Movie Night: Punishment Park
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Monday, May 22


NOTE: Monday, May 15th screening has been cancelled due to a private party, our Front Dining Room will remain open.

Wolfy's on tour with Young People. But so, he can't be here but he was the one who thought we should show this brilliant fake-documentary, which was recently re-released for your DVD purchasing. And this was long before Art Forum decided this film was crucial cinema.

My friend, Amazon, says of Punishment Park:

Call it a pseudo-documentary, an outrageous piece of propaganda, perhaps even a paranoid fantasy, but one description that definitely does not apply to Punishment Park is "light entertainment." Brit director Peter Watkins offers a chilling scenario, set in the early '70s, in which, according to an edict called the McCarran Act (which did exist, albeit in different form), the U.S. government has the right to detain (without bail, evidence, or anything resembling a fair trial) anyone who "probably will engage in certain future acts of sabotage."

Monday, May 22
Admission: FREE
Showtimes: 7:30pm & 10pm
reservations can be made