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DESCRIPTION:The Howard Zinn Book Fair welcomes legendary film director and writer Alex 
 Cox (El Patrullero, Repo Man, Sid and Nancy) to San Francisco for a special 
 screening and discussion at Piano Fight in San Francisco on November 29th, 
 8 PM (doors 7:30).\n\nCox will present his 1987 film Walker, a neo-Western 
 biopic about William Walker, an American mercenary who made himself 
 president of Nicaragua in 1856. Walker is almost unknown today but at the 
 time he was wildly popular, and U.S. newspapers wrote about him more than 
 they did about the sitting U.S. presidents during that period.\n\nAlex Cox 
 decided to make a film about William Walker, on location in Nicaragua, 
 during the height of the Cold War in Central America, when Ronald 
 Reagan’s government was pouring millions of dollars into supporting 
 sociopathic dictators and paramilitary death-squads across the region. Cox, 
 Joe Strummer of The Clash (who recorded the soundtrack and who appears 
 briefly in the film), and a band of determined producers, crew and cast 
 worked with the brand new revolutionary Sandinista government of 
 Nicaragua’s film ministry, to produce what has been described as an 
 “Acid Western” and what Cox himself says is his best work.\n\nPlease 
 join us for an evening of cinema and discussion at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, 
 November 29th at Piano Fight, located at 144 Taylor Street in San Francisco 
 between Eddy and Turk. The nearest BART Station is Powell 
 Street.\n\nTICKETS AVAILABLE AT 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/howard-zinn-book-fair-presents-film-director-alex-cox-tickets-28879395048.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/28/18794227.php
SUMMARY:Legendary Film About Nicaraguan Dictator By Legendary Film Maker - Howard Zinn Book Fair
LOCATION:Piano Fight\n144 Taylor Street\nSan Francisco, CA\nBetween Turk and Eddy - 
 very close to Powell St. BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/28/18794227.php
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