VOYAGE IN UTOPIA, TEMPTATION OF CHRIST Double Feature! August 7, 2011

VOYAGE IN UTOPIA, 2007, 83 min. Dir. Laurent Le Gall. Every year, tens of thousands of participants migrate to the Black Rock desert in Nevada to celebrate Burning Man. Facing extreme heat, lack of shade, desert storms and no shops, everybody must survive by bringing their own food and their good spirit. These “burners” mix urban culture with improvised tribalism. With a strong emphasis on founder Larry Harvey and temple artist David Best, this chronicle of Burning Man 2002 expresses the scale and power of the Burning Man experience through superb cinematography and editing. “VOYAGE IN UTOPIA is a remarkable piece of storytelling. It does what our event is said to do: It evokes the inexpressible, it invites imagination to inhabit the unknown." - Larry Harvey. [DVD] Our final Burning Man screening of the year. Discussion following with filmmaker Laurent Le Gall. Starting at 1:00 PM in the Egyptian courtyard, join us for interactive activities and art installations.
Trailer http://www.freerunpictures.com/en/burningman/ba.htm
Wednesday, August 10 - 7:30 PM 
50th Anniversary! BARABBAS, 1961, Sony Repertory, 137 min. Closer in spirit to Scorsese’s THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST than to the biblical epics of its own day, director Richard Fleischer’s visually stunning drama (shot in Technirama 70) about the thief (Anthony Quinn) given amnesty in place of Jesus is a moving, gritty and harrowingly unsentimental odyssey of one lonely unfortunate’s spiritual evolution. With Silvana Mangano, Ernest Borgnine and Jack Palance. [35mm]
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