For anyone living in or traveling to the Boston USA area, there's a beautiful cultural complex, the Coolidge Corner Theatre, at 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446. The Coolidge is celebrating its 75th anniversary (and remember it's also the 75th anniversary of Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit!). Part of the festivities include an airing of one of the frankest and most enlightening films I've ever seen (despite some horrible dubbing, but featuring Ennio Morricone's eerie cool soundtrack), a parable of colonialism and post-colonialism, as valid for the US role in Vietnam and Iraq as it is about the European sugar plantations and slave/worker uprisings of the Caribbean -- Gillo Pontecorvo's Queimada / Burn! (1969), with Marlon Brando and Evaristo Márquez. It's brilliant on a large screen -- first got to see it that way in Philadelphia in 1992 at the Rittenhouse Square branch of the Free Library.
The Coolidge began operations during The Great Depression -- and it's still going strong. The Coolidge, in a wonderful setting that showcases intelligent and often cutting edge films, has a milieu comparable to the various Angelika Film Centers and also The IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue at West 3rd Street, New York, NY 10014).
For more, please see the official Coolidge website: http://www.coolidge.org/
From the Coolidge website: "Best-selling historian Howard Zinn introduces his favorite film as part of our 75th anniversary celebration."
That's right -- the influential historian Howard Zinn, 86-year old author of A People's History of the United States (1980+), You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1994), and many more, would be worth hearing in his own right.
When? March 9, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
Finally, today's post title comes from this 1982 compilation, which I bought at the time in vinyl in Chapel Hill. For hardcore/post-punk enthusiasts, you can't go wrong with bands like Jerry's Kids, The Proletariat and Gang Green. You betcha . . .
Today's Rune: Partnership.
2 comments:
The Coolidge sounds like a cool place.
I've never been to Los angeles but I've been to New York and there's definitely an interesting vibe.
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