Film
Matewan
Mon, Jul 27, 2015
- 7:30PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 135min
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $14
MEMBERS: $7 (free for Level 4 and above)
SENIORS/STUDENTS/VETERANS: $10 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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Intro by Maggie Renzi
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July 2015
Monday July 27, 2015
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2015
series Indie 80s
Directed by John Sayles | 1987
With Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell
"A film with the sweetness and simplicity of an Appalachian ballad."
—New York Times
Gorgeously photographed by the great Haskell Wexler (Days of Heaven), this stirring historical saga dramatizes a 1920 coal miners’ strike in West Virginia—a collective uprising that culminated in a tense and bloody showdown. With an authentic sense of regional Americana, director John Sayles’ vivid drama has the mythic power of a classical Western and the simple poetry of a folk tale.
Talks
Introduction
by Maggie Renzi
This screening will feature an introduction by producer and actress Maggie Renzi.