 Herb & Dorothy
Directed by Megumi Sasaki/USA/2009.
You don't have to be a Rockefeller to collect art.
“Herb & Dorothy” tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy's paycheck alone, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists.
Friday, Oct. 9, Saturday, Oct. 10 and Sunday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m.
Julia
Directed by Erick Zonka/USA/2009. With Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate Del Castillo, Aiden Gould
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton plays the 40-year-old alcoholic Julia, a manipulative, unreliable, compulsive liar, that is strung out beneath her still flamboyant exterior. Between shots of vodka and one-night stands, Julia gets by on nickel-and-dime jobs. Increasingly lonely, the only consideration she receives comes from her friend Mitch, who tries to help her. But she shrugs him off, as her alcohol-induced confusion daily reinforces her sense that life has dealt her a losing hand and that she is not to blame for the mess she has made of it.
Friday, Oct. 9, Saturday, Oct. 10 and Sunday, Oct. 11 at 9 p.m.
Cinema Green Series
Waters Journey - Everglades: Restoring Hope
Documentary directed by Wes Skiles/USA/56 mins.
The Florida Everglades is a land of beauty and diversity. Over the past century, everything that has been done to the Everglades was done in the name of progress. However, endless draining and development of what was once part of a vast floodplain has pushed the Everglades to the brink of collapse. Join a team of scientists and explorers as they plunge into the heart of the Everglades to learn about what has happened to this once great place and what's being done to restore and protect it.
Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m.
Global Lens Series
My Time Will Come (Cuando me toque a mi)
Directed by Víctor Arregui /Equador/2008/90mins.
A predawn murder sets in motion a series of interlocking tragedies that eventually find their way to the city morgue’s brooding Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated from the world around him, Arturo develops an oddly intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases, gradually forcing him to confront his connection to the living, and the dead. Adapted from the novel “De Que Nada Se Sabe,” director Víctor Arregui’s serpentine tale is a dark but sympathetic portrait of one man’s solitude, set against a richly textured rendering of Quito, Ecuador's capital city. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Wedensday, Oct. 14 at 8:30 p.m.
Vu Par Varda Series
Le Bonheur (Happiness)
Directed by Agnes Varda/France/1965/79 min. With Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-Françoise Boyer
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), a young husband and father, François (Jean-Claude Drouot), finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, Le bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world. In French with English subtitles.
Thursday, Oct. 15 at 8:30 p.m.
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