Thursday, September 18, 2008

"Trouble the Water" at the Jacob Burns

PLEASANTVILLE - For anyone interested the movie about the damages of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the film will be playing at the Jacob Burns Film Center for a limited engagement. We reviewed the film two weeks ago.
Here's the press release:
During the past few weeks, more than a million people have been driven from their homes asextreme storms threaten their coastal communities. It is a potent reminder of what happened three years ago, when hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the New Orleans levees crumbled--when extreme weather met extreme poverty. The award-winning film, Trouble the Water, opens Friday at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY. It tells a gripping story about one family's survival of the flooding of New Orleans after Katrina, and their journey into a new life. Time Magazine calls it "an endlessly moving, artlessly magnificent tribute to people the government didn't think worth saving." Directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, executive produced by Danny Glover, Trouble the Water won the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
See the Web site at https://tickets.burnsfilmcenter.org/php/calendar.php?month=9&day=19&year=2008&sid=&cmode=0&org=2 for tickets.
The theater is at 364 Manville Road and the move play on Friday: 5:15PM, 7:15PM, 9:15PM
Saturday: 2:30PM, Sunday: 12:15PM, 2:40PM, 5:15PM, 7:20PM