ShangOrama.com presents
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First-Anniversay Randamonium!!!
ShangOrama.com is exactly one-year old (again) on this night of nights for us!!! Y'arrr!!!
Dinner and a movie ... bring an appetite, vegan Shanger pasta is served ... Y'arrr!!!
Randamoniun is a series of nights programmed in conjunction with one of our audience members. Tonight it's: Josephine Grey!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 @7pm - 1am (doors open at 6pm)
7:00pm - A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash ( 2006. 82'. HD [1.78], colour, 5.1 stereo, Switzerland ) - a Q&A will follow this provocative & award-winning film!!!
Writer/Directer/Producer: Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack; co-Director: Reto Caduff; Original Music: Daniel Schnyder; Director of Photography: Frank Messmer; Director of Photography (USA): Daniel Pfisterer; Additional Photography: Jim Bowden, Richard Grell, Tim Kos, David Merkofer; Film Editor: Georgia Wyss; Assistant Editor: Florian Nussbaumer; Sound Recordists: Robert Porter, David Merkofer; Sound Design: Daniel & Stefan Fasch; Sound Mix: Stefan Fasch; Special Thanks to: NZZ Television, Zurich.
Participants: Wade Adams; Abul Samad Al-Awadi; Roscoe Bartlett; James Blackwell; Robert Bottome; Colin Campbell; Fadhil Chalabi; Don Clarke; Marcello Colitti; Alberto Quiros Corradi; Robert E. Ebel; Mir-Babayev Mir-Yusif Fazilogly; Daniele Ganser; Luis E. Guisti; David L. Goodstein; Terry Lynn Kari; Araman Medezuleyev; Jack Meyer; Franklin M. Orr, Jr; Sherry Phillips; Matthew David Savinar; Matt Simmons; Alfred M. Spormann; Manouchehr Takin; Rodney Wilson; Louis Woodward; Gary Yannibelli.
Official websites: www.oilcrashmovie.com --&-- www.lavatv.com - (Please order this great DVD here).
Tagline: What happens when the oil runs out?
"This documentary examines the state of the world's dwindling oil resources and finds that we're running out of fossil fuels much sooner than anticipated. Industry leaders and scientists such as Matt Simmons, Colin Campbell, Fadhil Chalabhi, David Goodstein and many others lend insights into the dire consequences the world is facing as it moves from cheap abundant energy supply to scarce, inaccessible and expensive energy." - LavaTV
"Oil Crash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. The idea that the world’s oil supplies have peaked, or will soon, is gaining mainstream currency.
Robert B.
Semple, Jr., associate editor of the New York Times editorial board, writes
in the paper’s March 1, 2006, online edition:
“The Age of Oil — 100-plus years of astonishing economic growth
made possible by cheap, abundant oil — could be ending without our really
being aware of it. Oil is a finite commodity. At some point even the vast
reservoirs of Saudi Arabia will run dry. But before that happens there will
come a day when oil production ‘peaks,’ when demand overtakes
supply (and never looks back), resulting in large and possibly catastrophic
price increases that could make today's $60-a-barrel oil look like chump change.
Unless, of course, we begin to develop substitutes for oil. Or begin to live
more abstemiously. Or both. The concept of peak oil has not been widely written
about. But people are talking about it now. It deserves a careful look —
largely because it is almost certainly correct.” Semple concludes: “These
[are] not doomsday scenarios from conspiracy theorists, but hard scientific
facts backed by serious research.”" - www.oilcrashmovie.com
9:00pm - Death of a President ( 2006, 97', 35mm [1.85], colour, 5.1 stereo, UK ) - Winner 2006 T.I.F.F.'s International Critics' Award.
Writer/Directer/Producer: Gabriel Range; co-Writer: Simon Finch; Executive Producers: Robin Gutch, Liza Marshall; co-Producers: Simon Finch, Ed Guiney; Line Producers: Donall McCusker (UK), Christina Varotsis; Original Music: Richard Harvey; Cinematography: Graham Smith; Film Editor: Brand Thumim; Casting: Claire Simon, Cindy Tolan; Production Design: Gary Baugh; Set Decoration: Lisa Wolff; Set Costumer: Rachael Ohman.; 1st Assistant Director: Michael Shea; Script Editor: Angeli MacFarlane.
CAST: Hend Ayoub (Zahra Abi Zikri); Becky Ann Baker (Eleanor Drake); Brian Boland (Larry Stafford); Michael Reilly Burke (Robert H. Maguire); Patricia Buckley (Dawn Newton); Seena Jon (Samir Masri); Robert Mangiardi (Greg Turner); Neko Parham (Casey Claybon); Jay Patterson (Sam McCarthy); Chavez Ravine (Marianne Claybon); Christian Stolte (John Rucinski); James Urbaniak (Dr. James Pearn); Jay Whittaker (Frank Molini); Patrick Clear (Adam Brock); Malik Bader (Jamal Abu Zikri); Tony Dale (Al Claybon); As themselves: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Jong-il Kim, Richard M. Daley, Walter Jacobson.
Tagline: Do not rush to judge.
Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago on October 19th 2007 (6-days from now), an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime. Genius filmmaking at it's best. It controversially star's George W. Bush himself. WOW, eh!!! Death of a President had been labeled "controversial" long before this film hit U.S. shores. That Bush was assassinated in this film isn't really the issue. The real issue in this film is the sequence of events that the assassination set in motion. It's about how the current state of national fear and paranoia could produce the results that the film depicts in the AFTERMATH of the fictional assassination. It's about how contradictory evidence is suppressed or ignored, stereotypes are reinforced, rights are willingly surrendered by a frightened public, and hatred is stoked. It's about how a mere tidbit of dubious information (the questionable smudged fingerprint) can be hyped by politicians with an agenda into international confrontation. The film was an excellent and insightful commentary on the current state of political affairs in the United States. British director and co-writer, Gabriel Range first introduced his film on U.K. television, and later at the Toronto International Film Festival where it won the International Critic's prize. This film has been given limited release in U.S. For shame folks!!!
1 1:00pm - Children of Men ( 2006, 110', 35mm [1.85], colour, 5.1 stereo, Japan/UK/USA ) - One of dee best studio films released this decade!!!
Writer/Directer/Editor: Alfonso Cuarón; co-Writers: Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby, Tony Smith; Based on the novel "The Children of Men" by P.D. James; Executive Producers: Armyan Bernstein, Thomas A. Bliss; Producers: Marc Abraham, Eric Newman, Hilary Shor, Iain Smith; Producer, 'Baby Diego' footage: Pablo Casacuberta;associate producer: Kristel Laiblin; Original Music: John Tavener; Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki; co-Editor: Alex Rodríguez; Casting: Lucinda Syson; Production Design: Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland; Art Direction: Ray Chan, Paul Inglis, Mike Stallion, Stuart Rose (uncredited); Set Decoration: Jennifer Williams; Costume Design: Jany Temime; Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor: Richard Beggs.
CAST: Clive Owen (Theo Faron, Ministry of Energy bureaucrat); Julianne Moore (Julian, Faron's ex-wife); Michael Caine (Jasper, Faron's dad); Chiwetel Ejiofor (Luke); Ed Westwick (Alex); Claire-Hope Ashitey (Kee); Pam Ferris (Miriam); Danny Huston (Nigel); Peter Mullan (Syd); Oana Pellea (Marichka); Paul Sharma (Ian); Charlie Hunnam (Patric); Jacek Koman (Tomasz); Joy Richardson (Joy); Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi (Baby Diego); with, P.D. James (Old Woman in Cafeteria - uncredited).
Tagline: No children. No future. No hope.
London, November 16, 2027: Baby Diego has just died. He was dee last person born on earth. He was 18 years old!!! What an opening to the best studio film to come along this decade. Y'arrr!!! Set in 2027, when no child has been born for 18 years and science is at loss to explain the reason, African and East European societies collapse and their dwindling populations migrate to England and other wealthy nations. In a climate of nationalistic violence, a London peace activist turned bureaucrat Theo Faron, joins forces with his revolutionary ex-wife Julian in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysterious secret. I love this monumental flic. If there ever was an heir-apparent to Sir Stanley Kubrick it's certainly Alfonso Cuarón. His long single-take shots are almost always moving and sweeping. One shot moves through what seems 10-12 block area and up and down an apartment building. We are drawn into dee story so well that we are there, living it like his character. This story does remind me soooooo much of Kafka's The Trail, where the Castle here is replaced by the Ministry of Energy, where dee films lead Theo Faron works. Y'arrr!!! Don't miss it folks!!!
(NB: I chose Children of Men as a natural follow-up flic to Josephine's two selected films above. Children of Men certainly gives a great glimpse of dee very near future of oil, and what will happen if we continue along this slippery-slope that we are on. I do know that most of you that have already seen this flic will have missed this important backdrop. See it again in light of this evenings programming. Y'arrr!!!)
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The Anarchy & Alchemy of Alejandro Jodorowsky!!!
ShangOrama.com's 2nd annual Halloween-night tradition continues. Y'arrr!!!
Alexandro Jodorowsky is a director of fascinating films (El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre...), founder of the "Panique" movement (his mime projects with Marcel Marceau), performer of provocative happenings, successful comic strip writer (the Incal, Aleph Tau, The White Lama...), animator of the "Mystical Cabaret", Tarot card master, launcher of the "psycho-magic", the list could go on and on. It is unfortunate that not everyone has heard of him and his art or has had the experience of viewing his extondianary films.
"And I imagine...with great pleasure...all the horrible stirrings of the non-manifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsions and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live." - Alexandro Jodorowsky, 1971
@MAJLIS on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 8pm - 2am (doors open at 7pm) - $5 cover
Browse our EVENTS archives:
#11 - "3 Banned Hell-O-Ween Films: The Anarchy & Alchemy of Alejandro Jodorowsky" (Wed, Oct 31, 2007)
#10 - "First-Anniversary Randamonium" (Sat, Oct 13 & Wed, Oct 24, 2007) - Come celebrate our first anniversary!!! Y'arrr!!! (& Held-over by popular demand!)
#9 - "Ontario Provincial Election Night Open House" (Wed, Oct 10, 2007) - We are now cable-ready folks. Yeh!!! (((...Streaming server is next on our agenda...)))
jwcurry's - "Messagio Galore: a jwcurry quartet #4" (Sat, Oct 6, 2007)
#8 - "Kubrick's 2001 Trilogy" (Sat, Sept 15, 2007)
#7 - "Death House: dee Class of '93" (Mon, Sept 10, 2007)
#6 - "MC Shanger's 'Rushes Trilogy'" (Sat, Sept 29, 2007)
#5 - "Dario Argento's Goblin Trilogy" (Sat, Aug 25, 2007)
#4 - "a 20-hr Mario Bava mini-me Movie Marathon" (Fri&Sat, Aug 17&18, 2007)
#3 - "Remember Our Fallen Filmmakers Night!!!" (Sat, Nov 11, 2006)
#2 - "2 Banned Hell-o-ween Films" (Tues, Oct 31, 2006)
#1 - "12-hr 'Friday dee 13th' Movie Marathon" (Fri dee 13th of Oct, 2006)
Future events (dates & details TBA soon):
"Frederick Wiseman: Master Documenteur"
"Ed's Night Out!!!"
"Remember Our fallen Filmmakers Night II" (Sun, Nov 11/007)
"Audience Randamonium #2"
"Icelandic Cinema"
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