United in Anger now playing at the Quad Cinema, NYC

NOW PLAYING:

UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP [NR]

Friday, July 6 - Thursday, July 12, 2012
Showtimes 1:00 3:00 5:30 7:40 10:00
 
QUAD Cinimas
34 West 13th Street, NYC

SPECIAL TREAT: PRODUCER JIM HUBBARD & MEMBERS OF ACT UP WILL BE PRESENT FOR Q&A'S AFTER THE FOLLOWING 7:40 PM SHOWS.

JIM HUBBARD -----JULY 6, 7, 8, 10
DEB LEVINE --------JULY 9
ANN NORTHROP --JULY 10
RON GOLDBERG---JULY 12

UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage that puts the audience on the ground with the activists and the remarkably insightful interviews from the ACT UP Oral History Project to explore ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from a grassroots perspective – how a small group of men and women of all races and classes, came together to change the world and save each other’s lives.

The film takes the viewer through the planning and execution of a half dozen exhilarating major actions including Seize Control of the FDA, Stop the Church, and Day of Desperation, with a timeline of many of the other zaps and actions that forced the U.S. government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS crisis. UNITED IN ANGER reveals the group’s complex culture – meetings, affinity groups, and approaches to civil disobedience mingle with profound grief, sexiness, and the incredible energy of ACT UP. (Running time 1:33) Language: English

Reviews:

"If the AIDS crisis has crested, it's due in large part to the radical advocacy group so intelligently portrayed in United in Anger: A History of ACT UP..." Read review here

"This time-toggling chronicle benefits from its impressively articulate talking heads, looking back not just on the coalition's most infamous guerrilla protests...but also on the members' much-younger selves." Read review here

"As scrappy and passionate as the actions it documents, United in Anger delivers a living tribute to a movement spawned by death and despair..." Read review here

  

"This is the story my generation has been waiting to see." Read review here

  

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