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DESCRIPTION:Friday, June 10 - Thursday, June 16   Nightly at 7:00pm with additional 
 Wed, Sat & Sun matinees at (12:00 noon) & 3:30. Admission=$10.00  
 http://www.roxie.com    SF Indie Fest presents   The Power of 
 Nightmares:The Rise of the Politics of Fear  SF Indie Fest presents this 
 uncut, BBC series of documentary films about how fear has come to dominate 
 politics not only in America, but throughout the world, and how much of 
 that fear is based on illusion. The films tell the story of the rise of 
 today’s nightmare vision of a hidden, organized network of terror and 
 show clearly how much of that threat has been distorted and exaggerated by 
 politicians. In an age disillusioned with optimistic political visions of 
 the future, politicians have stumbled on a new force that can restore their 
 power and authority, the fear of a hidden and organized web of evil which 
 they can protect their people from. These films show how that fantasy was 
 created, and why, by telling an epic story that starts in America in 1949 
 and ends in the present day. At the heart of the story are two groups, the 
 American Neoconservatives and the Radical Islamists. Both these groups were 
 idealists born out of the failure of the post-war liberal optimism, and 
 both had very similar explanations for why that failure had occurred. Both 
 groups did change the world, but not in the way either intended. Their 
 actions over the last thirty years have led to today’s strange fantasy of 
 fear which has spread through all levels of government, the security 
 services and the international media. A fantasy that no-one questions 
 because those with the darkest nightmares have become the most powerful. 
 England. 2004. Runningtime: 180 minutes. ADMISSION=$10.00. Showtimes: 
 Nightly at 7:00pm with additional Wed, Sat & Sun matinees at (12:00 noon) & 
 3:30.   "Adam Curtis has created a controversial, myth-shattering 
 three-part BBC series to top his magnificent Century of the Self… It is 
 necessary for every citizen to see The Power of Nightmares—and probably 
 more than once."   - David Thomson.   "A superb, eye-opening and often 
 absurdly funny deconstruction of the myths and realities of global 
 terrorism" -- Scott Foundas, Variety   "Highly detailed, scrupulously 
 researched, and littered with revealing interviews, it derives a great deal 
 of its impact from an idiosyncratic collage of archival footage, television 
 clips, and excerpts from old movies." -- Chris Darke, Film Comment   Feign 
 of Terror -- Adam Curtis, Village Voice  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/08/68703.php
SUMMARY:THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES
LOCATION:Roxie Cinema  3116 16th St.  SF, CA  94114
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/08/68703.php
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