Wednesday, September 3, 2008
UTD’s Centraltrak artists residence hosts dystopian film screenings
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The folks at the University of Texas at Dallas' Centraltrak arts facility, located just a stone's throw from Fair Park at 800 Exposition Ave., are hosting a pair of grim futurist cinematic visions in the next couple of weeks.
Snake Plissken. (Great name.) Note the eye patch.
Soylent Green ('73), based on the Harry Harrison novel and starring the late great Charlton Heston, will screen on Thurs., Sept. 4; while - on Thurs., Sept. 11 - we have an opportunity to reconnect with the wild actioner side of John Carpenter via his Escape from New York ('81), starring Kurt Russell as anti-hero Snake Plissken (surely one of the best and most evocative character names of modern cinematic history. I mean, come on: PLISSSSS-ken!).
Admission to both films is free, and both shows start at 7 p.m.
The thought behind screening these two films (in relation to the artistic mission of Centraltrak) involves a rumination surrounding the accuracy of the vision expressed in the films. Are they still relevant to modern audiences? Is there a reflection of the events depicted in the films observable in today's world?
Watch and decide. And call 214-824-9302 for further information.
posted by JM
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Kevin Kunreuther Verified
One fellow in Ohio has seen the light and knows a future trend when he's battered over the head with it and has been operating The Soylent Green Biscuit Co. online.
One of the better and more notorious phony sponsorship messages from NPR during a April Fool's Day broadcast.
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Kevin Kunreuther Verified
Another link to NPR's 01 APR 2007 broadcast featuring it's unusual funding sponsor.
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