What is "The Corporation"?
"The next Bowling for Columbine" (Globe and Mail)
"Documentary filmmaking aimed at the funny bone, not just the brain... like the best issue of Harpers magazine set to music" (CBC News online)
"A brilliantly argued essay which takes us on a scintillating journey to the heart of global capitalism" (International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam)
"A cogent, entertaining, even rabble rousing indictment of perhaps the most influential institutional model of our era" (Variety)
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The Corporation engages us in a darkly amusing account of the institution’s birth as a legal “person” whose prime directive is to produce ever-increasing profit for it’s shareholders regardless of the cost to anyone, or anything else. This pathological nature wasn’t always written in stone. 150 years ago a corporation was merely an organized way of doing business. Today it is is a global power.
Considering the odd legal fiction that deems a corporation a “person” in the eyes of the law, this feature documentary subject the corporation to standard psychiatric diagnostic criteria. What emerges is a disturbing diagnosis.
Self-interested, amoral, callous and deceitful, a corporation’s operational principles make it anti-social. It breaches social and legal standards to get its way even while it mimics the human qualities of empathy, caring and altruism. It suffers no guilt. Diagnosis: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath.
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Following its sold-out presentation at the VIFF where it was voted audience favourite, The Corporation returns for one week to a theatre near you. It sounds like a must-see and I thought I'd spread the word!
It starts this Friday, January 16, 2004 in Vancouver at the Tinseltown & The Ridge (one week only).
VENUES AND TIMES
Vancouver:
Tinseltown Cinemas
88 West Pender, 3rd Floor
(604) 806-0799
Ridge Theatre
3131 Arbutus St. (at 16th Ave.)
(604) 738-6311
Nightly at 7:30pm
Special mid-week matinee Wednesday at 1:30pm
Weekend matinees Saturday & Sunday at 4:00pm
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Toronto:
Bloor Cinema
506 Bloor Street West (at Bathurst)
(416) 516-2330
Fri Jan 16: 4:30 and 7:30
Sat Jan 17: 6:30 and 9:30
Sun Jan 18: 4:30 and 7:30
Mon Jan 19: 9:00 only
Tues Jan 20: 9:15 only
Wed Jan 21 and Thurs Jan 22: 9:00 only
Canada Square
2190 Yonge Street (Concourse Level), just south of Eglinton
(416) 646-0444
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Go to www.thecorporation.com for the complete list and much more information about the film.
