a residential camp 1500 miles from home under an official government policy. Blinded by religious certainty and colonial intentions, their captors train them in domestic labour in an effort to integrate them into white society. The girls make a daring attempt to do the impossible: escape the camp and follow the rabbit-proof fence that bisects Australia to return home.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252444/
July 3 - Persepolis
A young girl living under the Iranian Shah's repressive regime sees her idealistic father's dream of a new Iran come true. Almost overnight, she sees the country she loves completely transformed; boys and girls now have to enter her school through separate doors, girls and women have to wear long robes, she begins to have risky encounters with teachers and police and Iraqi bombs begin to fall. Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, this film documents her relationship with the fundamentalist regime and her harrowing journey away from Iran.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808417/
...Updated: 2008-05-24