ZVS Media Posts Tagged ‘agnes-varnum’
Benefit Screening: THE HAPPY POET
Event Date(s) / Time: Thu, 3 Jun, 2010 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM Details: Bill, an out-of-work poet, puts his heart, soul, and last few dollars into starting an all-organic, mostly-vegetarian food stand. New friend Donnie promotes the business and helps Bill pursue Agnes, a poetry-lover who frequents the stand.
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Benefit Screening: THE HAPPY POET
Essential Cinema: SIDDHARTHA
Event Date(s) / Time: Sat, 31 Jul, 2010 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Details: Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s illuminating novel Siddhartha was mandatory reading for those on an Eastern spiritual path in the 1960s. Director Conrad Rooks, scion of the Avon Cosmetics family, perhaps saw something of his own quest for meaning in the life of Siddhartha, Hesse’s protagonist who lived in the time of Buddha’s own journey toward enlightenment.
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Essential Cinema: SIDDHARTHA
Essential Cinema: KILLER OF SHEEP
Event Date(s) / Time: Sat, 3 Jul, 2010 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Details: Charles Burnett has given the world powerful stories and images from African-American life that would be ignored by more exploitative directors. In KILLER OF SHEEP Stan is a family man and a sensitive man being destroyed by his dehumanizing work in a slaughterhouse.
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Essential Cinema: KILLER OF SHEEP
Essential Cinema: ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
Event Date(s) / Time: Sat, 26 Jun, 2010 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Details: This beautifully restored, uncut, and uncensored print of Visconti’s masterpiece tells the powerful story of the Parondi family of five boys and their mother, Rosaria. Leaving a hopeless life behind in southern Italy, the matriarch takes four sons to Milan in search of a better life with the fifth son who has already found a tiny bit of financial security. At first, through the sheer love and will power of the mother, the four boys seem to settle into life in the big city, but soon urban temptations and fiery passions threaten to split them all apart.
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Essential Cinema: ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
Essential Cinema: VILLAGE OF DREAMS
Event Date(s) / Time: Sat, 12 Jun, 2010 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Details: In a postwar Japanese village, identical twin boys lead an idyllic life of fishing, observing nature, and playing pranks on their elders. They are already interested in art, something they will pursue successfully in later life. In what has been called “a hymn to childhood,” this film explores “the rich details of family life, the unintentional cruelty of youth, the mysteriously beautiful nature that envelops them, the strong emotional bond between the twins, and the fierce fights they enter into at the drop of a hat.” Click on More Information below for additional film info & tickets
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Essential Cinema: VILLAGE OF DREAMS
