Death of a President December 7, 2006

DECEMBER 8 - 14 (ONE WEEK)
Too hot to play in the multiplex - A Guild Cinema Premiere!

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT (4:30, 6:30, 8:30)
Dir. Gabriel Range - 2006 - 93m - UK
Winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the Toronto Film Festival, DEATH OF A PRESIDENT is conceived as a fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on another monstrous and cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The “documentary” combines archival footage and carefully composed interviews as it refashions the event into a riveting story, following the FBI’s hunt for the assassin. Director Gabriel Range previously used the device of a “retrospective documentary” in his celebrated 2003 film, THE DAY BRITAIN STOPPED, about a chain of events that led to a breakdown of the country’s transport system and nearly a hundred fatalities. Both of these films have been acclaimed for the technical virtuosity with which they combine archival footage and filmed scenes to create disturbingly real visions of catastrophes. DEATH OF A PRESIDENT was honored by The International Critics Prize Jury (FIPRESCI) at Toronto for “the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth,” and the Guild Cinema is excited to have been chosen to present its Albuquerque premiere.

Official Website: http://guildcinema.com