[IMC-Editorial] REVEREND BILLY versus MICHAEL MOORE

Mon Aug 4 00:41:34 PDT 2003

NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD IN GERMANY!

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PRESS RELEASE
Contact: 
play loud! productions
Dietmar Post + Lucia Palacios
info at playloud.org
http://www.playloud.org/revbilly.html

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SCREENING of documentary film REVEREND BILLY & THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING
at Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106
Wed., August 27, 2003 at 7 PM
Fri., August 29, 2003 at 7 PM
FOR PRESS INQUIRIES contact John Ewing at jcewing at clevelandart.org, phone
216-707-2465
Admission $7, Members $5, Students & Seniors $3, tickets 216-421-7350
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ASK FOR PRESS COPY + DETAILED PRESS KIT
photographs are available upon request
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-- +++ ANTI-GLOBALIZATION AND POLITCAL STREET THEATRE +++

REVEREND BILLY & THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING
directed by Dietmar Post
produced by Lucia Palacios
(Documentary, USA/Germany/Spain 2002, Digital Video, 16:9, 60 min, DVD with
30 min extras, German & Spanish subtitles)

Street theater and anti-globalization fervor, religion and Rock 'n' Roll,
Situationism and political conviction. Living Theater and Surveillance
Camera Acting. Filmmaker Post accompanies performance artist Reverend Billy,
a.k.a. Bill Talen into the centers of consumerism in New York City and gets
arrested by the NYPD ...
http://www.playloud.org/revbilly.html

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AWARDS
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2nd Winner Best Documentary at
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Australia, July 2003

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REVIEWS
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Boston Herald
Boston Globe
Chicago Tribune

"Like Michael Moore, Reverend Billy puts himself on the line,
exposing corporate pomposity wherever he finds it."
San Francisco Independent Film Festival

"The film is a fine piece of not only political and social commentary, but
also of cinema verite."
University of California, School of Humanities

"A rebellious film."
ZITTY-Stadtmagazin Berlin, Germany

Recommended by radioEINS (Berlin, Germany)

"Which American TV station will have the guts to show this film?"
Albert Maysles, Filmmaker, New York

"Though the collar is fake, the call is real."
Alisa Solomon, Village Voice, New York

"The most hilarious and pointed political theater in New York."
Jonathan Kalb, New York Times

"An extraordinary DVD."
TRUST Magazine, Germany

"What makes Reverend Billy so effective is his mix of savvy street theatre
and humor, while Post does an expert job of capturing Talen's intelligence
and off-the-wall passion. This informative and hilarious DVD also includes a
half-hour interview with Bill in his home. Hallelujah!"
Shock Cinema, New York

"Post's most volatile footage involves authorities employing all manner of
methods to deal with Reverend Billy, up to and including arrest. Reverend
Billy isn't as belligerent as Andy Kaufman or as famous as Michael Moore, so
the confrontations have an unpredictable excitement. Best of all are the
many moments when German filmmaker Post puts a camera on Reverend Billy's
misfires and imperfections.
Highly entertaining."
Janice Page, Boston Globe

"Schlingensiefs "Schule der Revolutionäre" ist eng geistesverwandt mit Bill
Talens Unterricht in einer Master Class in "Political Performance".
Das auf diese DVD gebannte DV-Material von Dietmar Post und Lucia Palacios
ist durchgehend pointiert zusammengestellt und spart nicht an unterhaltsamen
Details."
A.C. Horn, Splatting Image

"A forceful portrait of a braveheart fighting against windmills, filmed in
the tradition of cinema verité."
The Ex-Berliner Magazine

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NOW SCREENING:
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CLEVELAND, OHIO PREMIERE
at Cleveland Museum of Art
August 27 & 29, 2003

FREIBURG (GERMANY)
at Kommunales Kino Freiburg, Tel 0761-709033
http://www.freiburger-medienforum.de
Aug 28, 2003 at 20:30 h
Aug 29, 2003 at 22:00 h
Aug 30, 2003 at 20:00 h
Sept 5, 2003 at 22:00 h
press screening TBA

NÜRNBERG (GERMANY)
Wed Sept 24, 2003 at 22:30
Fri Sept 26, 2003 at 23:00
THIRD SHOWING TBA
at Nürnberger Filmfestival der Menschenrechte (Human Rights Film Festival)
c/o Filmhaus, Königstraße 93, 90402 Nürnberg, Tel.  0911/231 83 29
http://www.fitame.de

HOUSTON (USA) PREMIERE
at Aurora Picture Show
2 screenings on National Buy Nothing Day in November 2003
(the day after Thanksgiving).
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org

SOON IN:
Iceland, Spain, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, the United Kingdom,
more German cities

PREVIOUSLY IN:
- Belgrade (BELEF, Belgrade Summer Arts Festival, July 2003)
- Austin (2 screenings, July 2003 Alamo Drafthouse)
- Melbourne (Australia) Underground Film Festival (July 2003)
- Berlin (3 screenings/June 2003 Lichtblick Kino)
- Washington D.C. Underground Film Festival (May 2003)
- Boston (1 week May 2003 Coolidge Corner Theatre)
- Rotterdam (April 2003 Worm & Witte de With Art Center)
- Berlin (2 weeks March/April 2003 Kino Brotfabrik)
- Jacksonville, FL (March 2003 Subterranean Cinema)
- Kiel (March 2003  Filmgruppe Chaos)
- San Francisco (Feb 2003 Independent FF)
- Vancouver (Jan 2003 Blinding Light)
- Seattle (2 days Nov 2002 North West Film Forum)
- Chicago Underground Film Festival (Aug 2002, world premiere)

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CONTACT:
play loud! productions - Gubener Strasse 23 - 10243 Berlin (Germany)
(formerly based in New York)
Ph. +49 30 2977 9315 - Fax +49 30 2977 9316
email: info at playloud.org
http://www.playloud.org
http://www.playloud.org/revbilly.html
http://www.playloud.org/revbillypress.html
http://www.playloud.org/revbillyscreenings.html
http://www.playloud.org/revbillypresskit.html

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MORE ARTICLES IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, SWEDISH AT:
http://revbilly.com/revsite/Press/press.htm
A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY WAS PUT TOGETHER BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN:
http://art-design.umich.edu/ps/bib_billy.html
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THE DVD IS AVAILABLE IN THE US THROUGH:
http://www.atomicbooks.com
http://www.olivejuicemusic.com

OR DIRECTLY THROUGH:
http://www.playloud.org/revbilly.html

IN GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA THROUGH:
http://www.absolutmedien.de/film.php?view=film&id=370
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UP-COMING:
PLAY LOUD!'s long awaited documentary film on the first avant-garde rock
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"THE MONKS - THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK"
Info & trailer at http://www.playloud.org/themonks.html