Summer Film Series
Hosted by Café Nola@MOCA
All films start at 8pm
Café Nola will be hosting a special Summer series of films hand picked by Café Nola staff. Each month will carry a theme and each night will feature a special menu as well as drink specials at the bar. Mark these dates on your calendar to beat the heat, drink & eat! Reservations are strongly suggested for dining at Café Nola.
$5 MOCA members/ $7 non-members; $2 discount for dining in Café Nola @ MOCA before the show
June = Music
June 11
Punks Not Dead
Susan Dynner 2007
Run time: 93 min. | USA
More than just a tribute documentary! It takes you on an era-by-era journey that puts punk rock’s non-conformist reputation under the knife. Punks Not Dead follows the evolution of punk music from its anarchic roots, to its use as a corporate marketing tool and acceptance into modern culture, to its reinvention in today’s underground scene. imdb
June 25
Crossing The Bridge: The Sounds of Istanbul
Fatih Akin 2005
Run time: 90 min. | Germany/Turkey
A European musician and composer sets out to capture the musical diversity of Istanbul. His voyage leads to the discovery of a broad spectrum ranging from modern electronic, rock and hip-hop to classical “Arabesque”. Witness the diversity and uniqueness of the historic and recent expressions of musical creativity in the heart of Istanbul. imdb
July = America
July 9
Trouble the Water
Carl Deal/Tia Lessin 2008
Run time: 90 min. | USA
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this astonishingly powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Filmed largely by a 9th Ward resident with a video camera, Trouble The Water weaves an insider’s view with in your face filmmaking. imdb
July 23
Examined Life: Philosophy is in the streets
Astra Taylor 2008
Run time: 87 min. | Canada
Accompany some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.
Examined Life reveals philosophy’s power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it. imdb
August = Art
August 13
DOWNTOWN 81
Edo Bertoglio 2001
Run time: 75 min. | USA/France
Legendary painter, graffiti artist, poet and musician Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was only 19 years old when he played the lead in DOWNTOWN 81, a striking “lost” film that chronicles the explosive early 1980s Manhattan art and music scene. Shot on location, DOWNTOWN 81 not only captures one of the most important and provocative artists of the 20th-century as he is poised for worldwide fame, but is also a vivid snapshot of a New York City that no longer exists. imdb
August 20
Louise Bourgeois – The Spider, the Mistress & the Tangerine
Marion Cajori/Amei Wallach 2008
Run time: 99 min. |USA
This film is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. Her process is on full display in this extraordinary documentary. In 1982, at the age of 71, she became the first woman to be honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In the decades since, she has created her most powerful and persuasive work. It is an intimate, human and educational engagement with an artist’s world. imbd