Summer Film Season
May, June, July, August --- 2010
Every Fourth Wednesday
CCA Film Series
May 26
Miracle
In A Box
Not Rated
About the Film
MIRACLE IN A BOX is an inspiring film about the coming together of three events—the bequest of a grand piano, the student competition to win it and the months and months of work required to make it sing again. The narration is spoken by the distinguished actor, John Lithgow and the film-maker is Oscar-winning documentarian, John Korty. Not Rated
7:10 John Callahan of Callahan Pianos(which restored the 1929 Steinway) will introduce the movie followed by performances from Eclipse Music Students Claudia Sneathen , Taylor Fridley and Angel Jochi Hernandez Camen.
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June 23
The Messenger
Rated R
Run time: 1 hour 52 minutes
About the Film
Directed by Oren Moverman, and starring Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone, Ben Foster and Samantha Morton.
In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front.
When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband’s death, Will’s emotional detachment begins to dissolve and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival.
July 28
We Live in Public
Not Rated
About the Film
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” visionary Josh Harris.
Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Josh Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web,” founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium.
August 25
The Lives of Others
Rated R
About the Film
At once a political thriller and human drama, The Lives of Others begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany.
The film traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler, a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police.
Start Times • Admission
| Admission | $5 at the door |
| When | Film starts at 7:30. Be sure to check film details for other events that may preceed or follow the film. |
| Location | Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River |