Date/Time
Date(s) - Friday, September 20, 2019
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Lascaux Micro-Theater
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Hey Everyone! By request, we are pleased to bring you the new documentary: TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM, 2019, USA, 120 min, PG-13. This film will only be presented for (3) weekends, as the MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL begins the last week in September.
Check out the feisty trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8sUwXTWb4M
TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM currently holds a 97% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but you already knew it would be good!
TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prize-winner. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to ‘70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature. Inspired to write because no one took a “little black girl” seriously, Morrison reflects on her lifelong deconstruction of the master narrative. Woven together with a rich collection of art, history, literature and personality, the film includes discussions about her many critically acclaimed works, including novels The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon, her role as an editor of iconic African-American literature and her time teaching at Princeton University.
“It reminds us how long she had to wait for the recognition she so richly deserved, and what a distinctive, generous, funny, astute, self-doubting, unstoppable and formidable figure she was along the way.” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Reservations can be emailed back to lascauxmicrotheater@gmail.com or left at the theater hotline (304-473-1818).
As usual, ¾ Café will be open for dinner service on Friday and Saturday evenings (5PM-Close), and Sunday brunch (10AM-2PM).
SEE YOU THERE!