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February
8 -14 (various times) @ the
Bytowne
Caramel
is a romantic comedy drama set in a Beirut beauty salon, where
five women regularly meet and confide in each other. Writer-director Nadine
Labaki takes the lead role as Layale, a beautiful 30-year-old woman who’s
in love with a married man, while oblivious to the fact that a local cop
has a crush on her.
Tuesday
February 19 10pm on PBS
Banished
- This is the story of three counties that forcefully banished AfricanAmerican
families from their towns 100 years ago — and the descendents who
return to learn a shocking history. By Marco Williams.
Saturday
February 23 10pm at Club SAW (67 Nicholas) Double
Blaxploitation bill The Super Cops & SuperFly
(directed by African American filmmaker Gordon
Parks). BOTH FEATURES ARE PRESENTED IN 16MM!!!
Admission is $5.00
Monday
February 25 8pm on ABC
A
Raisin in the Sun. Sean Combs stars in a special three-hour
television movie adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."
PLEASE be sure to see the 1961 original with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee
February
27 (9:05pm) & 28 (7pm) @ The
Bytowne
The Prince of Sugar is a
story of the struggle between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, two poor
nations that share the same island – a conflict made manifest in
the de facto enslavement of Haitian migrant laborers on Dominican sugar
plantations
Friday,
February 29 @ 7:05pm at The
Bytowne
Up The Yangtze is written
and directed by Concordia film school grad Yung Chang, the film takes
us on a journey through the personal upheaval brought to one young woman’s
family. Yu Shui lives along the Yangtze River with her poor family, but
this is all about to change. The Three Gorges Dam – touted by Chinese
authorities as symbolic of the nation’s burgeoning growth and new
prosperity – has meant that the Yangtze is rising. Over two million
people will have to be relocated, and Shui’s family is among them.
Missed an Episode of Da' Kink? Watch
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