FRIDAY:
7 pm & 8:50 pm, Film Only

SATURDAY:
7-7:30 pm, Dan Zegart author reading excerpt from Civil Warriors
7:30 pm, Film Screening, Addiction Incorporated, Plus Director via Skype

SUNDAY:
5:30 pm, Film Screening, Addiction Incorporated, Plus Director via Skype

Should major business organizations, such as tobacco companies and fast-food companies, have moral and social responsibilities to the public in what they produce, sell, and how they market? This evening’s program will explore this question.

ADDICTION INCORPORATED is the true story of Victor DeNoble, one of the most important and influential whistle-blowers of all time… In the 1980s, DeNoble was a research scientist at a major tobacco company, where he proved something that the industry had been denying for years: that cigarettes were addictive. In a true act of modern-day heroism, DeNoble took his findings to the people despite a strict confidentiality agreement, eventually testifying about his research in the infamous 1994 Congressional hearings with the seven heads of the major tobacco companies. ADDICTION INCORPORATED is a story of one man risking everything to make a difference, shaking up a powerful industry and saving countless lives along the way.

1 hr 42 mins, rated PG

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Dan Zegart is the critically acclaimed author of Civil Warriors: The Legal Siege on the Tobacco Industry and a featured expert in ADDICTION INCORPORATED. Zegart’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, Ms., Playboy and The Nation. He has also written, reported or produced for PBS’s “Frontline,” ABC News “20/20,” and the ABC “Directions” documentary series.

“[If] the reader is looking for a highly readable overview of the sprawling tobacco litigation, told briskly, comprehensively and comprehensibly by an excellent storyteller, then Civil Warriors is a good pick.”
— The New York Times Book Review

Civil Warriors:  A landmark narrative of an epic legal battle, Civil Warriors is the true account of how one tenacious lawyer led the charge against the titans of the tobacco industry. Investigative journalist Dan Zegart draws on five years of eyewitness reporting, thousands of pages of internal documents, and riveting firsthand stories of plaintiffs, lawyers, jurors, and scientists, to paint a compelling portrait of just what it took to get the unprecedented judgment against Big Tobacco-a ruling that remains one of the most controversial in the history of the U.S. court system.

Friday & Saturday: 7 pm; 9:10 pm

Sunday: 5 pm

2012 Academy Award Nominee – Best Foreign Language Film. Perhaps the year’s most stunning international debut, Michael R. Roskam’s BULLHEAD is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille (Mattias Schoenaerts in a ferocious breakout performance), constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky must confront his demons and face the far-reaching consequences of his decisions.

Acclaimed at festivals worldwide including the Berlin Film Festival, AFI Fest and Fantastic Fest, the award-winning BULLHEAD is visceral thriller bursting with rage that TwitchFilm calls “one of the most original crime films in recent memory.”

French and Dutch with English subtitles. 2 hrs 4 mins, rated R

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Tickets: $6. Members/$8. Non-Members

Friday & Saturday: 7 pm; 8:30 pm

Sunday: 5 pm

Directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly, CARNAGE is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences. After two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the “victim” invite the parents of the “bully” over to work out their issues. A polite discussion of child-rearing soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colors. None of them will escape the carnage.

1 hr 20 mins, rated R

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Friday & Saturday: 7 pm; 8:55 pm

Sunday: 5 pm

“Dance, dance, or we are lost.” Pina Bausch’s final words summarize her life and provide the inspiration for acclaimed director Wim Wenders’ (WINGS OF DESIRE, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB) breathtaking tribute to the legendary choreographer. Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal elevated dance into brilliantly subversive new expressive realms, and in this exhilarating film Wenders captures the raw, heart-stopping intensity of the movement and transforms it into a transcendent cinematic experience. An official selection of the Berlinale, Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals, and now Germany’s official entry for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, PINA features interviews with and performances by Bausch’s beloved original company members, and offers an indelible image of an artist who went the full distance in her uncommonly rich creative life.

In many languages with English subtitles. 1 hr 43 mins, rated NR

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SPECIAL EVENT!

Companion Photo Show in ACME Lobby: JUGBAND MUSIC, from the wings. — The photographs of Catherine Sebastian

FRIDAY & SATURDAY:
6-7 pm Photo Show, Meet-the-Artist, Catherine Sebastian
7 pm Film Plus Meet-the-Director & Musician
9:15 pm Film Only

SUNDAY:
5 pm Film Only

Special Thanks to Chimney Hill Inn and The Stephan House Inn for supporting this program.

Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost is a documentary film on the history of Jug Band Music. It traces the roots of American music beginning with Gus Cannon and Cannon’s Jug Stompers, The Memphis Jug Band and the Dixieland Jug Blowers from the 1920’s, and weaves a tapestry through interviews, live performances, archival footage, and photographs showing their influence on the ever-popular folk and rock movements of the 1960’s.

99 minutes, not rated.

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Todd Kwait is a lawyer and businessman with a lifelong passion for film. This project, which he wrote, directed and produced, is his first film.

John Sebastian, has been thrilling audiences for nearly 40 years. He was the founding member and lead singer and songwriter for the Lovin’ Spoonful and member of The Even Dozen Jug Band. Today John Sebastian is in-demand as a solo artist, studio musician, TV/film scorer and songwriter.

Catherine Sebastian’s photographs in this exhibit capture the various musicians carrying on the great Jugband tradition, including David Grisman, Geoffrey Muldaur, Fritz Richmond, John Sebastian, and Maria Muldaur.

Sebastian studied darkroom and printing with Kirk Kirkpatrick and was a charter member of the Soho West Gallery. Until recently, she was best known for her photographs of the musicians who were part of her life after her marriage to the Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian. Sebastian produced album cover work for Levon Helm and the RCO Allstars, Leo Sayer, Music from Mud Acres, and Eye to Eye, a collaboration of blues greats including Pinetop Perkins, Calvin “Fuzz” Jones and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, and back in Los Angeles, she took iconic photographs of a number of New Wave artists including the Textones, the Plimsouls, Doug Feiger and Jack Lee. She has had work published in The Los Angeles Times, ROLL, Blues Revue and Rolling Stone.