ZVS Media Posts Tagged ‘alamo-downtown’
Essential Cinema: SOUTH: ERNEST SHACKLETON AND THE ENDURANCE EXPEDITION
Event Date(s) / Time: Sat, 7 Aug, 2010 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Details: Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton set sail on the Endurance in August 1914.
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Essential Cinema: SOUTH: ERNEST SHACKLETON AND THE ENDURANCE EXPEDITION
Essential Cinema: ARAYA
Event Date(s) / Time: Sat, 24 Jul, 2010 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Details: A lyrical feature documentary in the visual tradition of MAN OF ARAN and LA TERRA TREMA, Benacerraf’s stunning ARAYA had been all but forgotten until rescued and restored by Milestone.
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Essential Cinema: ARAYA
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: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
Event Date(s) / Time: Sat, 19 Jun, 2010 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Details: Two families living on a remote island off the coast of Scotland are united by friendship and the budding romance between a young man and woman. However, the brother of the woman believes there is no future for him on the island. His rebellious attitude brings consternation to the two families, and he must participate in an ancient tradition to settle the argument
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Essential Cinema: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
