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Thursday, June 14, 7;30pm
Friday & Saturday, June 15 - 16, 5:30pm & 8pm
Sunday, June 17, 2pm
Marley
Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Marley is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best. From Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day In September, The Last King of Scotland) comes the story of a towering figure of musical history, whose music and message has transcended different cultures, languages and creeds to resonate around the world today as powerfully as when he was alive. Director: Kevin Macdonald 2012 USA/UK 144min. PG-13 35mm |
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Copresented by the
 Thursday, June 21, 7:30pm
Sunday, June 24, 2pm*Panel discussion after the film
Urbanized
Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world's population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, civic engagement, economic development, and environmental policy are fast becoming universal concerns. Yet much of the dialogue on these issues is disconnected from the public domain. Who is allowed to shape our cities, and how do they do it? Unlike many other fields of design, cities aren't created by any one specialist or expert. There are many contributors to urban change, including ordinary citizens who can have a great impact improving the cities in which they live. By exploring a diverse range of urban design projects around the world, Urbanized frames a global discussion on the future of cities. Director: Gary Hustwit 2011 USA/UK 85min. NR digital
*Panel Discussion immediately following the Sunday screening of Urbanized:
Milestones vs. Millstones:
Urban planning experts discuss Oklahoma City's developing urban environment
 Friday, June 22, 5:30pm
Surviving Progress
Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society? Or too much of a good thing? Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese, this provocative documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world, guiding us through a sweeping but detailed survey of the major "progress traps" facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment. Featuring powerful arguments from such visionaries as Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking, Craig Venter, Robert Wright, Michael Hudson, and Ronald Wright, this enlightening and visually spectacular film invites us to contemplate the progress traps that destroyed past civilizations and that lie treacherously embedded in our own. Directors: Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks 2011 Canada 86min. NR 35mm
 Friday, June 22, 8pm
Battle For Brooklyn
Live Skype Q&A with director Michael Galinsky after the film!
Battle for Brooklyn is an intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn's historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way for the polarizing Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets. The film focuses on graphic designer Daniel Goldstein whose apartment sits at what would be center court of the new arena. A reluctant activist, Daniel is dragged into the fight because he can't accept that the government should use the power of Eminent Domain to take his new apartment and hand it off to a private developer. The film is a universal tale of one man under pressure, and how far he will go to fight for his home and what he believes in. Director: Michael Galinsky 2011 USA 93min. NR digital
 Saturday, June 23, 5:30pm
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
It began as a housing marvel. Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, "the poor man's penthouse." Two decades later, it ended in rubble - its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called "the death of modernism." The footage and images of its implosion have helped to perpetuate a myth of failure, a failure that has been used to critique Modernist architecture, attack public assistance programs, and stigmatize public housing residents. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth seeks to set the historical record straight: to examine the interests involved in Pruitt-Igoe's creation, to re-evaluate the rumors and the stigma, to implode the myth. Director: Chad Freidrichs 2011 USA 83min. NR digital
Stella Artois Intermission
following the screening of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, 7-8pm
FREE BEER!
 Saturday, June 23, 8pm
The City Dark
The City Dark chronicles the disappearance of darkness. The film follows filmmaker (and amateur astronomer) Ian Cheney, who moves to New York City from Maine and discovers an urban sky almost completely devoid of stars. Posing a deceptively simple question-"What do we lose, when we lose the night?"-the film leads viewers on a quest to understand how light pollution affects people and the planet. In six chapters weaving together cutting-edge science with personal, meditative sequences reflecting on the human relationship to the sky, The City Dark shines new light on the meaning of the dark. Director: Ian Cheney 2011 USA 84min. NR digital |
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Friday & Saturday, June 29 - 30, 5:30pm & 8pm
Sunday, July 1, 2pm
The Well Digger's Daughter Tuesday, July 10, 7:30pm
French Cinema Week
The Painting Wednesday, July 11, 7:30pm French Cinema Week
Goodbye First Love Thursday, July 12, 7:30pm
French Cinema Week
Polisse Friday, July 13, 5:30pm
French Cinema Week
Americano Friday, July 13, 8pm
French Cinema Week
Tales of the Night Saturday, July 14, 2pm
French Cinema Week
The Fairy Saturday, July 14, 5:30pm
French Cinema Week
Nobody Else But You Saturday, July 14, 8pm
French Cinema Week
Children of Paradise Sunday, July 15, 2pm
French Cinema Week |
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