Docutime

Once again a dedicated community of documentary-lovers can experience sophisticated and inspiring entertainment. [Mini] DocuTime takes place at UNCW’s King Hall Auditorium at 4:00 pm on Saturday, September 15th, 2012. Advance Tickets available online at www.etix.com or at Sharky's Box Office on the first floor of the Fisher Student Center. Advance ticket sales end Saturday, September 15 at noon, but may be purchased at the door: $10.00 for general admission, and free entry for students with ID. Doors open at 3:00. Parking at the Fischer Student Center Lot off Hamilton Dr.

Film Schedule:

4:00PM - Night Mail - Directors: Basil Wright and Harry Watt

Featuring a poem by W.H. Auden as part of its narration, Night Mail blends lyricism and realism to assert an unabashedly positive view of working life and a hymn to Industrial Britain. On a narrative level, the films follows a London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) mail train from London to Scotland. On a philosophical level, perhaps more than any other film of the period (or since), Night Mail encapsulates everything about The Locomotive Age that continues to attract such fervent admiration in so many people. (1936; 25 min.)

4:45PM - Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe - Director: Mel Blank

As now-famous documentarian Errol Morris was working on his first film, veteran director Werner Herzog made a bet that if Morris finished the movie, he’d eat his own shoe. This film features Herzog keeping his promise, cooking his shoes at the Berkeley, CA restaurant Chez Panisse with the help of chef Alice Waters and then eating them (and waxing philosophic) on stage. See the film for Herzog’s trademark drily humorous remarks, but don’t hold out for him to eat the sole of the shoe — as he says in the film, “One does not eat the bones of the chicken.” (1980; 20 min.)

5:30PM - Brooklyn Bridge - Director: Ken Burns

Ken Burns, revered for his epic-length documentaries like The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, and Prohibition, narrowed his focus to the Brooklyn Bridge in his debut documentary short. Narrated by historian David McCullough, on whose book the film is based, this documentary considers the largest bridge of its era: a technical achievement of unparalleled scope marked by enormous construction problems, equally ingenious solutions, and heroic human achievement. Brooklyn Bridge explores how a bridge captured the American imagination and became a symbol of strength, vitality, ingenuity, and promise. (1981; 60 min.)

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