Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft Wy
510.642.0808
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Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink
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Tuesday Jan 22, 2008 (7:30pm)
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$9.50
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The Pacific Film Archive's intriguing Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Recent Experimental Documentaries series gets a bovine boost from Milk in the Land, an investigation that leaves no cow unturned. The inventively historicized documentary unearths the sundry political, moral, and scientific platforms that got milk to its current post as beleaguered alpha beverage. Directors Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum also present several opposing views as to whether it "does a body good," cleverly exploiting the symbolic value of a fluid that's as essentially American as the oil flowing through There Will Be Blood's veins.
