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The Garden

1990, Movie, NR, 90 mins

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A modernist theodicy by British avant-garde director Derek Jarman, who employs New Testament imagery to allegorize the persecution of homosexuals and the decimation of the gay community by AIDS. Shot largely in Jarman's own seaside garden, this non-narrative film uses inexpensive but strikingly effective lab techniques to create a distinctive, deliberately artificial look--one frequently copied in music videos, e.g., REM's "Losing My Religion" and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box... read more leave a comment
The feature trailer for The Garden. In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, hundreds of mostly Mexican-American families came together and turned a blighted corner of South Central Los Angeles into a 14 acre urban oasis with enough fruit and vegetables to feed hundreds of families. But now bulldozers are poised to demolish their garden and the farmers will not give up without a fight.
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Length: 02:24
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The trailer for Scott Hamilton Kennedy s The Garden, nominated for an Oscar for best documentary this year. Set for a theatrical release this Spring, the film will hit DVD this summer. The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers: Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market
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Length: 02:54
Posted: 7/23/2009
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THE GARDEN is an engaging and powerful look at the famous political and social battle over the largest community garden in the US (located in South Central Los Angeles). A follow-up to Kennedy s award-winning documentary OT: OUR TOWN, the film shows how the politics of power and greed (backroom deals, land developing, green politics, money) tragically intersect with working class families who rely on this communal garden for their livelihood. Equal parts THE WIRE and HARLAN COUNTY USA, THE GARDEN exposes the fault lines in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and most vulnerable among us. Kenneth Turan of the LA Times said: It s tempting to call The Garden a story of innocence and experience, of evil corrupting paradise, but that would be doing a disservice to the fascinating complexities of a classic Los Angeles conflict and an excellent documentary that does them full justice.
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THE GARDEN is a powerful look at the famous political and social battle over the largest community garden in the U.S (located in South Central Los Angeles).
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Length: 02:23
Posted: 4/10/2009
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Year: 1990
Rated NR

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Cast
Tilda Swinton: Madonna
Johnny Mills: Lover
Kevin Collins: Lover
Pete Lee-Wilson: Devil
Spencer Leigh: Mary Magdalene--Adam
Jody Graber: Young Boy

 

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