ArtRage: The Norton Putter Gallery

505 Hawley Avenue Syracuse, NY

Archive for October, 2009

SaturdaySCREENINGS – HARLAN COUNTY USA (1976)

December 12, 20098:00 pmto10:00 pm

Directed by Barbara Koppel

This documentary recounts a 1974 strike of Kentucky coal  mine workers.; a searing expose of the personal struggles of families mired in shocking poverty and  hazardous working conditions and exploited by mining companies. Oscar:  Best Documentary Oscar. Selected for the National Film Registry.

“One of the finest documentaries ever made” -ColeSmithey.com

$5 suggested donation
505 Hawley Avenue (at N. Crouse & Hawley)
ArtRage is handicapped accessible
Off street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street

SaturdaySCREENINGS – EL NORTE (1983)

December 19, 20098:00 pmto10:00 pm

In our land, we have no home… Here, we are not welcome.

Directed by Gregory Nava

Escaping a tyrannical Guatemalan political regime, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando, in their first film roles, are two indigenous youths who flee Guatemala in the early 1980s due to ethnic and political persecution. They risk all to come to America (El Norte), only to find it is not the “promised land” they envisioned.

El Norte received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1985, the first American independent film to be so honored. In 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

“Lyrical…the definitive portrait of Latin-American workers in the United States” - filmcritic.com
“A great movie… romantic and poetic” - Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

$5 suggested donation
505 Hawley Avenue (at N. Crouse & Hawley)
ArtRage is handicapped accessible
Off street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street