Flow, The Greening of Southie, Battle in Seattle

After posting about the showing of Food Fight as part of the Earth Week Film Festival, I looked at the trailers for the other films that will be shown. They all look excellent. Shoot. I guess I'll have to go to all of them! ;-)

The Greening of Southie

The other films don't directly involve food, but I did notice something food-related about The Greening of Southie. It's made by Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, the guys who did King Corn! Now I definitely have to watch that one!

Here's the trailer:

Sunday, April 26, 5:00pm
Hoogland Center Theater, 3rd Floor

Flow

I suppose you could say that Flow is directly relevant to being a locavore. It's about where our fresh water comes from - and who controls it. That's probably not something you've thought about before, is it? I know I never really thought about it.

Actually, that's one of the lines I remember from the opening of the movie Tank Girl. She mentions an organization called "Water & Power", saying that "They control most of the water and got all the power."

Come to think of it, control of water was also the background of the movie World Gone Wild. (Bruce Dern and Adam Ant make that a fun movie, if you understand going in that this is not Fine Cinema.)

I have to say, based upon the trailer, Flow looks like one frightening film, far scarier than Tank Girl or World Gone Wild at least. Anyway, here's the trailer:

Monday, April 20, 6:00pm
Lincoln Library

Battle in Seattle

Unlike the other movies, Battle in Seattle is a drama, although based on real events. I'm less interested in it for that reason. I know very little about what happened in Seattle during the protests against the World Trade Organization in 1999. On the one hand, I'd learn a bit about those events from watching this movie. On the other hand, because I know so little, it would be difficult to judge what is true and what is artistic license (aka "not true").

Here's the trailer:

Sunday, April 26, 7:00pm
Hoogland Center Theater, 3rd Floor

Comments

[Will]

Thanks for posting the movies and trailers! All four movies are new, exciting and well reviewed. I don't think any of them have been shown in Springfield before so I'm glad we were able to get them here.