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Opening This Week...Buoyancy...
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Greetings City Lights Fans,

We continue to provide access to a wonderful selection of films in our virtual cinema--each rental helps City Lights, and they are generally films unavailable elsewhere. This week we feature one new opening, Buoyancy, and it's the most highly rated film in current release--currently 94% on Rotten Tomatoes!

"Australia’s hopeful in the Oscar’s reinvented International Feature Film category is the shocking adventure drama Buoyancy, shot in Cambodia with Khmer and Thai dialogue. It turns what could have been another sad immigrant story into a stomach-tightening actioner with overtones of social horror in key scenes of mistreatment, torture and revenge. Making a noteworthy leap from short filmmaking, writer-director Rodd Rathjen brings both drama and empathy to the tale of a rebellious 14-year-old who immigrates from Cambodia to Thailand following a promise of factory work, only to find himself a prisoner aboard a slave ship where human life is worth less than a sardine." Hollywood Reporter

If that sounds a bit intense for your weekend entertainment, we have a wonderful travelogue, Nomad, from Werner Herzog, or the classic Jazz on a Summer's Day, and an assortment of terrific films, all with details below. Thanks for reading and we'll see you soon. 

Michael

PS. Our fabulous selection of older titles remain available theatrically below. And if you need a hand getting the film from you computer to your TV, check this FAQ out

BUOYANCY: NR, 93m 
Spirited 14-year-old Chakra works the rice fields with his family. He yearns for independence and seeks out a local broker who can get him paid work in a Thai factory. Without telling his family, Chakra travels to Bangkok to make his fortune. But when he gets there, he and his new friend Kea realize the broker has lied to them. Along with other Cambodians and Burmese, they are sold to a fishing captain as slaves.
NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN: NR, 85m 
A journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog's creative and personal vision which was shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of 'In Patagonia' and a champion of the nomadic life.
APOCALYPSE '45: NR, 103m 
Apocalypse ‘45 spotlights the sacrifices of the greatest generation as America and the world grapples with the meaning and consequences of World War II -- on this most significant of anniversaries.
VINYL NATION: NR, 92m 
Vinyl Nation is a documentary dig into the resurgence of vinyl records, the diversification of vinyl fans and what this all means for America today. The vinyl record renaissance over the past decade has brought new fans to a classic format and transformed our idea of a record collector: younger, both male and female, multicultural. This same revival has made buying music more expensive, benefited established bands over independent artists, and muddled the question of whether vinyl actually sounds better than other formats. Vinyl Nation digs into the crates of the record resurgence in search of truths set in deep wax: Has the return of vinyl made music fandom more inclusive or divided? What does vinyl say about our past here in the present? How has the second life of vinyl changed how we hear music and how we listen to each other?
EPICENTRO: NR, 108m 
A film about the butterfly effect on geopolitics, the paradox of time, the (almost) end of the world, the cinematograph, sex, and sugar.
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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