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 In
celebration of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression, the ACLU
of Idaho presents:
A Special Screening of Never Apologize
and Q & A with Director Mike
Kaplan
The Flicks
Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 7:00
pm
The ACLU of Idaho is currently
working with The Flicks and Never Apologize Director Mike
Kaplan to offer ACLU
members a $2.00 discount on movie tickets during the run of the
movie, opening on Saturday, April 25th.
Please print this web page and present to the cashier at The Flicks
to receive your discount. This printout is the only
verification of your membership you will need.
For more information
about Never Apologize, a cinematic tribute to
Lindsay Anderson,
go to
www.neverapologize.com.
 The
"Progies": 2007's BEST PROGRESSIVE FILMS
Nominated: NEVER
APOLOGIZE
Official
Selection - Cannes Film Festival
by Ed Rampell, The PROGRESSIVE:
This is to announce the launching of a new
annual movie award by THE PROGRESSIVE Magazine: the Progressive
Picture Prizes or The "Progies."
2007 witnessed the apotheosis of the progressive trend in both
features and documentaries, as 1000 filmic flowers bloomed.
Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, ticket buyers often overlooked
many of these pro-people, anti-establishment films. In order to
highlight this movie movement, and to draw attention – and audiences
– to them, the "Progressive Picture Prizes" is being launched. The "Progies"
shine a light on films in a number of categories, honoring them for
their achievement in crafting consciousness and conscience into
content for a mass communications medium.
THE GILLO: The Progie Award for Best Progressive Foreign Film is
named after the Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, who lensed the
1960s classics "The Battle of Algiers" and "Burn!" Americans films
weren’t the only ones that tackled political topics. The nominees
for Best Progressive Foreign Film include films that premiered
and/or were released in the USA in 2007, and they are:
""Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson": Actor
Malcolm McDowell wrote this tribute to the anarchist British
director who – before McDowell starred in "Clockwork Orange" and
"Caligula" -- discovered him for 1969’s student revolutionary movie
and Cannes Festival winner "If…" This film is derived from
McDowell’s theatrical celebration about Anderson, expanded to
included news and archival footage plus film clips from Anderson’s
other movies, such as 1973’s "O Lucky Man!"; 1969's 'This Sporting
Life" and 1987's "The Whales of August."
NEVER APOLOGIZE is the versatile McDowell's take on the
innovative Anderson and is a unique hybrid of film, theatre and
literature. It opens up a window to the political, cultural and
artistic movements of the time and is both an inspired tour-de-force
and an all-star extravaganza. The many personalities who turn up
include Bette Davis, Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier, Lillian Gish,
Richard Harris, John Gielgud, Rachel Roberts, Steven Spielberg, John
Ford and Princess Diana.
"Great fun. A stunning movie." The Hollywood Reporter/Reuters
"Grips for every one of its 111 minutes." Sight and Sound
"****"
London Evening Standard and Time Out, London
"Spirited. McDowell is compelling." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Funny, poignant and fascinating." Dana Oland, The Idaho Statesman
"Honest and endearing." Rachel Daigle, The Boise Weekly
NEVER APOLOGIZE was produced and directed by Caldwell resident Mike
Kaplan, who will be present for a Q&A for ACLU members. Kaplan met
McDowell while working for Stanley Kubrick on A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and
produced Anderson's last film, THE WHALES OF AUGUST, which was
named one of the 1000 Best Films of the Century by The New York
Times. Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Mike Hodges, Barbet Schroeder and
Alan Rudolph are among the noted filmmakers with whom
he has worked.
Note: The other films nominated for The GILO by THE PROGRESSIVE
were:
"This is England": Shane Meadows’ riveting take on 1980s skinhead
neo-fascism in the UK, as seen through the eyes of a boy which was
named the Best British Film of the Year at the BAFTA Awards; "The
Unknown Woman": Giuseppe Tornatore’s (director of 2000’s "Malena,"
starring Monica Belluci) feminist mystery about a Ukrainian émigré
(Russian actress Xenia Rappaport) and her history of sex
trafficking, which follows the abused woman to Italy; "The Year My
Parents Went on Vacation": When the Brazilian boy Mauro’s (Michel
Joelsas) activist parents are forced to go underground, he moves
into Sao Paulo’s Jewish quarter. Mauro is more concerned with the
World Cup than politics, but even the soccer mad lad is affected by
the military coup in Brazil.
Additional
film information at
www.neverapologize.com.
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