These are two completely different films with entirely different messages but both are worth your time.

Farmageddon

Nov 04 – Nov 06  (Kristin Canty, 2010, USA, Bluray, 86 min) http://nwfilmforum.org/

Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. This film tells the story of  small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, Farmageddon highlights the urgency of food freedom, encouraging farmers and consumers alike to take action to preserve individuals’ rights to access food of their choice and farmers’ rights to produce these foods safely and free from unreasonably burdensome regulations.

The LA Times called it, “An eye-popping wake-up call revealing how the USDA and FDA have increasingly waged war on America’s small farmers even when they can prove they are contributing healthful products to our food supply.

The Bride Wore Black

Jeanne Moreau

Directed by Francois Truffaut

In François Truffaut’s 1968 “The Bride Wore Black,” which begins a New York run this week and will then play in many other cities. Truffaut is sometimes viewed as a relative lightweight among the company of big-name ’60s and ’70s European directors, and there’s no doubt his work is uneven. What begins as a French cinephile’s almost obsessive tribute to Alfred Hitchcock becomes progressively weirder and wittier. Jeanne Moreau as the ultimate femme fatale heroine in this knife-twisting tale of murderous revenge and unexpected romance, “The Bride Wore Black” is well worth rediscovering.

November 4, 2011
Film Forum
New York, NY

November 25 – December 1, 2011
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA

December 9 – 14, 2011
Pacific Cinematheque
Vancouver, Canada

December 10, 2011
Pacific Film Archives
Berkeley, CA

January 1, 2012
Cinema Arts Centre
Huntington, NY

February 3, 2012
Webster University Film Series
St. Louis, MO

February 9, 2012
Union
Milwaukee, WI

February 17 – 19, 2012
Jacob Burns Film Center
Pleasantville, NY

March 16 & 18, 2012
Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, TX