As
part of its revised roster of activities, the bookstore
(in it NEW
LOCATION) will be celebrating foreign, camp, edgy
and cult films with a regular screening of a movie each
Sunday afternoon at 3 pm.
This Sunday's choice is 'ROUND MIDNIGHT'.
In 'Round Midnight', real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon
brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale
Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism,
estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread
in the 1950's New York jazz world. Dale gets an offer
to play in Paris, where, like many other black American
musicians at the time, he enjoys a respect for his humanity
that is not based upon the color of his skin. A Parisian
man who is obsessed with Turner's music befriends him
and attempts to save Turner from himself. Although for
Dale the damage is already done, his poignant relationship
with the man and his young daughter re-kindles his spirit
and his music as the end draws near. Written by Siddy
DeRosser
Coffee, tea and popcorn, as always, are provided.
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