Wasteland
Tonight (Wednesday) at 7pm. Waste Land is a documentary about an internationally-known artist who returns to his home country of Brazil to study an impoverished group of garbage pickers and create portraits of them out of garbage (which is his milieau). This project turns into a social empowerment project as the subjects of the portraits become involved in the art making and marketing. Wednesday at 7pm, $7.
The Family Jams
Previously mentioned on this blog, The Family Jams is a music documentary about Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Vetiver, Antony and the Johnsons, and Philly band Espers. Thursday at 7pm, $10, or $5 for students.
Queen To Play
Kevin Kline in his first French-speaking role. Feel-good comedy set in Corsica about a domestic servant and an American ex-pat bonding over an obsession with chess. Friday at 2pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm, Sunday at 5pm. In French with English subtitles. $5 for matinees, $7 for rest.
I AM
A documentary about A-list Hollywood comedy writer Tom Shadyac (who penned the scripts for several Jim Carrey movies) who has been left paralyzed by a cycling accident. Through this experience, he has an existential crisis that leaves him "determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world." I know my synopsis is a little unclear. Maybe you'd better turn to Theatre N's own description to figure out this one: http://www.theatern.org/Films/2011/May/I-Am
Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 5pm, and Sunday at 2pm. $7, $5 on Sunday.
For more info about the films or the theater: http://www.theatern.org/Films
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