Third Eye Film Series

Here is the lineup for the 2010 Winter/Spring Season:

Capitalism: A Love Story

January 11th
Capitalism: A Love Story
Directed by Michael Moore
(USA, 2009)

In his latest film, Michael Moore asks what price America pays for its love of capitalism. As financial institutions run amok and families lose their savings, the American dream is looking more like a nightmare. Moore takes us into the lives of ordinary people whose worlds have been turned upside down by the economy, and goes looking for explanations, paying careful attention to the 2008 bank bailout. Was this really the best hope for the US?  More info

An Education

February 8th
An Education
Directed by Lone Scherfig
(UK 2009)

Winner of the audience award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, this collaboration between Danish director Lone Scherfig and British screenwriter and novelist Nick Hornby is truly impeccable. Set in England in the early sixties, An Education is a nuanced coming-of-age narrative about an ambitious student named Jenny who is off to Oxford to prep for university when she meets a dashing, older man who takes her off course. Despite its familiar plot-line, the film offers a fresh and compelling look at its characters and their situation.  More info

A Serious Man

March 8th
A Serious Man
by Joel and Ethan Coen
(USA, 2009)

Dry, hilarious and gloriously absurd, A Serious Man takes viewers back to the Coen brothers’ home turf of Minnesota. It’s 1967 and Larry Gopnik wants to be taken seriously. His children steal from him, his wife pesters him for a divorce, his brother has annexed his couch and the family bathroom, and a disgruntled student threatens to sabotage his reputation as he goes up for tenure at his college. Desperately clinging to his sanity, Larry seeks counsel from the wise and elusive Rabbi Nachtner. The Coen brothers at their best.  More info

Good Hair

April 12th
Good Hair
Directed by Jeff Stilson
(USA 2009)

Comedian Chris Rock serves as guide in this investigative documentary about the politics and economics of “good” hair in African America. Rock asks tough, smart questions as he goes from salon to street corner to industrial giant. Aided by celebrities and ordinary people, he aims to bring common sense to an arena ruled by a complicated history and a certain amount of vanity. He uncovers a hidden economy that stretches from black neighbourhoods in the US to the businesses that harvest women’s hair in India to the Korean-American brokers who sell this straight hair to African-American women so they can look more European. It’s a black thing, but everybody’s involved.  More info

Screenings are at 7 pm every second Monday of each month at the Empire Capitol Theatre (Main Street, Antigonish).