Tonight at 8 p.m., the Dryden will screen California Company Town (Lee Anne Schmitt, U.S. 2008, 76 min., 16mm).

This strikingly shot essay film casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the industries that created them—onetime boomtowns now haunted by the twilight of the American promise.

[source: Dryden website, 2015-Apr-13]