MACHUCA Latino America remember another September 11!!! Thursday 13 at 7 PM we are going to share this very good movie from Chile. It is placed in the Pinochet dictatorship context. See you there
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Why we fight? The $400-billion-a-year American war machine is often characterized as overwhelming firepower supported by overwhelming logistics. Not to mention an overwhelming number of taxpayer dollars funneled into an imperialistic battle plan. Eugene Jarecki’s stirring anti-war documentary takes its cue from President Dwight Eisenhower’s profound 1961 farewell address that […]
August 23
Our next movie is: Buterfly ” La lengua de las mariposas” (the tongue of butterflies) is the story of an extraordinary relationship between Moncho, a young boy beginning school and the compassionate school master who teaches him courage and exposes him to the beauty and wonder of the natural world. […]
Thurday 9 Film Series
Our traditional Thursday film series present this July 19 at 7 PM: Children of Heaven Children of Heaven (Persian: بچه‌های آسمان) is a 1997 Iranian film. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998. It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures […]
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“Latcho Drom is a cinematic survey of Gypsy music from several countries. It is touching, sad and joyous. Most of the segments appear to be completely unstaged, unrehearsed. The music, ranging from the sensual flamenco music of the Spanish Gypsies, to the melancholy music of the Central European Gypsies, is […]
Watch Latcho Drom with us on Thursday 12
STONE SOUP’S THURSDAY FILM SERIES PRESENTS NEXT THURSDAY * JULY 5* 6PM “ THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS†This is a quote from Chris Gardner: “Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something…You got a dream, you gotta protect it…if you want something, go get it. Period.†This film […]
Film Series Continues
Our weekly film will be this time: The official story It shows the effect of the “Dirty War” on different echelons of Argentine society. This is a “must see” for anyone interested in Latin American culture and history. It is still an ongoing issue in the countries that were part […]
The Official Story
Our next weekly film : The motorcicle diaries will be held on Thursday 21, at 7 PM. It tells the story of a journey by motorcycle across South America in 1952 by young Ernesto “Fuser” Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. Guevara later became the famous Marxist revolutionary better known […]
Stone Soup film series
June, Thursday 14 at 7 PM we are going to share this documentary film: BirdSong and Cofee, a Wake-Up Call Coffee drinkers will be astonished to learn that they hold in their hands the fate of farm families, farming communities, and entire ecosystems in coffee-growing regions like Costa Rica. In […]