The Haywood County Public Library begins a documentary series on inequality, Judd Apatow’s Avett Brothers documentary plays one night only at the Fine Arts Theatre and more.
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The documentary ‘Racing Extinction’ receives two local screenings, Highland Brewing shows a documentary on the U.S. military’s reduced dependence on fossil fuels and more.
Screen scene: Local film news
The Weaverville and Macon County libraries and the Grail celebrate silent films, the Fine Arts hosts a benefit screening of ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ and more.
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Weekly Pick
Step
The Story: The step dance team of a girls high school in Baltimore prepares for a big competition while navigating the social pressures inherent to life as an inner-city teen. The Lowdown: An uplifting documentary that makes no attempt to hide its motivations.
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Special Screenings This Week
Fear and Desire
In Brief: Very few people have seen Stanley Kubrick's feature directorial debut Fear and Desire (1953), and for good reason — the director hated this early work so much that he tried to have every print destroyed. Luckily for us, he failed. While it's by no means a great film, Kubrick's criticism of his own work…
Something the Lord Made
In Brief: It's easy to forget that HBO wasn't always known for its original programming, but that was certainly the case when Something the Lord Made debuted over a dozen years ago. At the time, the pay-cable outlet had seen some success with shows like The Wire, Deadwood and The Sopranos, but the days of ratings domination with hits like Game of Thrones…
The Serpent’s Egg
In Brief: The most critically damned of all Ingmar Bergman films, the legendary director’s only English-language work is by now ripe for rediscovery and reappraisal as an intensely personal work unlike anything else in his filmography. The Serpent’s Egg is nothing if not peculiar. For his vision of Germany, Bergman seems more reliant on Sternberg’s The Blue…