Tag: Crosstown Arthouse

Crosstown Arthouse Presents Contemporary Classics: PARIS, TEXAS

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: PARIS, TEXAS

Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp.
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)

Another Wim Wenders road movie, PARIS, TEXAS is the story of an amnesiac named Travis Henderson who wanders out of the desert and only remembers one thing — his brother’s telephone number.  Walt Henderson, Travis’ brother, agrees to come get Travis. Travis has no idea that his son, Hunter, has been adopted by Walt and his wife Anne.  Also Travis has a missing wife, Jane. Jane is not too missing however, because she makes regular deposits of money in a bank account set aside for Hunter.  When Travis discovers where Jane may be, Travis and Hunter take a road trip to find her.  Alcoholism, abuse, mom’s in a strip club, child abandonment, PARIS, TEXAS HAS IT ALL!  With HARRY DEAN STANTON (AVENGE ME!), DEAN STOCKWELL (QUANTUM LEAP!!) AND STAR OF CAT PEOPLE NASTASSJA KINSKI!!

Crosstown Arthouse Presents Delinquency in Cinema: FREDERICK WISEMAN’S JUVENILE COURT

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: JUVENILE COURT

Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp.
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)

Originally released in 1973 and made by acclaimed documentary film maker Frederick Wiseman, JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court. Come see how horrible the Memphis juvenile “justice” system was in the 1970s, and then lament how absolutely nothing has changed!

Film makers Joann Self Selvidge and Sarah Fleming will be at the screening to share information about their currently in-production documentary Juvenile, which tells the stories of people who’s lives have been touched by the juvenile justice system. Learn more: juvenilefilm.com