United Kingdom
BATTLE FOR HADITHA
2007, Nick Broomfield, U.K., 93 min.
With Elliot Ruiz, Falah Flayeh
Some have called this film the Iraqi conflict’s APOCALYPSE NOW, others its BATTLE OF ALGIERS. The event in question is the 2005 massacre of 24 civilians by U.S. marines, sometimes referred to as the “Iraqi My Lai.” Casting American combat veterans and Iraqi refugees and employing a startlingly authentic verité style, Broomfield (BIGGIE AND TUPAC) depicts each side--soldiers, insurgents, victims--in three-dimensional complexity, without sentimentality or vilification. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. Preview courtesy of HanWay Films. 35mm. (MR)
Saturday, March 8, 7:00 pm
Monday, March 10, 6:00 pm
IT’S A FREE WORLD...
2007, Ken Loach, U.K., 96 min.
With Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis
“Wareing is dynamite in her first film role. Appearing in nearly every scene, she burns up the screen.”--Alissa Simon, Variety
Tough, politically insightful, and rich in characterization: sounds like another Ken Loach classic. FREE WORLD examines the growing phenomenon of “flexible labor” (i.e., underpaid, non-unionized immigrants) but tells the story from the point of view of the exploiter rather than the exploited. Kierston Wareing is sensational in her screen debut as a peroxided, chopper-riding labor wrangler who gets ahead by doing unto others. In English. 35mm print courtesy of IFC Festival Direct. (MR)
Saturday, March 15, 7:00 pm
Thursday, March 20, 6:00 pm
LONDON TO BRIGHTON
2006, Paul Andrew Williams, UK, 85 min.
With Lorraine Stanley, Johnny Harris
This tour-de-force thriller opens with two girls in full flight and never lets up. The fugitives in question are a veteran prostitute and a 12-year-old newcomer; as they take cover in the seedy side of Brighton, we learn why a ruthless pimp with a shotgun is after them. Williams, in his first feature, deftly combines mixes Loach/Leigh social realism with Brit gangster flash à la SEXY BEAST and the elemental suspense of a D.W. Griffith cliffhanger. In English. Preview courtesy of Outsider Pictures. 35mm widescreen. (MR)
Saturday, March 29, 7:00 pm
Tuesday, April 1, 6:00 pm
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