Center Aisle Cinema

Thanks to everyone who came to the “A Family Undertaking” showing at the Columbia Public Library. While this showing wasn’t an official showing in partner with the PBS series POV, you might want to check out the film’s POV page with a discussion guide that contains links to resources about the film. Here are some questions about the film that you can respond to in the comments section of this blog post:

1. What do you think would be the hardest thing about having a home funeral?
2. Whose story in the film touched you the most? Why?
3. What surprised you the most about the home funeral movement?

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Thanks to everyone who came to the “Nostalgia for the Light” showing at the Columbia Public Library. Here are some questions about the film that you can respond to in the comments section of this blog post:

1. How do you think the roles of astronomers and archaeologists are similar?
2. In what way do you think Chile should deal with its past?
3. How did this film make you think about the place of humanity in the universe?

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Thanks to everyone who came to the “Guilty Pleasures” showing at the Columbia Public Library. If you want to read some work from Gill Sanderson, who was featured in the film, we have one of his romances in ebook format called Nurse Bride, Bayside Wedding. Here are some questions about the film that you can respond to in the comments section of this blog post:

1. Who do you relate to most in the movie? Why?
2. Do you think romance books should be classified as guilty pleasures? Why or why not?
3. What do you think are the pros and cons of reading romance novels?

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Thanks to everyone who came to the “Battle: Change From Within” showing at the Columbia Public Library. Here are some questions about the film that you can respond to in the comments section of this blog post:

1. What do you appreciate about Battle’s approach to integration?
2. Why do you think integration was different in Columbia than in the South?
3. How do you think Battle’s family contributed to integration efforts?

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Thanks to everyone who came to the Deadline In Disaster showing at the Columbia Public Library. For more links about Joplin , check out our blog post from the DBRL Next Blog. Here are some questions about the film that you can respond to in the comments section of this blog post:

1. How should journalists decide when to act as a citizen and when to act as a reporter?
2. Did this challenge your views of what it’s like for a town to be hit by a tornado?
3. Why do you think it was important that the Joplin Globe published a newspaper the next day after the storm?

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Thanks to everyone who came to the If a Tree Falls showing at the library. Here are some questions about the film that you can respond to in the comments section of this blog post:

1. How do you think eco-terrorism is different from other forms of terrorism? Should it be treated differently in the legal system?
2. How do you think the actions of the activists in the film could have been prevented?
3. What lessons do you think the activists in the film have learned?

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