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Sounder
Sun, Feb 20 | 7:30pm | DGT
Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield received Oscar nominations for their lead performances as Rebecca and Nathan Lee Morgan, sharecrop- pers raising their children in 1930s Louisiana, in this evocative and moving family drama, from the Newbery Medal-winning novel. Lonne Elder III made Oscar history as the first Black man to be nominated for Writing and the first Black person to receive an Adapted Screen- play nomination, and Martin Ritt provided his typically sensitive direction.
DIRECTOR: Martin Ritt.
CAST: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Janet MacLachlan. 1972. 105 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. DCP.
Moonlight
Sun, Feb 27 | 7:30pm | DGT
Director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney adapted McCraney’s theater piece In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue for this visually evocative and emotionally power- ful story of sensitive Chiron coming of age in Miami's violent and homophobic drug culture, which won the 2016 Best Picture Oscar. Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevante Rhodes play the protagonist at three stages of his life, and Mahershala Ali won his first Supporting Actor Oscar for his moving performance as the boy’s unlikely father figure.
DIRECTOR: Barry Jenkins.
CAST: Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Mahershala Ali.
2016. 111 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. DCP.
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