The Dryden will screen How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, U.S. 1941, 119 min., 35mm). This nostalgic, profoundly touching—but also unashamedly political—drama traces the lives of the Morgan clan, a hardworking Welsh proletarian family determined to stay together as … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Rio Grande (John Ford, U.S. 1950, 105 min., 35mm). The third in John Ford's now recognized Cavalry Trilogy, Rio Grande stations Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke (John Wayne) on the expansive Texas frontier, charged with defending a … Continue reading
The Cinemark Tinseltown USA will screen The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, Italy / Spain / West Germany / U.S. 1966, 161 min.)
The Little will screen Radical Grace (Rebecca Parrish, U.S. / Italy 2015, 86 min.) as part of the Women's History Month: Honoring Women In Public Service series. "Radical Grace" follows three feminist nuns in the Catholic church as they face … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen The Spy in Black (Michael Powell, U.K. 1939, 77 min., 35mm). In this tense thriller set in World War I, Captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt) is ordered to take his U-boat to Northern Scotland, where he must … Continue reading
As part of the Films, Facts and Fallacies About Mental Health series is a screening of Dad's in Heaven with Nixon (Tom Murray, U.S. 2010, 86 min.) The Documentary by Emmy-Award winning writer Tom Murray, tells the tale of his … Continue reading
At today's Books Sandwiched In, Mary Jane Curry will review My life on the road by Gloria Steinem.
The Dryden will screen Native Land (Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand, U.S. 1942, 89 min., 35mm). Nearly four years in the making, filmmaker Leo Hurwitz and photographer Paul Strand's searing indictment of anti-labor practices was completed shortly after the attack on … Continue reading
The Cinemark Tinseltown USA will screen The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, Italy / Spain / West Germany / U.S. 1966, 161 min.)
Teresa Ludwig will lead a workshop titled Connecting the Pieces: The Emotional Experience of Illness and Pain at the Mental Health Association. This workshop focuses on the impact of chronic pain on thoughts, behaviors and emotions. You will learn about: … Continue reading
In the Hawkins-Carlson Room of the Rush Rhees Library on the UofR Campus is a Public Lecture by Carol J. Adams, author of The sexual politics of meat : a feminist-vegetarian critical theory. The Sexual Politics of Meat explores a … Continue reading
The Cinemark Tinseltown USA will screen The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, Italy / Spain / West Germany / U.S. 1966, 161 min.)
The Dryden will screen Trois couleurs: Blanc (Three Colors: White, Krzysztof Kieslowski, France/Poland/Switzerland 1994, 91 min., 35mm, Polish and French w/subtitles). Clever plot twists color the desolate landscapes in the second installment of Kieslowski's trilogy, as the theme of equality … Continue reading