The Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah to screen JULIEN TEMPLE’S acclaimed 2007 feature “JOE STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN”
8 pm, Wednesday, August 6th at The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse
FREE FOR ALL-AGES, BUT VOLUNTARY DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED, WITH 100% OF ALL PROCEEDS BENEFITING THE
RECOVERY FUND OF ARDSLEY PARK SHOOTING VICTIMS
JASON STATTS AND DAVID J. WILLIAMS
What: 2007 “Rock-umentary Film” – Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
When: 8 pm, Wednesday, August 6 (seating begins at 7:30 pm for ALL-AGES)
Where: The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse – 13 E. Park Ave. downtown
Cost: FREE, with Voluntary Donations to the Statts / Williams Shooting Victims Recovery Fund
Info: www.myspace.com/psychotronicfilms, www.sentientbean.com
The Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah, in conjunction with local music aficionado Larry Dane-Kellog and Sony Pictures, are proud to present a free showing of this award-winning (named Best British Documentary of 2007 by the British Independent Film Awards) feature-length look at the life and times of famed rock star Joe Strummer, front man of British punk legends The Clash.
Four years after his sudden and untimely death, Strummer’s influence reaches worldwide, perhaps more strongly than ever before. Director Temple, a close friend of Strummers, draws on their shared personal history in the punk movement (Temple directed The Sex Pistols’ infamous film THE GREAT ROCK & ROLL SWINDLE), and constructed this “biographical art movie” out of rare performance footage, home movies and animated sequences. It includes on-screen interviews with Bono, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Johnny Depp, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joe Ely, Mick Jagger, Jim Jarmusch and others.
While there is no admission charge to see the film, voluntary donations will be accepted on behalf of local rock musicians Jason Statts and David J. Williams, both of whom suffered life-threatening injuries as the result of a savage, unprovoked shooting in Ardsley Park this past July 28th. Williams was recently released from Intensive Care, but has a long road to recovery ahead of him, and is uninsured. Statts is currently paralyzed from the waist down and has limited movement in his arms and none in his hands. He remains hospitalized in Atlanta and requires 24-hour care.
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About the Psychotronic Film Society:
For 5 years now, The Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah has served as the area’s only non-profit film society dedicated solely to screening cult, indie, experimental and fringe cinema from around the world. They specialize in programming two types of films – those never before released in the USA, and those which have, but which likely have never been seen by the average viewer in a public setting.
Every Wednesday night, they show an amazingly diverse selection of features in the intimate, 50-seat, screening room environment of the award-winning Sentient Bean Coffeehouse and Vegetarian Restaurant on the Southern end of Forsyth Park – and occasionally screen major films on 35mm at the historic 1,200-seat Lucas Theatre for The Arts, and on video at the Jepson Center for The Arts’ 220-seat auditorium. To date, these selections have included first-run films on the festival circuit, little-known gems from decades past, and extraordinarily rare “lost” films which exist only in the hands of diehard private collectors.
Whether these are horror or sci-fi flicks, dramas, comedies, mysteries, thrillers, film noirs, musicals, martial arts movies, concert films, documentaries, “grindhouse” pictures, foreign films or avant-garde, experimental art-house pics, as long as they’re good examples of their genre, The PFS shows them all!
The PFS has been profiled on Georgia Public Broadcasting, in glossy culture mags such as Murmur, The South and Savannah Magazine, and in newspapers such as Connect Savannah and the Savannah Morning News. It was even recommended in the New York Times as a “must-do” event while visiting the town’s Historic Downtown.
