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coming up at boston's independent moviehouses - the brattle, harvard film archive, mfa and coolidge

Special Event Free Screening! Elements Of Cinema Harvard Film Archive Programmer David Pendleton Will Discuss Tabu at 11:00 am (1931) dir F.W. Murnau w/Mathai, Anna Chevalier; Cinematography by Robert Flaherty [82 min] Filmed entirely in Tahiti, TABU represents an unusual collaboration between legendary directors F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Sunrise) and Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North). Two lovers are doomed by a tribal edict decreeing that the girl is "tabu" to all men. While the lovers' flight from judgment and the ultimate power of the tabu are reminiscent of Murnau's expressionist films, TABU is all open air and sunlight, sparkling on the ocean and glistening on the beautiful young bodies of the native men and women. Now available completely uncensored and restored by UCLA, this cinematic landmark is one of the most gorgeous black and white films ever made, and was the 1931 Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography. one day only

Special Live Music Event An Evening With Juliana Hatfield at 9:30 Buy Tickets Tickets $20. Doors at 9:30 PM. It's been just about 10 years since the last time the Brattle hosted a performance by Boston's great alt-rock songstress, Juliana Hatfield, so we're thrilled to welcome her back for this full band performance in support of her brand new album, How To Walk Away. Canadian folk-rocker Hayden opens. one day only

Special Event Int'l Talk Like A Pirate Day! New 35mm Print! The Pirates Of Blood River at 9:30 (1962) dir John Gilling w/Christopher Lee, Kerin Matthews, Glenn Corbett, Marla Landi, Oliver Reed [87 min] Tickets available soon. 2-for-1 admission if you wear a pirate costume! Hammer Studios exhibited their panache for Gothic period ambience in this breakneck-paced pirate adventure thriller. Pirates menace a Huguenot community on a Caribbean isle because the renegades' eyepatch-wearing captain Christopher Lee believes the village has a secret treasure of gold. The community leader's son (Kerwin Mathews, of The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad), who has been sentenced to hard labor for adultery (after losing his paramour to a river full of piranha!), may be their only hope for salvation. - notes from the American Cinematheque one day only

Special Event The Harvard Stem Cell Institute presents The Accidental Advocate at 7:00 [92 min] Tickets price TBA The Harvard Stem Cell Institute invites you to join them for the Boston screening of The Accidental Advocate, a film launched at the Impact Film Festival as part of the Democratic and Republican conventions. When Claude Gerstle, a surgeon and athlete, suffers a tragic bicycle accident that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down, he and his daughter, Jessica, discover hope in the politicized area of science called stem cells. The Accidental Advocate is a wheelchair odyssey of a father and daughter who track down the thinkers, the politicians, the crusaders and the naysayers in an effort to understand the promise of the science and why a political quagmire is stalling a cure. one day only

Special Event Cambridge Center For Adult Education presents Wicked Smart at 6:00 Featuring Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline For this edition of CCAE's WICKED SMART, Peter Senge will speak on "The Necessary Revolution: Creating a Sustainable World." Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline revolutionized our understanding of how organizations learn to transform rigid hierarchies into more fluid and dynamic systems. Today a new revolution is underway: Organizations everywhere are leading the change to new strategies and transformative practices that promote a flourishing, sustainable world. Pragmatic and powerful, today's most innovative leaders know that revolutionary - not incremental - changes in the way we live and work are necessary for their, and our, survival. Hear their stories and get inspired to join the movement. final showing

India Inhales and Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey at 7:00 INDIA INHALES Director: Amanda Rudman; India/USA (25 min) Every day in India, another 55,000 children start smoking -- compared to the 3,000 children who take up the habit in the US, where numbers are falling. Tobacco is one of India's favorite pastimes: Indians spit it, chew it, smoke it, roll it everywhere, throughout the continent. And, inspired by advertising for Wills cigarettes which sponsors the Indian cricket team, children believe that smoking improves cricketing techniques. Hardly surprising, then, that with declining markets in the West, and 50% of India's population under the age of 25, the major tobacco companies are increasingly targeting India as their new growth market. Film INDIA INHALES explores the cynicism of the major global tobacco companies' campaigns in India, and the work of the activists who have pledged to try to stop them -- and halt the soaring increase in cancer cases in India that result from smoking. (From the UNA one day only

UNA Film Festival Seminar with Filmmakers: Creating Powerful International Documentaries at 4:00 one day only

UNA Film Festival Nisha and On A Tightrope at 5:00 NISHA Director: Duco Tellegen; India/ Netherlands (31 min) Every child has the right to obtain information and to make information known, according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. But what should Nisha's mother tell her about AIDS? Nisha is the heartfelt story of an eleven-year-old Indian girl living in a slum. She is often ill, but no one has told her why. Secluded from the other children and confused by her recurring illnesses, her world unravels when her mother confesses that they are both infected with the HIV virus - the virus that caused the death of Nisha's father. Nisha is an intimate, moving portrait of a young girl's brave struggle to come to terms with her fatal illness and the stigma attached to it if revealed to an AIDS-phobic society. (From the UNAFF 2002 Archive) ON A TIGHTROPE Director: Petr Lom; China/Norway (60 min) In an orphanage in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, children study tightrope walking. The children are one day only

UNA Film Festival Something Other Than Other and A Minority Report at 7:00 SOMETHING OTHER THAN OTHER Director: Jerry A. Henry, Andrea J. Chia; USA (7 min) Filmmakers Jerry Henry and Andrea Chia started to film a video diary on the day they found out that she was pregnant. As the parents of a multiracial child they examine racial identity in this experimental personal documentary. They filmed Quin's birth in an unconventional way - instead of using video, they decided to shoot it on Super 8mm and to shoot it frame-by-frame, like an animation. New parents Jerry and Andrea have endured their own share of discrimination growing up. They hope their newborn son can grow up identifying as something other than "other." (From UNAFF 2005 Archive) Official website - http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/5/something_other_than_other A MINORITY REPORT Director/Producer: Stefano Giantin; Italy/Serbia (54 min) A Minority Report is the result of more than two years of research and shooting in the UN administered provin one day only

UNA Film Festival Festival Shorts at 1:00 THE VALENTINE 1955 Director: Susan B. Price and Maria Cristalli; USA (2 min) Two little girls face off. Where is the respect in fearful times? The Valentine 1955 is a two-minute short that serves as a conversation starter for those pondering the politics of diversity. (From UNAFF 2003 Archive) THE DIGITAL DUMP: EXPORTING RE-USE AND ABUSE TO AFRICA Director: Jim Puckett ; Nigeria/USA (23 min) The Digital Dump: Exporting High-Tech Re-use and Abuse to Africa exposes the ugly underbelly of an escalating global trade in toxic, obsolete, discarded computers and other e-scrap collected in North America and Europe, which is sent to developing countries by waste brokers and so-called recyclers. In Lagos, while there is a legitimately robust market and some have the ability to repair and refurbish old electronic equipment including computers, monitors, TVs and cell phones, the local experts complain that of the estimated 500 40-foot containers shipped to Lagos each month one day only

UNA Film Festival Welcome to Womanhood and Saudi Solutions at 3:00 WELCOME TO WOMANHOOD Director: Charlotte Metcalf; Uganda/UK (14 min) In the remote Kapchorwe region of Uganda, female circumcision ceremonies occur every two years. To combat the practice, the UN Population Fund initiated the REACH program that attempted to substitute other initation ceremonies in place of FGM. BBC reporter donu Kogbara returns to see whether the program has succeeded. (From the UNAFF 1999 Archive) SAUDI SOLUTIONS Director: Bregtje van der Haak; Saudi Arabia/USA (77 min) In Saudi Arabia, one of the most religiously conservative societies in the Middle East, women are not allowed to vote or to drive a car. Men and women are segregated in most public spaces and work environments. A strict dress code enforced by religious police mandates that women cover their heads and bodies in public, where they must always be accompanied by a husband or other male guardian. In Saudi Solutions, filmmaker Bregtje van der Haak is the first one day only

Special Event Proceeds Benefit the Brattle Film Foundation 5TH ANNUAL ARTHOUSE at 7:00 5th Annual ART HOUSE A silent ART AUCTION to benefit the non-profit Brattle Film Foundation Something for everyone, with bids starting from just $35! Sunday, September 28th 2008 7:00pm until 9:00pm, bidding closes at 8:30pm at The Longy School Of Music, Pickman Hall 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA (map link below) Tickets $15 - Space is limited so reserve/buy early! Cash bar and tasty treats Video art projection by lumen eclipse http://lumeneclipse.com More information and web preview coming soon! one day only

Special Event Cambridge Center For Adult Education presents Wicked Smart at 6:00 Featuring Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline For this edition of CCAE's WICKED SMART, Peter Senge will speak on "The Necessary Revolution: Creating a Sustainable World." Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline revolutionized our understanding of how organizations learn to transform rigid hierarchies into more fluid and dynamic systems. Today a new revolution is underway: Organizations everywhere are leading the change to new strategies and transformative practices that promote a flourishing, sustainable world. Pragmatic and powerful, today's most innovative leaders know that revolutionary - not incremental - changes in the way we live and work are necessary for their, and our, survival. Hear their stories and get inspired to join the movement. showing through sep 25

Special Event The Brattle Film Foundation and The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Present In Association with The Guidance Center LITTLE FUGITIVE at 3:45 (1953) dir Morris Engel w/Richie Andrusco, Richard Brewster [80 min] Tickets and additional information available soon. Double Feature w/THE LITTLE FUGITIVE (2008). Engel's remarkable verité-style is widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of American independent cinema. LITTLE FUGITIVE is an utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. When seven-year-old Joey (Andrusco) is tricked into believing he killed his older brother, he gathers his meager possessions and flees to New York's nether wonderland: Coney Island. Upon and beneath the crowded boardwalk, Joey experiences a day and night filled with adventures and mysteries, resulting in a film that is refreshingly spontaneous and thoroughly delightful. one day only

Special Event The Brattle Film Foundation and The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Present In Association with The Guidance Center THE LITTLE FUGITIVE at 5:30 (2008) dir Joanna Lipper w/Nicolas Salgado, David Castro, Peter Dinklage, Brendan Sexton III, Justina Machado, Lois Smith [90 min] Tickets and additional information available soon. Filmmaker Joanna Lipper Will Be Present For Discussion! Double Feature w/LITTLE FUGITIVE (1953) With his father (Dinklage) in jail and his mother (Machado) working long hours at a nursing home, 11-year-old Lenny (Salgado) is burdened with the responsibility of looking after his younger brother, Joey (Castro). One day, Lenny plays a practical joke on his little brother and, when the joke goes too far, Joey runs away to Coney Island. Lenny searches for Joey and, as night falls, he fears the worst. Regretting his actions, Lenny becomes more and more desperate to find his little brother - alive and unharmed. This update of Morris Engel's landmark 1953 film is set in present day Brook one day only

Special Event Buena Vista Social Club at 3:00 [105 min] Ticket and event information available soon. one day only