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Glendale Public Library Film Program 2010 |
Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. in the Central Library Auditorium.
The Library has personal listening devices for assisted amplification. Please ask the projectionist before the film begins.
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September 7
This is Elvis 1981; PG; 101 min
The King - the definitive creator of rock and roll - is the subject of this documentary. This film provides a look at the man behind the myth on his journey from obscurity to the most popular performer in music history. The film goes through the years and stages of Elvis' life and shows how he fell apart in the seventies and how he finally died of sadness, loneliness and total depression. Interspersed are rare clips from some of Elvis' greatest performances. This film shows the irony of someone so powerfully yet kind and generous who was himself overpowered by drugs and depression.
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September 14
Buena Vista Social Club 1999; G; 105 min
This is a documentary of a group of famous Cuban jazz musicians who teamed up to bring their music to the world. In 1996, Award winning American guitarist Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of Cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and Grammy winning album, "The Buena Vista Social Club." This ground-breaking documentary, inspired by the album, includes appearances by legendary performers Ry & Joaquim Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzales, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo and many other renowned Cuban Musicians. Documentary filmmaker Wim Wenders traveled to Havana, Cuba, to chronicle the cooperation and camaraderie between the musicians, as well as their dazzling sell-out concerts in Amsterdam and New York's Carnegie Hall in 1998.
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September 21
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey 1993; PG; 83 min
This amazing documentary explores the life of Russian professor Leon Theremin, inventor of the electronic musical instrument that bears his namesake. Anyone familiar with many of the 1950's sci-fi movies would instantly recognize its eerie sound. Soviet agents in the mid-30s kidnapped Theremin and we are allowed to eavesdrop on his emotional reunion with his American friends almost 60 years later. Theremin remained virtually unknown until this documentary despite having launched a new era of electronic music in the 1920's.
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September 28
Rattle & Hum 1988; PG-13; 90 min
In this spectacular documentary of the hugely popular Irish rock band U2, a panorama of light and sound decorates the screen. There is a special duet with Bono and bluesman B.B. King, and U2 plays and sings their hottest hits from The Joshua Tree and other favorites in their triumphant U.S. tour.
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