Find out where rat film 2017 is streaming, if rat film 2017 is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the rat as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill themto explore the history of baltimore. Actual rats with their whiplike tails, twitchy noses, and miraculous survival skills that have tormented baltimore city for over a century. The edmund sections are played straight, a camera on edmund as he makes his rounds, pontificating. Wild about movies provides you the most uptodate 2017 movies information online. Seattles only movie times calendar, from the stranger. Check out the new trailer directed by theo anthony. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the ratas well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill themto explore the history of baltimore. Mar 29, 2017 10 posts published by bernardovillela during march 2017. The rat catcher makes predictions, the locals hunt for rats at night on the streets or lie in wait with a gun in the garden. How dan deacon collaborated with rats to make his latest film score. Our list of movies in theaters in 2017 is even more accurate than the imdb database. From its first kinetic images of a panicked rat struggling to leap out of the trash bin in which its trapped, rat film offers an experience both cerebral and visceral.
Huberts reappearance in the altogether slash fridge. Theres never been a rat problem in baltimore, its always been a people problem. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the rat as well as the humans. An aimless teenager on the outer edges of brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of selfidentity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online. The film follows a sixmember crew of the international space. A survey of the history, social problems and inequalities of. This years awards were dominated by get out, which pulled in three big wins, but call me by your name prevailed as best feature. It was also included on his 1972 album of the same title. Aug 25, 2017 beach rats, writerdirector eliza hittmans second feature, has a plot, sort of, but the plot isnt really the thing here. Life is a 2017 american scifi horror film directed by daniel espinosa, written by rhett reese and paul wernick and starring jake gyllenhaal, rebecca ferguson, and ryan reynolds. Rat film is filled with information but anthony uses a variety of styles to enter multiple worlds. What can we learn about a society from the way that it treats its lowest echelons, both in terms of humans and animals. It makes you think, wonder, and feel a lot of emotions all at once.
Click on any of the 2017 movie posters images for complete information about all. Storming across the desert in search of action, adventure, and rommel. All songs considered deacons music for the documentary rat film is a pulsing electronic soundscape made, in part, by rats. Be the first to watch, comment, and share indie trailers, clips. The theme song, ben, is performed by singer michael jackson. The film focuses on the transformation of a workingclass man into a rat and how his family copes with the startling change. Sep 11, 2017 watch the clip titled norway rat for the film rat film 2017. Theo anthonys extraordinary rat film is many things at once. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the ratas well as. At its core, anthonys film uses the problem of rat infestation in baltimore as a window into our citys systemic history of segregation. Oct, 2017 rat film soundtrack from 2017, composed by dan deacon. Unfortunately, it feels almost too bizarre for its own good, and ultimately looses a lot of its impact due to its strange and very inconsistent visuals, tone, and themes. Oct 03, 2017 rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the rat as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill themto explore the history of baltimore.
Rat film is a story about baltimore that isnt just about baltimore. Rat film, directed by theo anthony, film society of lincoln center, september 1529, 2017. Rat film tackles an unusual and complex subject in an original and engrossing manner, although the oversimplified. Rat film 2017 across walls, fences and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. The way he has woven them together like an extended jazz riff will have you thinking about rat film long after the screen has gone. Whilst rat film is about a lot more than rats, it is still about rats. Rat is a complete and utter shaggy dog story set in ireland, only the shaggy dog is a rat. A featurelength documentary looking at rats and their role in baltimore. Rat film director theo anthony is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker currently.
Superb, formally inventive documentary smells a rat and it is us the film examines many facets of baltimores social and political history to drive a pointed, deliberate argument. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the ratas well as the humans. Its a very funny film, because it is so intelligent in portraying basic human nature. There are plenty of new movies waiting to be discovered this weekend, so get to. Superb, formally inventive documentary smells a rat and it is us the film examines many facets of baltimores social and political history to. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the ratas well as the humans that love. The movie rat bernardo villela is like a mallrat except at the movies. A brooklyn teenager spends his days experimenting with drugs and looking online for older men to meet with.
Documentary takes a look at the norway rat, which makes for an ideal model for the human population. The unlikely star of the movie is harold edmond, a senior member of. By following the rats, theo anthony reveals economic and racial segregation in the city of baltimore. In the north african campaign of world war ii, an elite team of allied soldiers rides the dunes to battle the dreaded afrika korps of the german army. Early on in rat film, edmund, the philosophical rat exterminator, exclaims. Sxsw film, sxsw, sxsw film 2017, rat film, theo anthony. Beach rats, writerdirector eliza hittmans second feature, has a plot, sort of, but the plot isnt really the thing here. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the ratas well as the humans that love them. How dan deacon collaborated with rats to make his latest. Video archive for the film rat film, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2017. What this has to do with rats is not particularly clear. This years awards were dominated by get out, which pulled in three big wins, but call me by your name prevailed as. Rat film a film by theo anthony theatrical trailer youtube. The characters are funny, especially the policewoman who says sorry all the time.
Rat 2000 april 25, 2017 june 19, 2017 lamovieboeuf leave a comment. The best features, biggest stories, and news making moments of 2017 in one place. Jul 24, 2018 javier zarracinavox this story is part of a group of stories called. Rat film soundtrack from 2017, composed by dan deacon.
The 2017 gotham independent film awards honored the best of the best in indie moviemaking from across the past. Archival maps and photos illuminating redlining, poverty, and racism collide with striking images. A film connects rat control and racism in baltimore. These observations lend an air of unreality to the city. How do people act and react to someone whose appearance of humanness has been removed. This film tells the story of a young girl, who has a rat that can dance. In rat film, a city of rodents and racial oppression the. Aug 18, 2017 across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat film tackles an unusual and complex subject in an original and engrossing manner, although the oversimplified racial metaphor is somewhat offensive.
A complex tale of social justice, urban forestry and community politics, city of trees portrays the struggles of a dc nonprofit to challenge the cycle of poverty and violence in blighted urban areas by implementing an ambitious green jobs program that hires 150 unemployed residents to plant trees in underserved parks. Drawing on the filmessay tools exemplified by chris marker and harun farocki and the augmentedtruth approach to documentary found in werner herzogs filmography, anthony. Though theo anthonys eclectic documentary rat film has the. There are so many intimate, raw, emotional breakthroughs, to the point that this film could have. From the flurry of sequences that launches rat film, theo anthonys experimental documentary about segregation in baltimore, its immediately apparent that the film is constructed from juxtapositions. A singular, illuminating look at baltimores social.
In rat film, the catastrophic failures of urban society in baltimore is explored via the brown norway rat, dirty pest to man but also an ideal subject for experimental study. Rat film connecting rat population and classism in baltimore. Film a film connects rat control and racism in baltimore. There are currently four videos available for the film, of which two are trailers, as listed below. With brian nazarof, eldra vegas iii jackson, thaddeus boudreaux, andrew dark cloud molino. Dec 14, 2017 across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. He is a writer, director, editor and film enthusiast who seeks to continue to explore and learn about cinema, chronicle the journey and share his findings. The 27th annual gotham independent film awards, presented by the independent filmmaker project, were held on november 27, 2017. Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Get out, writerdirector jordan peeles surprise smash of a scary movie, led the pack of nominations for the 2017 gotham awards.
Rat film is ostensibly about baltimores rat problem, about how the city has historically dealt with and studied and used parts of their poorest neighborhoods to address pest control, trialand. The story is full of dichotomous, black and white characters. Ben is a 1972 american horror film about a young boy and his pet rat, ben. While traveling back and forth between the artifice and veracity of film she was able to underscore the impartiality necessary to accurately convey current events and what cinematic techniques could be manipulated to mold interpretation. Watch the clip titled harold edmond for the film rat film 2017. A film by theo anthony across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat film falls somewhere between the formers montagebased, essayistic method and the latters. Documentary follows harold edmond, who explains the places where you can find a rat. As the film proclaims, theres never been a rat problem in baltimore, its always been a people problem. This film would not succeed without brilliant characters, brilliant moments and brilliant editing, and this film has all three, to the point that its astonishing that this film isnt a work of complete fiction. And whatever you think of the rodents before this film, by the time it has finished, youll feel warmer towards them.
Sign up for the latest news and to win free tickets to events. Theo anthonys independent lens documentary rat film uses the rat to burrow into the dark, complicated history of baltimore. Actors dustin hoffman and nicole kidman, director sofia coppola, producer jason blum, cinematographer ed lachman and politicianenvironmentalist al gore received tribute awards. Dense but accessible, rat film is a vital document that refuses easy answers or classifications. Rat film is a piece that hums with meaning, history, and personality. Filmmaker theo anthony looks at the rat and the people who love them or.
Set inside a single room in folsom prison, three men from the outside participate in a fourday grouptherapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation. Casino you can either have the money and the hammer or you can walk outta here you cant have both duration. The film is more of a tonepoem, a shifting collage of mood and atmosphere, backlit by the seedyglamorous colored lights of coney island, the neighborhood in which the film takes place. Documentary a cinema guild release of a memory production.
No one in the film doubts that the rat is the same personpersonality that once was a man, but without his former appearance, he no longer is a person to any of them. Featuring an original score by dan deacon, rat film is an aesthetically radical and politically incisive achievement of the highest order. Click on any of the 2017 movie posters images for complete information about all 2017 movies in theaters, including trailers. Rat is a 2000 irishbritishamerican comedy film directed by steve barron and starring imelda staunton and pete postlethwaite.
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