Film: Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (2023, USA dir. Sasha Jenkins, 106 mins)

This definitive documentary about jazz progenitor and national treasure Louis Armstrong, uses archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations to celebrate his world-renowned music, illuminate his complex personality, and explore the nuances of his role in the Civil Rights Movement.

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All showings Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium. Admission is free.

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Additional Events

Aug

Film: To a Land Unknown

Two Palestinian cousins grow increasingly desperate enduring hardship in the underbelly of Athens, all the while dreaming of someday making it to Germany.

7:00pm Macfarlane Auditorium

Sep

Film: Bitterroot

Divorced and recently laid off, a middle aged Hmong man avoids the pressure to remarry by spending his days drinking, singing, and foraging for coveted morel mushrooms to make ends meet, while caring for his aging mother on the family farm in rural Montana.

7:00pm Macfarlane Auditorium

Sep

Film: I, the Song

A teacher in Bhutan’s capital is accused of appearing in a non-consensual pornographic video and sets out to prove her innocence, only to find that her lookalike from the video has disappeared from her hometown and left behind the mystery of a lost sacred song.

7:00pm Macfarlane Auditorium

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