[Peakoil-announce] Free Film: THE CORPORATION (Tuesday 30th May)

[Robert Wiblin]

Tuesday 30th May Film: THE CORPORATION

The Haydon-Allen Tank Theatre, ANU 30th May 2006 6.30pm start

Fair trade tea, coffee and chocolate with free beer for those who want it!
Hope to see you there!

Presented by the ANU Environment Collective

More details from the collective website:
http://www.greenguide.net.au/anuec/?q=node/84

http://www.thecorporation.com

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/
<http://www.thecorporation.com/>

The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant
institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and
corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives.
Taking its legal status as a 'person' to its logical conclusion, the film
puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person
is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes
forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton
Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true
confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

In The Corporation, case studies, anecdotes and true confessions reveal
behind-the-scenes tensions and influences in several corporate and
anti-corporate dramas. Each illuminates an aspect of the corporation's
complex character.

Among the 40 interview subjects are CEOs and top-level executives from a
range of industries: oil, pharmaceutical, computer, tire, manufacturing,
public relations, branding, advertising and undercover marketing; in
addition, a Nobel-prize winning economist, the first management guru, a
corporate spy, and a range of academics, critics, historians and thinkers
are interviewed.

The film is based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of
Profit and Power by Joel Bakan.

"Fast-paced, highly enjoyable and provocative"
**
*- Bill White, *Seattle Post-Intelligencer


"Powerful. Make an effort to see it"
***- Peter Vonder Haar, *Film Threat


"A cogent, compelling, powerful argument, and also... a terrific movie."
***- *Premiere Magazine


"Coolheaded and incisive...thorough and informative... It leaves audiences
with a cold shiver"
***- Mick LaSalle, *San Francisco Chronicle

-- 
Robert Wiblin
robertwiblin at gmail.com
Ph: 0401242877 (Optus Prepaid)
Burgmann College, ANU
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