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from the issue of July 15, 2004
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Now playing at the Ross
Two of the year's most talked-about and popular documentaries are now playing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Both will play through July 22. For show times and more information, call 472-5353 or visit www.theross.org.
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| | | Morgan Spurlock is the director and star of Super Size Me, now showing at the Ross Media Arts Center. Courtesy of www.supersizeme.com.
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• Super Size Me documents filmmaker Morgan Spurlock as he eats only at McDonald's for 30 days. In that time he puts on 20 pounds, develops heart palpitations and is rendered impotent. Spurlock also interviews experts in 20 U.S. cities to discuss the research and opinions about America's expanding girth and forays into schools, where cafeterias often offer nutritionally poor foods and health and physical education courses have been cut.
• Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, offers Michael Moore's thoughts on the current state of America and especially President George W. Bush, including the powerful role oil and greed may have played after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Ross will show the Cinema India! Showcase 2004 from July 23 to Aug. 5. The showcase, titled "The Changing Face of Indian Cinema," features a six-film retrospective of some of the best films from the Indian film industry, which is known for its "Bollywood" style. More than 800 movies are released in India each year, from lavish musicals to epic love stories. The six films showing as part of the showcase were picked from hundreds of mainstream Indian hits and top international film festivals to highlight new trends and contemporary classics.
The showcase is coming to Lincoln as part of a 10-stop tour over the summer. It begins July 23 with an Indian dinner catered by The Oven and a movie. The featured films include The Braveheart Will Take The Bride, a musical love story that's been playing in Bombay for eight years; I Have Found It, a Southern Indian adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility; Anything Can Happen, a gangland fantasia; Maqbool, a retelling of Macbeth; Bariwali (The Lady Of The House), an art house drama; and The Speaking Hand, a documentary about legendary tabla player Zakir Hussain. All films have English subtitles.
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