June Films @ the Iron Rail
ALL FILMS TUESDAYS @ 8:00PM
June 3: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, "fifteen going on thirty-five"). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.
June 10: La Voie Lactée (The Milky Way) (1969)
In this satiric French comedy, two men (Paul Frankeur and Laurent Terzieff) on a time tripping spiritual pilgrimage find their faith put to the test by the zealots and apostates they meet along the way, including God, the Devil, an insane priest, the police, prostitutes, and a group of revolutionary anarchists who execute the Pope. Bernard Verley and Edith Scob provide first-rate support as director Luis Buñuel -- with his trademark absurdist touches on full display -- lampoons his favorite targets: organized religion in general and Catholicism in particular.
June 17: Orwell Rolls in his Grave (2003)
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kane Pappas presents a riveting argument for his theory that America is under an Orwellian watch with the rise to prominence of the radical, right-wing Republican party, an ascent aided, unwittingly or not, by the mainstream media. Here, Pappas interviews an impressive roster, including Center for Public Integrity director Charles Lewis, legal analyst Vincent Bugliosi and liberal filmmaker Michael Moore.
June 24: Was Tun, wenn's brennt? (2001)
What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
June 3: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, "fifteen going on thirty-five"). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.
June 10: La Voie Lactée (The Milky Way) (1969)
In this satiric French comedy, two men (Paul Frankeur and Laurent Terzieff) on a time tripping spiritual pilgrimage find their faith put to the test by the zealots and apostates they meet along the way, including God, the Devil, an insane priest, the police, prostitutes, and a group of revolutionary anarchists who execute the Pope. Bernard Verley and Edith Scob provide first-rate support as director Luis Buñuel -- with his trademark absurdist touches on full display -- lampoons his favorite targets: organized religion in general and Catholicism in particular.
June 17: Orwell Rolls in his Grave (2003)
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kane Pappas presents a riveting argument for his theory that America is under an Orwellian watch with the rise to prominence of the radical, right-wing Republican party, an ascent aided, unwittingly or not, by the mainstream media. Here, Pappas interviews an impressive roster, including Center for Public Integrity director Charles Lewis, legal analyst Vincent Bugliosi and liberal filmmaker Michael Moore.
June 24: Was Tun, wenn's brennt? (2001)
What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
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these films are wicked good
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