Requiem For The American Dream (USA)  

The pounding audio and overly familiar archival footage—from the Great Depression to King’s March on Washington—don’t actually add that much to Noam Chomsky’s unblinking and clearly articulated rundown, filmed over a period of four years. But this brief Requiem is a concentrated, if queasy-making, primer on what the hell happened to the USA. Chomsky makes the case that concentration of wealth was embedded in the constitution by principal framer James Madison, and that democracy would have to be pushed aside to “protect the minority of the opulent”, in whose hands ultimate power must always reside. Well, it sure worked out that way.

Vancity, October 6 (8 p.m.) and 9 (2:45 p.m.)