Pax-salon Mailing List: POETRY FOR CONVERSATIONAL SALON, AND FILM AT U FILM SOCIETY

[patty guerrero (pattypax]

Next Tuesday, Sept 20 will be a poetry salon.  Come and share your poem 
or anybody else's poems.  These are always great salons.

Also, the film at U Film Society starting Friday, 9-16 thru Thursday, 
9-22 is a film you won't want to miss.

Thanks, patty

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> > rom: wamm <wamm [at] mtn.org>
> > Date: Fri Sep 16, 2005  3:10:12 PM US/Central
> > To: Recipient List Suppressed: ;
> > Subject: "Winter Soldier" $5.00 for WAMM members!! UFilm docu 
> > parallels Iraq
> >
> > "Winter Soldier"$5.00 for WAMM members. UFilm
> >
> > Starts Friday, September 16 - Thursday, September 22. Nightly at 7:00 
> > p.m. and 9:00 p.m. (Saturday, September 17, 3:15 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 
> > 7:15 p.m., 9:15 p.m. and Sunday, September 18, 5:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 
> > and 9:15 p.m.) Bell Auditorium at the University of Minnesota, 10 
> > Church Street (at the intersection of 17th Avenue and University 
> > Avenue, inside the Bell Museum of Natural History), Minneapolis. 
> > Parking is available next door at Nolte Garage (entrance on Church 
> > Street) or at Church Street Garage (17th Avenue and 4th Street).  
> > "Winter Soldier" is a moving documentary of the testimonials of 
> > Vietnam veterans on the U.S. war atrocities during the Vietnam War. 
> > Sponsored by WAMM Tackling Torture at the Top Committee and Veterans 
> > for Peace, Chapter 27. FFI: 612-331-3134 or 
> > <www.mn.filmarts.org/bell>.
> >
> > Read more:
> > The war in Iraq has made this Vietnam-era film as powerful as when it 
> > was new, and its filmmakers are calling it eerily prescient of 
> > national embarrassments like the torture at Abu Ghraib.
> >  
> >     Seldom has a film seen by so few caused so much consternation for 
> > so many years. The 1971 film "Winter Soldier", in which Vietnam 
> > veterans testify to atrocities committed in the war has a relevance 
> > today that comes from descriptions of abuse that could have been 
> > ripped from contemporary headlines.
> >  
> >     Listen, for instance, to the former Army interrogator as he 
> > describes using "clubs, rifle butts, pistols, knives" in Vietnam to 
> > extract information --- "always monitored by superiors or military 
> > police," he says - and recounts his superiors' overriding directive: 
> > "Don't get caught."
> >  
> >     According to the August 9 New York Times article "Film Echoes the 
> > Present In Atrocities of the Past," the antiwar documentary "Winter 
> > Soldier" has been handled for decades as if it could explode like a 
> > live hand grenade at any moment.  Its distributors say that the war 
> > in Iraq has made the Vietnam-era film as powerful as when it was new, 
> > and its filmmakers are calling it eerily prescient of national 
> > embarrassments like the torture at Abu Ghraib.
> >  
> >     Seldom has a film seen by so few caused so much consternation for 
> > so many years.  When it was made at a three-day gathering of Vietnam 
> > veterans telling of the atrocities they had seen and committed, major 
> > news organizations sent reporters but published and broadcast next to 
> > nothing of what they filed.  Though the film was shown at the Cannes 
> > and Berlin film festivals, at theaters in France and England, and on 
> > German television, US. television networks would not touch it.  The 
> > film never found a distributor, and it disappeared for decades after 
> > playing a week at a single New York theater.
> >  
> >     The filmmakers say they hope that "Winter Soldier" will be seen 
> > the way it was originally intended: "The whole society needs to hear 
> > about that part of us, because that's part of us, too. The whole 
> > society includes those people who are having to kill and be killed, 
> > and maim and be maimed."
> > Co-sponsored by WAMM Tackling Torture at the Top and Veterans for 
> > Peace: Chapter 27
> >
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