February 27, 2013
We recently added “Undefeated” to the DBRL collection. This academy award winning film played at the True/False Film Festival in 2012, and currently has a rating of 96% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:
No hope. No future. Until a football season united a team and revealed the character that turned them into heroes. Undefeated is the inspiring and moving tale of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach, Bill Courtney, trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field.
Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.
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January 30, 2013
We recently added “The Boy Mir” to the DBRL collection. The film has played at various film festivals and currently has a rating of 100% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:
Tracks the irrepressible and lovable Mir from a naive eight-year-old to a fully grown adult. Over the decade, it not only is a journey that follows Mir as he journeys into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on earth, but it’s a film that is unmatched in mirroring and revealing the vitally important story of modern Afghanistan.
Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.
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October 10, 2012
We recently added Kati with an I to the DBRL collection. The film played at our Center Aisle Cinema series earlier this year with director Robert Greene in attendance, and it also played at the True/False Film Festival in 2010. The film currently has a rating of 86% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:
An intimate portrait of Kati, a teenage girl about to graduate high school, who endures a moment-by-moment emotional transformation over the course of three tumultuous days that leave her future in doubt.
Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.
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April 11, 2012
We recently added Louder than a Bomb to the DBRL collection. The film currently has a rating of 100% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from the imdb page:
Louder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world’s largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the turbulent lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. Louder Than a Bomb is not about “high school poetry” as we often think of it. It’s about language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance. While the topics they tackle are often deeply personal, what they put into their poems-and what they get out of them-is universal: the defining work of finding one’s voice.
Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.
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February 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 29 › 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Columbia Public Library, Friends Room
Director Robert Greene in attendance!
Robert Greene’s Kati with an I (86 min.) is an intimate documentary portrait of Kati, a teenage girl in Alabama, about to graduate high school. The film captures her moment-by-moment emotional transformation over the course of three tumultuous days that leave her future in doubt. Director Robert Greene will be in attendance for a Q & A session after the film.
Director Robert Greene’s second feature documentary, Kati with an I, was nominated for a Gotham Award for “Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You” after hit screenings at festivals including the True/False Film Festival. The film made its theatrical premiere in April 2011 at the Maysles Cinema and received glowing reviews, including a Critic‘s Pick from The New York Times. Greene‘s feature debut, Owning the Weather (2009) premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and was also shown at DBRL’s Center Aisle Cinema in August of 2010. His third film, Fake it so Real (2011) premiered at the True/False Film Festival. Greene produced and edited An Omar Broadway Film, which premiered on HBO in 2010 and All In: The Poker Movie, which will be released theatrically in 2012. He also edited Making the Boys, which had its theatrical premiere in March 2011, and co-edited the award-winning documentary Anytown, USA (2005).
Check out the trailer for Kati with an I below:
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April 25, 2011
We recently added Teenage Paparazzo to the DBRL collection. This film is directed by Adrian Grenier, and has received some positive reviews. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:
An exploration of the tenuous relationship between celebrities and the people who make a living selling their images. After a chance encounter with a 13-year-old paparazzo, Austin Visschedyk, Grenier takes a step back to think about the celebrity- obsessed culture that has produced the boy. Adrian starts hanging out with the young photographer, learning the tricks of the trade, as well as what made the precocious teen want to spend his free time running around looking for celebrities.
Check out the official movie site for more info. If you’re interested in more of Grenier’s work, you can check out the TV series Alter Eco or his documentary Shot in the Dark (on order).
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