hello sorry for the mass mailing but...

I just got a phone call from a dear friend of mine who is a filmmaker
-- his most recent documentary starts its one week run at the Roxie
here in SF (Friday, July 29th - Thursday, August 4). I'll let the
reviewer of sfweekly.com give you the scoop, he does a much better
job than i could. check it out!

Ramon


Occupation: Dreamland
Not Rated
Were it not for the tepid, overrated Gunner Palace, which likewise
turned the cameras on soldiers stationed in Iraq, perhaps Occupation:
Dreamland would have received the major distribution deal it
deserves; instead, it’s sneaking into theaters on a threadbare promo
budget, as befitting, perhaps, filmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds’
DIY doc, in which Army soldiers from the left and right meet in the
middle of hell (Fallujah, actually, though same dif). Scott and Olds
went to Iraq all by their lonesome and got embedded with the 82nd
Airborne, stationed in Fallujah just before the city fell under the
control of the insurgents, who hanged three contractors in effigy. In
their doc, soldiers argue politics and the motivations of the
president, and offer their own feelings about whether they’re
occupiers or liberators; after all, says one soldier, they, too,
would hate it if a foreign soldier kicked down their doors night
after night. Their honesty is at times shocking, so rare is the
opportunity to listen to the battlefield disagreements of men sent
off to war; just as startling is their ability to maintain a brave
face as they wrestle to keep the peace in a town about to explode.
Scott and Olds’ is an essential movie, and one of the year’s very
best. -- Robert Wilonsky

(sfweekly.com)

(movie times) http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=22320

http://occupationdreamland.com/


Ramon Carlos Urenia

Web Administrator

Study Abroad Italy
7151 Wilton Avenue, Suite 202
Sebastopol, CA. 95472
USA

800 - 655 - 8965
fax (707) 824- 0198

www.studyabroaditaly.com



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]