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Monterey Pop

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Concert Films One of the first rock festivals, the Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place over a weekend in June 1967. It featured the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who, and Ravi Shankar, in addition to Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, and Simon and Garfunkel

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Apur Sansar

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The Apu Trilogy After high school graduation, Apu (Soumitra Chatterjee) is at a crossroads, encouraged to continue with his studies, but barely sustaining himself through private tutoring. On the advice of his friend Pulu (Swapan Mukherjee), he gets away from the city on a vacation to a rural wedding.

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Join & Give

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Global Groove

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Made for broadcast on public television as a “glimpse of the video landscape of tomorrow” (as an announcer at the beginning of the video states), Global Groove takes viewers on a stream-of-consciousness cultural journey around the world through the video medium.

Great American Songbook

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Musicals have been a staple of American cinema since the advent of sound in 1927. The ability to synchronize movement with audio brought a new breed of performers to the silver screen. When we look back, it is these performers—and perhaps the directors—we focus on as the reason for the films’ enduring quality. The composers and lyricists, while not entirely forgotten, are less often credited with the success of a film. But it is the songs we hum on the way out of the theater, and this summer, we are focusing on their creators.

“The Great American Songbook” is a term for American popular music and jazz standards from the first half of the twentieth century. Starting with the music popularized by the composers from Tin Pan Alley to the new musical plays being produced in the 1920s and 1930s to music composed directly for films, this series highlights composers and lyricists in the first few decades of cinematic musicals. From the well-known names of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and George and Ira Gershwin, to the lesser-known Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed, Al Dubin, Harry Warren, and Gus Kahn, this series offers an overview of musical talent that will keep you humming through the fall.

Many of the films in this series will be introduced by Michael Lasser, author, critic, and host of the nationally syndicated public radio show Fascinatin’ Rhythm for the past forty years. 

 

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Nine to Five

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Labor Film Series After suffering endless harassment from their male chauvinist supervisor (Dabney Coleman), office workers Judy (Jane Fonda), Violet (Lily Tomlin), and Doralee (Dolly Parton) take matters into their own hands, putting their boss under lock and key and transforming the workplace into a haven of equality and efficiency.

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