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November 18 - November 18, 2009

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2150 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94110
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the Water Film Series: Up the Yangtze Up The Yangtze
Admission is Free $5 suggested donation for popcorn and beer Doors open at 6:30 Film at 7:00 (rescheduled from October 26th when Workspace was flooded) If the title "Up the Yangtze!" suggests "up a creek!," it's no coincidence. China's Three Gorges Dam is considered by many experts to be a full-steam-ahead eco-disaster, but (director)Yung Chang's gorgeous meditation is more concerned with the project's collateral human damage: old farmers evicted, young people in servitude to Western tourists, all brought about by an endeavor whose collective weight may ultimately tilt the Earth's axis. A gloriously cinematic doc of epic, poetic sadness, "Yangtze" should be a hit on the specialized circuit and could break out, thanks to its embrace of irony rather than righteous indignation. John Anderson, Variety