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Opening This Week...Desert One; Opening Next Week...City Lights!
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Greetings City Lights Fans,

This week is much more hopeful than the last several for City Lights -- I'm still going to have go light on the details here, but we are planning to reopen next Friday with a full new slate of films (The New Mutants, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Tesla, and Bill & Ted Face the Music), so that's the big news. Thanks for everyone's crossed fingers. We will have more news on these releases and more next week -- we are also making plans to be open 7 days a week again, some days with limited shows. For instance, Mondays and Tuesdays we will only be open for one screening time, we will be selling no concessions, and we will ask that masks be worn while seated. These days are reserved for our most sensitive patrons. The rest of the week, of course, concessions will be available including our amazing popcorn with plenty of packaged fixins. 

As we reopen, we're going to maintain our slate of Virtual Films as well, and in order to avoid some of the inevitable confusion, we'll be issuing two emails a week, Wednesdays and Fridays. Wednesday will be our physical screenings at City Lights, and Friday will be our virtual screenings. We're also making some plans for some select curbside concessions so that members who don't feel they can come inside yet can still get some movie snacks at member prices. More details soon on that. 

This week we have a new film from one of the greatest living documentarians -- Barbara Kopple. Her best known work, Harlan County USA (Academy Award, Best Documentary, 1976) is a film I return to many many times, and am always interested in where she wants to take me. Desert One details the failed 1980 Operation Eagle Claw which sought to rescue American hostages in Iran. "Kopple covers every angle of the story and the history in this gripping documentary that combines incredible archival footage and recordings with interviews of some surviving hostages and members of Delta Force, the unit that attempted the rescue." AwardsWatch. It's a piece of history that had far reaching ramifications--still--with our relationship with Iran. 

So, have a Happy Friday and great weekend and I'll look forward to sharing more with you next week. 

Michael

DESERT ONE: NR, 107m 
Using new archival sources and unprecedented access, master documentarian Barbara Kopple reveals the story behind one of the most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free hostages of the 1979 Iranian revolution.
JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY: NR, 85m 
This documentary concert film captures the sounds and performances of some of the major jazz artists at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Unlike earlier jazz movies that had been filmed in smoky black and white, this is shot in vibrant color. While musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day and Mahalia Jackson perform, images of beaches, sailboats on water, dancing couples and the faces of joyful audience members are intercut into the proceedings.
REPRESENT: NR, 93m 
In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms.
REBUILDING PARADISE: PG-13, 95m 
"A sincere and skillfully assembled tribute to a community's fortitude." Hollywood Reporter
GORDON LIGHTFOOT: IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: NR, 91m 
The iconic Canadian musician, Gordon Lightfoot, reflects on his life and career.
THE GREY FOX: PG, 110m 
New 4K restoration! After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) emerges in 1901 a free man without a place in 20th-century society… until he sees The Great Train Robbery and is inspired to once again do what he does best.
NOTHING FANCY: DIANA KENNEDY: NR, 82m 
Cookbook author and environmental activist Diana Kennedy reflects on an unconventional life spent mastering Mexican cuisine.
CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: NR, 103m 
"If there's a depressing note to Piketty's circular view of history, it's his belief that egalitarianism often springs from catastrophic disaster ("everyone is equal in death" becomes a refrain), and that it's the slow grind of extreme wealth and extreme poverty that breeds those disasters." The Austin Chronicle
CLEMENTINE: NR, 90m 
Reeling from a one-sided breakup, anguished Karen flees Los Angeles for her ex’s idyllic lake house in the Pacific Northwest. There, she becomes entangled with a mysterious, alluring younger woman, whom she cannot seem to resist.
THE BOOKSELLERS: NR, 99m 
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. The Booksellers takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers.
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