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.
Robert Freeman will speak at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in a lecture titled Remove The Cloak Of Secrecy! Police Transparency Now!. Freeman will speak about a law that enables police departments to refuse to disclose records and videos that … 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
Join us for a candidate forum focusing on strategies for transitioning our area to a green economy, as we mitigate and adapt to climate change. Candidates running for public offices around Monroe County will discuss their vision for our sustainable … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, U.S. 1932, 112 min., 35mm). MGM publicity boasted "more stars than there are in the heavens" and with Grand Hotel they proved it. At a time when it was customary to have … 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.
The Flying Squirrel will host an International panel discussion titled To Change Everything: The Promise of Anarchism Climate change, economic crisis, unrest from Baltimore to Brazil: the prevailing order is unsustainable in every way. Today even the most entrenched authorities … 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 Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, Canada 1970, 63 min., 35mm). Surreal even by Cronenberg's standards, this early feature serves as a fascinating catalog of obsessions that would soon become the King of Body Horror's stock-in-trade: … Continue reading