[act-ma] Thursday 11/17: "Nostalgia for the Light, " Patricio Guzman's latest masterpiece - Free UPandOUT film screening

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/<http://rule19.org/download-film/film-111117-nostalgia%20for%20the%20light.pdf>Nostalgia 
for the Light/

Thursday, Nov 17th, in Cambridge   [please download & distribute flyer 
<http://rule19.org/download-film/film-111117-nostalgia%20for%20the%20light.pdf>]

*Master director Patricio Guzmán*, famed for his political documentaries 
/(The Battle of Chile/, /The Pinochet Case/), travels 10,000 feet above 
sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop 
the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the 
stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the 
boundaries of the universe.

The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human 
remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers 
and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, “disappeared” by the 
Chilean army after the US-backed military coup of September 11, 1973.

While astronomers examine galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, 
surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, 
search, even after 25 years, for the remains of their loved ones, to 
reclaim their families’ histories. Melding the celestial quest of the 
astronomers and the earthly one of the women, */Nostalgia for the 
Light/* is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey.

"/Such a moving masterpiece... Nostalgia For The Light is Guzmán's leap 
into a different sort of cinema: a philosophical treatise that is as 
stunning to the eye as it is disturbing to the brain... I was 
enthralled. So was the audience around me/." ~B. Ruby Rich, SF360
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"Stunningly beautiful. I don’t know how you can put more into a film, or 
make one that’s more deeply moving./" ~Stuart Klawans, The Nation*

When/where*
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor,
entrance on Windsor
rule19.org/videos <http://rule19.org/videos/>

Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.
[donations are accepted]
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"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education./" ~ Malcolm X

*UPandOUT film series* - see rule19.org/videos <http://rule19.org/videos/>

Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on 
Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, So America, etc etc - for 
billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss 
of liberty and civil rights...









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