Film

Movie Mondays: Better This World

10/15/2012 - 6:00pm

"How did two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wind up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention?

TCDP TOP PICK | Movie Mondays: Pre-digital "Star Wars"

10/08/2012 - 6:00pm

TCDP TOP PICK: The original Star Wars is 35 years old this year, and while the prequels have their fans (um, me [coughs nervously]), it's hard to resist a feeling of nostalgia for those pre-digital days when George Lucas's space opera was indisputably one of the coolest things anybody had ever done with a movie camera. Bundle up in your Jedi robes and bring a Thermos (and a flask) to the parking lot of the Minnehaha Free Space on October 8 for a screening of the unenhanced Star Wars: A New Hope. - Jay Gabler

Documentary: 'The Ritchie Boys' and Dr. Guy Stern, former Ritchie Boy

11/13/2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Join World Without Genocide for an event and film screening about the Ritchie Boys – a U.S. military special intelligence unit during World War II.

Ending Human Trafficking: From the Global to the Local

10/24/2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Join World Without Genocide for an event and film screening about human trafficking – from Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia to our own communities in Minnesota.

Film: 'From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges'

10/10/2012 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm

Join World Without Genocide for a documentary film screening and concluding discussion of ‘From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges,’ which explores the

TCDP TOP PICK | "China Heavyweight" at St. Anthony Main

09/21/2012 (All day) - 09/27/2012 (All day)

TCDP TOP PICK: A great documentary film can shrink distance, erase time, and create surprising connections between viewer and subject. Such is the case with Yung Chang's documentaries about China, including the acclaimed Up the Yangtze and Last Train Home. China Heavyweight follows a boxing coach into rural China, where he recruits teenagers looking for a shot at escaping their lives as farmers. - Jay Gabler

TCDP TOP PICK | "The Renegades: American Avant Garde Film, 1960-1973" at the Walker Art Center

09/20/2012 (All day) - 01/06/2013 (All day)

TCDP TOP PICK: As curated by Sheryl Mousley, The Renegades is a small but powerful exhibit that you navigate like a maze, a series of strange and unforgettable encounters with landmark experimental films from the 1960s and 70s. The show builds from Hollis Frampton's coolly Warhol-esque Lemon (1969) to an epic installation of Bruce Conner's Three Screen Ray, a statement about the 60s that's notable less for thematic coherence than spellbindingly kinetic energy. Gunvor Nelson's My Name is Oona (above) suggests that there might be a lucrative market for avant-garde video portraits of children—though getting minimalism pioneer Steve Reich to personally remix a recording of your kid saying her name is gonna cost you extra. - Jay Gabler

From Georgia to Palestine – Connecting the Struggles Against Colonialism and Incarceration

09/27/2012 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm

Join us for a screening of the film Hunger, followed by a discussion of the role of prisoner rebellion and resistance in our shared struggles for liberation in the U.S., Palestine, and everywhere.<

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