
GIMME SHELTER
1970. USA. Dir: Albert & David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin. With Documentary. 91 min.Oh, a storm is threatening… Welcome to the Altamont Free Concert, home of The Rolling Stones, Hell's Angel security, and murder. This chilling portrait of the dark yang to Woodstock’s flower-power yin captures Mick and Co. at their explosive peak and brutal counterculture violence at its dream-shattering worst.
WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS
2013. USA. Dir: Alex Gibney. With Documentary. 127 min.A special pre-release presentation: Gibney (MEA MAXIMA CULPA) contemplates the mysterious Julian Assange, his activist-hacker cohorts, and the muddy motives of their quest for informational transparency. Speaker: Marc Shmuger ’80, CEO of Global Produce, the film’s production company.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
1991. USA. Dir: Jonathan Demme. With With Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins. 118 min.A rookie FBI investigator seeks the insight of an imprisoned intellectual/serial cannibal to pursue an equally unsavory character with a penchant for “tailoring.” Taut and macabre thrills abound – you’ll be biting your nails within minutes; by the end you may seriously consider investing in night-vision goggles.
EL TOPO
1970. Mexico. Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky. With With Alejandro and Brontis Jodorowsky. 125 min.A father and child confront four mystical gun-masters in a strange fairytale that’s something like a spaghetti Western – if the spaghetti was replaced by healthy portions of Zen Buddhism, surrealism, everything, and nothing.
