In the Year of the Pig
Friday, July 6

7:00 PM. $5.00. Fools Foundation - 1025 19th St, Sacramento. Off of K St,
between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Digital
projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free
to bring a pillow or cushion (or even your own folding chair).

Emile de Antonio's stunning Academy Award-nominated anti-war documentary
from 1968 on the US in Vietnam, filmed at the height of our involvement.
Upon initial release, reaction against it was so strong that theaters which
ran it received bomb threats and had screens painted over.

Interspersing footage from Vietnam with interviews of politicians,
academics and military and intelligence personnel, the film traces the
history of Vietnam and how it was manipulated by external forces,
ultimately resulting in the Vietnam War. de Antonio shows mastery at simply
allowing people to talk, and thus hang themselves with their own words - a
tactic which Michael Moore is also very adept at.

Not only is this film important for historical reasons, but maintains much
relevance given our current involvement in Iraq. Listening to some of the
interviews in this doc seem very strangely familiar - as if you have very
recently heard extremely similar statements supporting the reasons for the
US being in Iraq...

Time: Friday, July 6, 2007 - 7:00pm PST
Length: 2:00