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News & ArtsTuesday, May 31, 2011
SIFF SIFF Picks: Tuesday, May 31!
Posted by Lindy West on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Good morning, dumplings!
Christopher Frizzelle DEMANDS THAT YOU SEE LESSON PLAN:
One day in an American high school in 1967, in the middle of learning about Hitler, students walked into a rearranged classroom. After explaining they were doing a role-playing experiment and that they would be graded as a group, their teacher Mr. Jones started writing cryptic messages on the chalkboard, had them do physical tasks in unison, told them not to share what happened in the classroom with anyone outside, encouraged students to rat out their friends for invented infractions, and over the course of a week built a cult of personality that scared the shit out of people. The experiment has fascinated and perplexed the teaching community ever since. Many of the students, now grown, are interviewed in this documentary, as is Mr. Jones, who never taught again.
And Charles Mudede enjoyed Empire of Mid-South:
The editing is the best thing about this documentary, which is primarily concerned with the 20th-century history of Vietnam. Footage from the moment of French colonial life, occupation, and the industrial transformation of the country’s natural resources, the moment of the Japanese war machine, and the moment of the American war machine are smoothly (even beautifully) blended, distorted, faded in, and faded out. Empire of Mid-South is the documentary in the condition of a remix.
Everything else playing today is listed HERE.
Happy SIFFing!
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Late Autumn is showing at 4 pm at the Egyptian - filmed in Seattle but a South Korean movie.
9:15 pm has Finistarrae at the Harvard Exit and 9:30 pm has the trippy but slight downer Bibliotheque Pascal at the Egyptian - the latter is where everyone wants to be.
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