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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     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/2005/06/08/68713.php
SUMMARY:THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES
LOCATION:Roxie Cinema  3116 16th St. at Valencia  SF  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/08/68713.php
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