CINEMAMA!!! A new film series

featuring films every Thursday 8PM at the NEWSTREET GALLERY. Everyone is invited! Join us for POPCORN, DRINKS, and SOFT FLUFFY PILLOWS. This is a FREE event, although donations are welcome. New Street Gallery’s address is:

2800 Washington Street
Avondale Estates, GA 30002

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JULY’S THEME: documentaries

Each month, Cinemama hopes to show films around a certain topic or theme. In July, the theme will be documentaries. For future dates and themes, please check back on this website for updates.

JULY 3, 8PM: Harlan County, USA

Barbara Kopple, 1976
103 minutes, Color

This 1976 Academy Award winning documentary film covers the coal miners’ strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastover’s refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. The film captures the brutal reality of a strike as if you were experiencing it yourself, along with all the strong personalities of that town.

JULY 10, 8PM: Nanook of the North

Robert Flaherty, 1922
79 minutes, B&W

The first full-length, antropological documentary ever made, and the filmmaker Werner Herzog’s favorite film, Nanook of the North documents one year in the life of Nanook, an eskimo (Inuit) and his family, following him as he conducts his everyday life, trading, hunting, fishing and migrating in a landscape that is barely touched by industrial technology.

JULY 17, 8PM: Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Werner Herzog, 1997
80 minutes, Color

Ever since he was a little kid, Dieter dreamed of flying a jet plane. He finally fulfilled his hopes when he grew up and joined the U.S. Air Force, but in 1966, Dieter was shot down over Laos, captured, and down to 85 pounds. Now a quiet old man, he tells his story: capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find strength; how does he now live with his memories?

JULY 24, 8PM: Salesman

Albert and David Maysles, 1968
85 minutes, B&W

Before delivering Gimme Shelter, cinema verite filmmakers Charlotte Zwerin and brothers Albert and David Maysles hatched this culturally significant documentary examining the utterly American profession of the traveling salesman. The film follows four reps of the Mid-American Bible Company as they peddle gold-embossed versions of “the Word” to families with little interest in fancy scriptures, providing a searing portrait of life on the road.





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