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Tuesday, May 9
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
You Can Checkout Any Time You Like,
But You Can Never Leave
Trailer
US Release Date - possible theatrical one this year, but either way will be aired on PBS' American Experience in the '07
There aren't that many notorious episodes of mass suicide in the world's history. One has to stretch to conjure up Masada, Heaven's Gate, and whatever that was in Uganda. But there's one event that stands above the rest, and has clouded the American conscience ever since that mos horrible November day back in the '78: the Jonestown massacre. What could possibly have happened for a reverend to convince 913 members of his flock, including 276 children, to take their own lives in the secluded jungles of Guyana? This unbiased, straightforward, and completely enrapturing documentary, culled from countless interviews of survivors, ex-members and other key figures, and an unbelievable amount of candid audio and video footage, tells the tale that needed to be taled. I can't believe it took this long for a documentary to be produced about one of America's darkest and mos fascinating chapters, but butter nate than lever, as I'd say! I've hactually been waiting for a doc heggszactly like this ever since my adolescence, when my non-fiction obsessed sister filled my head with scary stories about Jim Jones' purple Kool-Aid acid test. But the real question is, why only 85 minutes? There's so much to hexlpore, in particular, the aftermath, so why not 850 minutes? U MUSS see this, or I'll round up 913 people yer related to and force them to watch, on A-B repeat, that scene in Armed & Dangerous where Eugene Levy is mixing bidness with leather
Recommended for those who like: the January 1962 issue of Esquire, Guyana Airways, and the Polyphonic Spree
Possible Porno Name: Bonetown: Bangin Your Wife While On Meth From Her Poophole To Her Temple
Unsatisfied with this? Netflix Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst [trailer]
Apt MPupil3: Jim Jones' 'we must die with some dignity' speech [various formats here] AND the Peoples Temple Choir '73 LP He's Able [12 d's here], AND while yer at it, anything by the Brian Jonestown Massacre [d-lode em all here]
IMDb Sweeney: DUDE, they HAVE to re-release the made-for-TV movie called Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, starring Powers Boothe as JJ, Ned Beatty, Brad Dourif, Diane Ladd, Randy Quaid, AND LeVar Burton. And DUDE, if they ever decide to make a big budget fiasco version of the whole shabang, Ciarán Hinds HAS to play JJ
Jonesin For Mo Jonestown: Heducate yo self here
Did You No: That Guyana and French Guiana isn't the same Geeyanah? I didn't
TFF Thighspotting: a former Peoples Temple member, who was luckily sent back to California by Jones two months before he lost his wife and child at the massacre
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): Breast In Show, and Vagina In Show!
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