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Monday,
Nov. 9
6:30 pm
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F.R.E.E. FILM FORUM
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In Prison My Whole Life
Dir. Mark Evans, 2008, 90 min.
In Prison My Whole Life is about a man: a father, a son, an inspiration and a pariah – who currently faces his twenty-fifth year on Death Row. His name is Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black Panther and radical journalist who was arrested for the murder of a police officer in Philadelphia in 1981. He claimed he was innocent but was sentenced to death and has been awaiting execution ever since.
Panel discussion to follow. Speakers TBA.
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Thursday,
Nov. 12
7:30 pm
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NEW DOCUMENTARIES IN BLOOM
With Livia Bloom
Good Hair
Dir. Jeff Stilson, 2009, 95 min.
Good Hair seeks to explore some of the aspects of African American hair and hair care. According to Chris Rock, he was prompted to produce the movie after his 5-year old daughter, Lola, asked him, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” During his quest for knowledge, Chris Rock delves into the $9 billion black hair industry, and visits such places as beauty salons, barbershops, conventions, scientific laboratories (to learn the science behind chemical relaxers that straighten hair), and India, where many of the hair weaves worn by African American women are from..
Followed by audience discussion led by producer/writer Nelson George |
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Friday,
Nov. 13
7:30 pm
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NEW DOCUMENTARIES IN BLOOM
With Livia Bloom
Good Hair
Dir. Jeff Stilson, 2009, 95 min.
Good Hair seeks to explore some of the aspects of African American hair and hair care. According to Chris Rock, he was prompted to produce the movie after his 5-year old daughter, Lola, asked him, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” During his quest for knowledge, Chris Rock delves into the $9 billion black hair industry, and visits such places as beauty salons, barbershops, conventions, scientific laboratories (to learn the science behind chemical relaxers that straighten hair), and India, where many of the hair weaves worn by African American women are from.
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Saturday,
Nov. 14
2 pm
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FILM CLUB PRESENTS Website>
Curated by Mariah Balaban
The main theater is sold out for My Dinner With Andre. More tickets may be available at the box office day of the show, on a first come, first serve basis. Suggested donation tickets will be available for the downstairs simulcast of the film and post screening conversation. Cocktail reception open to all.
My Dinner with Andre
Dir. Louis Malle, 1981, 110 min.
A bold experiment in film narrative that paid off in critical raves and cult status, Louis Malle’s drama consists almost entirely of the dinner conversation of two real-life friends. More or less playing themselves, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn wrote their own dialogue, which ranges in subject from the New York theater world to rain forests, and in tone from hilarious to heartbreaking.
Followed by a conversation with Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, and Bob Balaban and a cocktail reception.
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THE “NEW” NEW DEAL
Nov. 14th – 20th
Curated by Jason Fox
Wall Street! The Federal Stimulus! Health Care! It has been many generations since the American public has so candidly asked itself, “what, and where exactly, is the public interest?” The “New” New Deal examines that ever-shifting boundary between “the public” and “the private” in American life with films focusing on the digital age, labor organizing, and the outsourcing of national war, alongside classic films funded by that last great model of one American social ideal, The New Deal. |
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Saturday,
Nov. 14,
7:30 pm
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THE “NEW” NEW DEAL
Curated by Jason Fox
God is My Safest Bunker
Dir. Lee Wang, 2008, 42 min.
More than 30,000 low-wage workers from Southeast Asia work for American military contractors in Iraq, cleaning toilets, serving food and building barracks. Through the stories of three Filipino workers and their families, Wang’s probing documentary investigates the conditions – both domestic and global – which have forced economic migration into the Iraqi war zone, and how they are understood as lived experience. Panel Discussion. Speakers tba.
Q&A with Director Lee Wang
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Sunday,
Nov. 15
7:00 pm
9:00 pm |
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KEELING’S CARRIBEAN SHOWCASE
Curated by Keeling Beckford of Keeling’s Reggae Music and Videos>
Pressure
Horace Ove, 1975, 120 min.
Hailed as Britain’s first black feature film, Pressure is a hard-hitting and honest document of the struggle and disenchantment faced by British-born black youths. Set in 1970s London, it tells the story of Tony, son of West Indian immigrants who find himself torn between his parent’s church-going conformity and his brother’s Black Power militancy. In his own un-heroic, honest way Tony goes along with his families aspirations for him.
Portraits of Jamaican Music
Pierre Marc Simonin, 2003, 52 min.
Limiting Jamaican music to just reggae would be most unfair. Within a forty year period jamaicans have invented mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, and hardcore dancehall (sometimes known in the west as ragga). Take a visual trip down memory lane and relive several great episodes with Johnny Moore and The Skatalites, Toots and the Maytals, and Bunny Wailer.
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