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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>The Corporation (NR)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, November 19<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, November 20 & 21<BR>
4:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>Tickets: $5 adults, $2/child 12 or under<BR>
KFS passes valid for Sunday shows<BR>
<B>(See Review below)<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adults, $2 children 12 and younger. <BR>
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508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>THE CORPORATION<BR>
</H2></FONT>Documentary Film<BR>
Directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott; <BR>
Written by Joel Bakan, based on his book ''The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power,'' <BR>
with narration written by Harold Crooks and Mark Achbar<BR>
Running time: 2 hours, 25 minutes. <BR>
This film is not rated. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by by Anita Katz writing for the San Francisco Examiner<BR>
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As audience-friendly as it is pointed and scarier than anything you'll find in "Van Helsing," "The Corporation" is a nonfiction horror flick that presents the big-business company as a psychopathic monster. It makes a compelling, and entertaining, case for that view. <BR>
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Using reportage, facts and figures and interviews with seven CEOs, three VPs, two whistle-blowers, and notables such as filmmaker Michael Moore, MIT professor Noam Chomsky and economist Milton Friedman, Canadian directors Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott have created a primer on the growth of the corporation, from its 19th-century origins as a chartered public-service entity to its current distinction as the world's most powerful institution.<BR>
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A corporation, thanks to a bizarre interpretation of the 14th Amendment, is legally a person, the movie notes, but is designed to put the bottom line above all else. Addressing the question, an FBI psychological consultant using a checklist for antisocial behaviors -- reckless disregard for others' safety and the inability to experience guilt, for starters -- paints a portrait of the corporation as a psychopath.<BR>
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The film supports this contention with data galore, examining, among other things, corporations' exploitation of workers, destruction of the environment and quest to own everything from airspace to genomes. <BR>
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Though the filmmakers clearly side with the little guy, their interview subjects reflect a range of opinion. Chomsky urges a shift from corporate to public agencies. Moore notes that corporations will distribute his movies despite their disdain for his anti-corporate ideas because his movies make money. Friedman talks the free-market line. Ray Anderson, the carpet super-company chief who emerges as the film's unlikely hero, describes his environmental awakening and conversion to sustainability practices.<BR>
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The film succeeds foremost, however, by demonstrating the corporate-greed factor -- and its colossal impact on the public good -- via a wealth of cases-in-point that, even in these jaded times, prove disturbing. It should also be noted, in these days when it tends to take a Michael Moore or a Morgan Spurlock, rather than a Frederick Wiseman, to attract viewers to documentaries, that "The Corporation" is no downer and has an engaging, accessible tone. Many of the interviewees are colorful talkers. And the film's ultimate message -- that people often have the power to keep corporations in check -- is a heartening one. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by A. O. Scott writing for the New York Times<BR>
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The film's formal inelegance is a sign of its seriousness, and also of the complexity of its chosen subject. The topic, after all, is intricate and global, and Mr. Achbar and Ms. Abbott address it with spiky, dogged intelligence, if also with hectoring persistence. <BR>
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Corporate power is at once self-evident and elusive, mundane and esoteric, aggressive and insinuating. In the view of the filmmakers and most of their interview subjects, it is always bad and never to be trusted. The imperative to expand makes the corporation a fundamentally predatory being, gobbling up everything in its path -- natural resources, populations of potential laborers and consumers, public spaces and private aspirations -- without conscience or accountability. <BR>
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In other words, ''The Corporation'' is a monster movie, and nobody, faced with so much alarming testimony, would want to defend Godzilla as he smashes buildings and tramples streetcars. But like other, less sophisticated efforts to articulate a comprehensive anti-corporate ideology, this movie occasionally ensnares itself in contradictions it does not quite acknowledge. <BR>
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What is missing from ''The Corporation'' is any recognition that capitalism survives at least as much on seduction as on coercion, and that it has flourished not simply by means of chicanery and domination but by extending, and often fulfilling, promises of freedom, creativity and individual choice. <BR>
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It may sound strange to say this about a left-wing documentary, but ''The Corporation'' might have benefited from a bit more Marxism. Marx, among the first to identify the malign features of capitalism, was also a persuasive analyst of its dynamism, its progressiveness and its corrosive effect on older forms of political and cultural authority. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Kim Lesch, originally published in: Lumière Reader 4, Winter 2004<BR>
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Michael Moore, saint 'o Cannes, has been receiving some bad press as of late. Upon viewing another truth seeker's film, “The Corporation,” I see him receiving some more, despite his generous nature to include himself in this gem. "And why is this?" you might inquire. It is due to Moore's skills as a truth teller, narrator, and whip smart filmmaking savvy. “The Corporation,” put simply, will not only scare the stuffing out of you, it will raise the poignant question of what aims he has in the face of the documentary in its finest, non-personality driven form. <BR>
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Fair enough, there is no criticism to be had for a man who has made his dough by working hard and being intelligent enough to keep a decent share of rights and royalties. But during his crowning weeks of glory at Cannes, the recipient of the Palm d'Or from another director who likes to put himself in front of the camera, people are beginning to question the ethics of the Most Ethical Filmmaker in the World. <BR>
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But I gigantically digress! The point: “The Corporation” seeks to instigate thought and action from its viewers by exposing the sickly white underbelly of corporate success. This non-personality driven piece delves into how corporations enable themselves to have the legal rights of a human being, how they justify illegal actions that cause damage to humans, the environment, and animals, and how they are now snatching up the rights to our very DNA. There are plenty more sins to mention, it's a long film, just know that the film is completely packed with information, O.K.? <BR>
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<I>Reviews researched and edited by Peter A. Haggart<BR>
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