Date: April 10th, 2008

This weekend brings you the second half of the Dry River Dystopia Film Frenzy - a veritable cornucopia of films that depict worlds even more screwed-up than our own - lessons to learn from in our fight for an alternative to this unjust and violent system we live in.

All films are by donation ($3 suggested) and may be followed by topical and spirited discussion. Accompanied by tea and popcorn!!


Friday April 11
7pm: Zardoz (1974)
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Starring Sean Connery as Zed, who wears nothing but a red diaper and red suspenders throughout the film!
Warning: graphic violence.

9pm: Brazil (1985)
In this classic Terry Gilliam film, a bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

Saturday April 12:
3:30 - Soylent Green (1973)
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. stars recently dead NRA prez Charelton Heston - come help us celebrate...

Sunday April 13:
3:30 - Minority Report (2002)
In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence.
The second in our series based on Phillip K. Dick stories, and the second in our series with overblown actors with crappy politics starring as cops (Charleton Heston in Soylent Green and Tom Cruise here)