Who Killed the Electric Car?
I can't believe I cried over a car
Less than 10 years ago, the electric car looked like the coming thing. General Motors had an attractive electric car on the road, and it seemed inevitable that these cars would get better, less expensive and more practical as time went on. California, responding to a pollution crisis, had a law on the books requiring that 2 percent of the state's vehicles be emissions free by 1998 and 10 percent by 2003. Everything was in place -- and then the electric car disappeared.
"Who Killed the Electric Car?" is a balanced examination of the reasons for the electric car's disappearance, reasons that include corporate collusion and greed, governmental spinelessness and oil company propaganda -- but also consumer indifference and the limitations of the vehicles themselves. Rather than try to devise a conspiracy theory that lays the blame on one party's doorstep, director Chris Paine examines the issue from a number of sides. He makes a virtue of the issue's complexity, by structuring the film as though it were a murder mystery with a host of suspects. In fact, he gives enough evidence for the viewer to come away with an understanding of the situation that's different from his own. (M. LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle)
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Sun November 5, 2006, 7:00 & 9:00, The Film Studies Theater in ATLAS 102
USA, 2006, in English, Color, 92 min, Rated PG
Tickets
10 films for $60 with punch card
$9 general admission.
$7 w/UCB student ID,
$7 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
Free on your birthday! CU Cinema Studies students get in free.
Parking
Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the
Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters
along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.
RTD Bus
Park elsewhere and catch the HOP to campus
International Film Series
(Originally called The University Film Commission)
Established 1941 by James Sandoe.
First Person Cinema
(Originally called The Experimental Cinema Group)
Established 1955 by Carla Selby, Gladney Oakley, Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage.
C.U. Film Program
(AKA The Rocky Mountain Film Center)
First offered degrees in filmmaking and critical studies in 1989 under the guidance of Virgil
Grillo.
Celebrating Stan
Created by Suranjan Ganguly in 2003.
C.U. Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
Established 2017 by Chair Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz.