October 17, 2009 - 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Directed by Hal Ashby Screenplay Jerzy Kosinski, Peter Sellers, Shirley Maclaine, Melvyn Douglas A simple-minded gardener learns everything he knows from TV and manages to become a revered insider among DC political elite. Classic acclaimed satire on our societal values. Oscar, Best Supportig Actor (Douglas),…
October 14, 2009 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
A film by Robert Greenwald Rethink Afghanistan, Brave New Films’ ground-breaking new documentary, features interviews with experts ranging from former CIA officers, NGO officials, Afghan MPs to Afghan women’s rights activists. The film has been released in parts online. See it on the “big” screen…
October 10, 2009 - 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Directed by Judy Irving This poignant documentary Celebrates urban wildness — human and avian — and the wondrous connection between parrot antics and our behavior. A homeless musician reinvents himself through friendship with a flock of wild green and red parrots in San Francisco. “Amusing,…
October 7, 2009 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
“people dissect and debate what is arguably the most loaded word in our history” Thea St.Omer will host a screening of her documentary film, Nigger at ArtRage. Compiled from over a hundred interviews Nigger screened as a work-in-progress at New York University and at Syracuse University…
October 3, 2009 - 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Directed by Tim Robbins Art is never dangerous — unless it tells the truth Even as labor strikes erupt across Depression-era-era America, New York City launches its own cultural revolution. Orson Welles, Diego Rivera, John Houseman, and other young artists tackle government attempts to squelch…
September 26, 2009 - 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
SaturdaySCREENINGS GARBAGE WARRIOR (2007) Oliver Hodge’s award-winning documentary chronicles the life and work of visionary Michael Reynolds, the radical architect-engineer who has been designing and building self-sustaining, eco-friendly homes out of disposable materials for 30 years. Battling opposition from bureaucrats, politicians and big business, Reynolds…
September 22, 2009 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
..a photo presentation and discussion with Ann Tiffany and Jessica Maxwell Jessica Maxwell and Ann Tiffany (both members of the Syracuse Peace Council) returned in early August from a delegation to Palestine and Israel. Spending most of their time in Jerusalem and the Hebron area…
September 19, 2009 - 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
SaturdaySCREENINGS ANGELS AND INSECTS (1999) Krostom Scott Thomas, Mark Rylance From our film curator, Jeffrey Gorney: “One of the most intricate, well-made films I’ve seen. The acting is tremendous, the imagery is subtle yet stunning. A film which makes one think of the intricacies of…
September 18, 2009 - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
GLOBALIZE RESISTANCE TO THE NUCLEAR REVIVAL a free workshop with French activist and nuclear power expert Yves Marignac Please join us for an opportunity to learn from French activist and nuclear power expert Yves Marignac on fighting the revival of nuclear power…Constellation Energy currently owns…
September 12, 2009 - 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
SaturdaySCREENINGS @ ArtRage Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s politically charged, Oscar-nominated documentary follows a group of low-income families struggling to protect an urban farm from bureaucratic real estate developers. The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of…
