"What better way to spend Election Night than watching classic campaign ads and a political documentary?" asks Mike Everleth, pointing us to a multi-part special program happening tonight in Brooklyn and co-presented by UnionDocs and Cinebeasts. Following "a smattering of classic campaign commercials, ranging from the Eisenhower days to the wealth of populist YouTube-targeted spots from this year's midterms" (so reads the program; see ten of the wackiest from this year's go-round here) and Brian Springer's 1995 documentary Spin (Video Data Bank: "Pirated satellite feeds revealing Us media personalities' contempt for their viewers come full circle"), there'll be a panel discussion featuring David Bushman, curator-in-chief of the Paley Center for Media, "News Dissector" Danny Schechter and playwright and screenwriter Beau Willimon, whose play Farragut North is currently being adapted as The Ides of March, with George Clooney directing Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood...
- 11/2/2010
- MUBI
Nov 2
6:30 p.m.
UnionDocs
322 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: Cinebeasts
What better way to spend Election Night than watching classic campaign ads and a political documentary? That is, what better way after you’ve actually gone out and voted. You’re going to vote, right? You better!
Plus, after tonight’s screenings, David Bushman of the Paley Center for Media and investigative reporter Danny Schechter will lead a panel discussion on the “evolution of political media language.”
As for the screenings, it seems that every year politician TV ads get more and more mean-spirited and deceptive. But, is that really the case?
UnionDocs and Cinebeasts have collected a treasure trove of classic campaign ads that reach all the way back to Eisenhower. Some of the better well-known ads that will screen are ’70s Coke commercials that featured Richard Nixon as a punchline and Ronald Reagan’s famous — or infamous,...
6:30 p.m.
UnionDocs
322 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: Cinebeasts
What better way to spend Election Night than watching classic campaign ads and a political documentary? That is, what better way after you’ve actually gone out and voted. You’re going to vote, right? You better!
Plus, after tonight’s screenings, David Bushman of the Paley Center for Media and investigative reporter Danny Schechter will lead a panel discussion on the “evolution of political media language.”
As for the screenings, it seems that every year politician TV ads get more and more mean-spirited and deceptive. But, is that really the case?
UnionDocs and Cinebeasts have collected a treasure trove of classic campaign ads that reach all the way back to Eisenhower. Some of the better well-known ads that will screen are ’70s Coke commercials that featured Richard Nixon as a punchline and Ronald Reagan’s famous — or infamous,...
- 10/28/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
It's like Oscar night all over again! We have one loser and one winner: which is which?
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
The film snatched two Oscars, one expected (Mo'Nique for best supporting actress), one not (best screenplay adaptation, which was assumed to belong to Up in the Air). Our own Eric D. Snider identified the challenge and held out a hope: "The premise of Precious is so unsettling and bleak that no one would blame you if you didn't want to see it. ... That feeling of hopefulness, not the awfulness that precedes it, is what you'll take with you when the film is over." Rent it.
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Up in the Air
Jason Reitman's character drama walked away empty-handed after earning nominations for George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, and Reitman himself. Clooney plays a frequent-flying 'termination agent,' firing...
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
The film snatched two Oscars, one expected (Mo'Nique for best supporting actress), one not (best screenplay adaptation, which was assumed to belong to Up in the Air). Our own Eric D. Snider identified the challenge and held out a hope: "The premise of Precious is so unsettling and bleak that no one would blame you if you didn't want to see it. ... That feeling of hopefulness, not the awfulness that precedes it, is what you'll take with you when the film is over." Rent it.
Add to Netflix queue | Buy at Amazon
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman's character drama walked away empty-handed after earning nominations for George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, and Reitman himself. Clooney plays a frequent-flying 'termination agent,' firing...
- 3/9/2010
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
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