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Opening virtually today: Zappa and Collective...
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Dear City Lights Fans,

We'll be at the theatre a bit earlier on Friday due to today's football game (thanks Kay!) at 2:30 - 7pm and Saturday from 4-7pm for take-out popcorn and soda. We're adding some additional $5 categories, including Kombucha, Beer and Cider. We have our full menu below. Simply drive up to the front of the theatre and order popcorn -- large only, $5, with fresh real butter, and optional salt, nutritional yeast and parmesan -- and soda, large only $5, Pepsi products (and Mexican Coke in the bottle, 17 ounces). Last weekend was nuts, but we're expecting a more mellow experience this weekend and we have more popcorn popping capacity. 

In addition to last week's new titles, still fresh: NY Dog & Cat Film Festivals and two documentaries, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. and Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams.; we have the de facto doc on Frank Zappa called, of course, Zappa. Did you know he released 62 albums during his lifetime--and 53 posthumously? Now that is prolific. "Zappa repeatedly states that he made the music that he wanted, needed, to hear. If others want to listen, he’s happy to provide the recordings as a public service. In “Zappa,” this legendary artist’s uncompromising nature is bracing, bold and utterly refreshing." Chicago Tribune. Also opening today is one of the year's most lauded docs, Collective. The film has been met with universal acclaim and is hotly tipped as a surefire Oscar nominee. "But the corrosive corruption revealed has ramifications far greater than just in Romania, for it’s indicative of a worldwide phenomenon in which people feel so disconnected from others that empathy has been replaced by avarice, and strangers are viewed as abstractions. This is truly a documentary for our times, deserving of widespread exposure." Variety. More on our virtual cinema below.

And thank you for your ongoing support of our GoFundMe campaign, which is nearing $40k as I write this, only $25k from our goal!

Michael

NEW ON VIRTUAL CINEMA
ZAPPA: NR, 129m 
An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.
COLLECTIVE: NR, 109m 
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
VIRTUAL CINEMA
NY DOG FILM FESTIVAL: NR, 100m 
The Dog Film Festival program is an hour and a half of short films from around the world that are a medley of animation, documentaries and narrative films with actors and scripts. These films celebrate all the ways we love our dogs that will delight and inspire you. 
NY CAT FILM FESTIVAL: NR, 88m 
The Cat Film Festival™ is an exploration through film of the fascinating felines who share our lives, creating a shared audience experience that inspires, educates and entertains.  Cats have their own unique and indescribable bond with people – even when living independently as community cats. For far too long, felines have been the “invisible” part of the human-animal bond and it’s time to shine the spotlight on these magnificent creatures and the humans devoted to them. A portion of every ticket at every destination goes to a local animal welfare non-profit, bringing community awareness and support for the needs of local kitties. 
OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE: NR, 111m 
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks, known for his literary works Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, was a fearless explorer of unknown cognitive worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity.
KOSHIEN: JAPAN'S FIELD OF DREAMS: NR, 94m
Baseball is life for the die-hard competitors in the 100th annual Koshien, Japan's wildly popular national high school baseball championship, whose alumni include U.S. baseball star Shohei Ohtani and former Yankee Hideki Matsui. But for Coach Mizutani and his players, cleaning the grounds and greeting their guests are equally important as honing their baseball skills. 

In director Ema Ryan Yamazaki's dramatic and intimate journey to the heart of the Japanese national character, will those acts add up to victory or prove a relic of the past?
MARTIN EDEN: NR, 129m 
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman. Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING: NR, 94m 
"Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something is an uplifting tribute to an impressive human being." Los Angeles Times
HERB ALPERT IS...: NR, 111m 
Herb Alpert, legendary musician, artist, and philanthropist has sold more than 72 million albums - 29 of them gold or platinum - outsold The Beatles in 1966 and co-founded A&M Records, the most successful independent record company in history. Herb Alpert Is…, directed by John Scheinfeld, looks at Herb’s extraordinary life with rare footage and interviews with colleagues like Sting and Questlove.
NATIVE SON: NR, 93m 
One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright's NATIVE SON (first published in 1940) exposed the injustices of urban African American life, witnessed through the eyes of Bigger Thomas, whose violent tendencies and moral confusion were the inevitable result of generations of institutionalized racism. In prison for murder and sentenced to death, Thomas reflects on the circumstances that led to his fate. 
OUT STEALING HORSES: NR, 123m 
A widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.
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.
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.
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
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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