Jim Kraus, and Malik Evans will review Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era that Shaped his Masterpiece by Andrew Levy as part of the Books Sandwiched In series.
The Gandhi Institute will screen The Economics of Happiness (Steven Gorelick, Helena Norberg-Hodge, John Page, U.S., Nicaragua, France, Germany, U.K., Australia, India, Thailand, Japan, China 2011, 67 min.) The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen the fascinating biopic The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt, U.S. 2015, 106 min.) The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, U.S. 1915, 189 min., 35mm) with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli. One hundred years ago, an American film, made at a time when European films dominated international … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, U.S. 2015, 102 min.) A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.