[IMC-Editorial] Noam Chomsky film "Power and Terror" opens this month

[Two Cents Productions]

POWER AND TERROR: NOAM CHOMSKY IN OUR OUR TIMES
Opens in New York on Friday, November 22 at Film Forum

Upcoming screenings in Chicago, San Francisco and other cities

VISIT www.firstrunfeatures.com for updated theatre listings and VHS/DVD
information


"Everyone¹s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there¹s a really easy
way: Stop participating in it."
     -Noam Chomsky

Whether Noam Chomsky, the MIT linguist and political philosopher, is "the
most important intellectual alive," as The New York Times once famously
called him, is open for debate. But without a doubt, Chomsky, now 73, is one
of the most straight-talking and committed dissidents of our time. A
steadfast critic of United States foreign policy for decades, his profile
took a quantum leap in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September
11 as he provided much-needed analysis and historical perspective to
concerned citizens throughout the world. In the months that followed, he
gave dozens of talks on four continents, conducted scores of interviews, and
published a book -- 9-11 -- that was published in 22 countries (in 25
languages)
and became a surprise bestseller in many of them, including Japan, where
POWER AND TERROR: NOAM CHOMSKY IN OUR TIMES was produced.

Chomsky¹s voice may be unpopular (he is almost totally ignored by the
mainstream American press) but his incisive arguments, based on decades of
research and analysis, deserve to be heard and considered. POWER AND TERROR
presents the latest in Noam Chomsky¹s thinking, through a lengthy interview
and a series of public talks that he gave in New York and California during
the spring of 2002. As he has done countless times since 9.11, he places the
terrorist attacks in the context of American foreign intervention throughout
the postwar decades -- in Vietnam, Central America, the Middle East, and
elsewhere. Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of
violence against civilian populations is terror, regardless of whether the
perpetrator is a well-organized band of Muslim extremists or the most
powerful state in the world, Chomsky--in stark and uncompromising
term--challenges the United States to apply to its own actions the moral
standards it demands of others.

What emerges from the footage is a compelling portrait of the activist
intellectual, who has been called the "rebel without a pause" by Bono, lead
singer of the band U2. Chomsky is the most important voice of dissent in the
United States today.

Opens November 22 in New York City at Film Forum
Showtimes: 1:10  4:45  8:10  10:00
Theatre Info: 212.727.8110
Buy Tickets Online!  www.filmforum.com

Plays January 10-16
The Times Theater
Milwaukee, WI

Plays January 29 - February 5
The Castro Theatre
San Francisco, CA
www.thecastrotheatre.com

Opens February 7
Music Box Theatre
Chicago, IL
www.musicboxtheatre.com

VISIT www.firstrunfeatures.com for updated theatre listings and VHS / DVD
information

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POWER AND TERROR: NOAM CHOMSKY IN OUR TIMES is directed by John Junkerman,
director of the Academy Award-nominated HELLFIRE: A JOURNEY FROM HIROSHIMA.
Producer: Tetsujiro Yamagami. Photography: Koshiro Otsu. Editors: John
Junkerman, Takeshi Hata. Sound: Yutaka Tsurumaki. Japan. 74 minutes. A First
Run Features Release. Unrated.

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