Here are a couple of noteworthy music items taking place in Charlottesville as we kick off your work week. WTJU 91.1FM presents another Rock and Roll Move Night on Monday starring the band Radiohead and on Tuesday the Paramount Theater presents Steve Earle with Allison Moorer. For more details….
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The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative will be screening the film For Life, Against the War…Again to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War. The movie is a collection of twenty-five short films by contemporary directors as they address the continuing conflict in Iraq. Running time is 90 minutes. Screening starts at 8pm TONIGHT (Thursday, 04/10). $5 at the door. The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative is located at 209 Monticello Road, over the 9th Street Bridge in Belmont. 434.984.5669.
The original For Life, Against the War was a similar film project released in 1967 that focused its lens on the Vietnam War. Here’s hoping there won’t be a third installment.
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If you’re a fan of the indie-hardcore band Fugazi and you still haven’t made any plans on how to spend your Monday night, then you might want to listen up. WTJU Rock and Roll Move Night is presenting Instrument: Ten Years with Fugazi, a documentary film directed by Jem Cohen, tonight in Room 011 in UVA’s Olsson Hall. The film begins at 8pm and it’s FREE.
Here’s one reviewer’s take on the film:
Instrument is striking for multiple reasons. One–it is simply beautiful to look at and undergo. Two–it is tremendously, unrelentingly, human. No bright-light celebrity rockstars need apply. Three–the fans play a large role in this film-about-a-band.
Jen Stauffer of the web-zine h2so4
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Virginia Film Festival announces that its 2008 theme will be “Aliens!” Human fascination with extraterrestrial life has always amazed me. Human treatment of “aliens”; whether they be another one of earth’s races or from the planet Xenog involves a fear of the unknown, making assumptions and creating our own conclusions about something different from ourselves.
Hopefully the festival will call upon Roy Wagner, who teachers “Fantasy and Social Values” at UVA to discuss some of the cultural reasons behind people’s fear of the unknown.
There will be a lot to play with in the Virginia Film Society’s 2008 theme. The Society’s artistic director, Richard Herskowitz, explains:
The prominence of the immigration issue in this year’s election inspired us to tackle this theme. There is a rich history of films about the alien-ness of immigrants and outsiders, including science-fiction films like ‘The Brother from Another Planet’ and dramas like ‘El Norte.’ And there are many great filmmakers, from Luis Bunuel to Ang Lee and Mira Nair, whose frequent border crossings and perpetual alien-ness, it can be argued, have sustained the vitality of their work.”
We are very excited over at MUSE about this upcoming events. What alien movies have meant something to you? What would you like to see at the festival?
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