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Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992)
Nov 12th
Ten women, most of them in Vancouver or Toronto, talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men’s responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, “Forbidden Love”: Laura leaves her hick town and heads for the city, where she meets Mitch in a bar. Sparks fly, and so do laughter and joy. Ann Bannon, one of the writers of those paperback novels about forbidden love, talks about the genre.
Roger & Me (1989)
Nov 12th
A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
Rattle and Hum (1988)
Nov 12th
This film documents the 1987 North American tour of the great rock band, U2. Fresh with their success of their best selling album, The Joshua Tree, the band plays monster gigs. Along the way, the band takes the opportunity in indulge in some special musical activities like playing with BB King and performing “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking” with a famous church choir. All the while, concert footage of the band’s biggest hits on tour is featured while Bono speaks his mind on the problems of his homeland.
Hotel Terminus (1988)
Nov 12th
A documentary of the prozess against Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and about his life after the war.
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, aka
Nov 12th
Feature-length documentary film featuring real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person “narrative” by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Nov 12th
Donald Pleasance and Nancy Allen share narration duties on this anthology that looks at all of the gory sequences from major films, such as the shower scene from “Psycho” and the midnight swim from “Jaws”. Blood and gore abound making the film definitely not for the squeamish.
Before Stonewall (1984)
Nov 12th
New York City’s Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Nov 12th
This movie was designed to have no plot. Meaning is to be created by the viewer, and only the viewer can give value to the images and music. That said, there is a central idea behind the movie, and according to the director it is this: The greatest event in the history of mankind has occurred recently, and has been largely missed by both the media and academia. Beyond the headlines and every day crises of international events, a deeper shift in human affairs has occurred: Humanity no longer exists in the natural world, we are no longer connected to it. It is not that we are now users of technology, but rather that we exist within technology, we are part of it and it is part of us. The natural world now exists only to support the artificial one in which we live.
Nuit Et Brouillard (1955)
Feb 26th
One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage with black and white newsreels, footage shot by the victorious allies, and stills, to tell the story not only of the camps, but to portray the horror of man’s brutal inhumanity.
