This Wednesday, July 19th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Martin Scorsese’s Silence @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Silence (2017) is a historical drama about two 17th-century Portuguese Jesuits who travel to Japan in an attempt to find their mentor, who is reported to have abandoned the faith. Martin Scorsese directs…
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Film: Tuesday, July 11th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Beauty and the Beast
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, July 11th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Beauty and the Beast @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Beauty and the Beast (2017) is a live-action fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love. Bill Condon directs the two hour, nine-minute film, starring…
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Film: Tuesday, June 27st, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Lion
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This Tuesday, June 27th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Lion @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Lion (2016) is the story of Saroo, who “years after he got separated from his family, at a train station in India, and long since adopted by an Australian couple, decides to go…
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Film: Wednesday, June 21st, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: A Man Called Ove
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This Wednesday, June 21st at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of A Man Called Ove @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. A Man Called Ove (2015) is a comedy-drama about “Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, [who] has finally given up…
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Film: Tuesday, June 13th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Collateral Beauty
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This Tuesday, June 13th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Collateral Beauty @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Collateral Beauty (2016) is a drama about Howard, who, “retreating from life after a tragedy…questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things…
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Film: Tuesday, May 30th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Fences
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This Tuesday, May 30th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Fences @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Fences (2016) is the story of an African-American man, Troy Maxson, raising his family in 1950s Pittsburgh. Denzel Washington directs and stars in the two hour, nineteen minute film, also starring Viola Davis and Stephen Henderson. The late…
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Film: Tuesday, May 23rd, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Hidden Figures
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This Tuesday, May 23rd at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Hidden Figures @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Hidden Figures (2016) is the true story of a team of African-American women mathematicians who were vital contributors to the early America space program. Theodore Melfi directs the two hour, seven minute film, starring Taraji P. Henson,…
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Film: Tuesday, May 9th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: La La Land
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, May 9th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of La La Land @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. La La Land (2016) is a romantic musical comedy-drama about a jazz musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. Damien Chazelle directs the two hour, eight minute film,…
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Cirque du Pizza: The Art of Pizza Acrobatics
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Cirque du Pizza: The Art of Pizza Acrobatics from Great Big Story on Vimeo. When it comes to pizza dough tossing, there’s the classic pitch you’re probably picturing, and then there’s what Tony Gemignani does. The 12-time world pizza champion describes his particular art form as “what a Harlem Globetrotter does with a basketball”—only with…
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Film: Tuesday, April 11th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Moonlight
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, April 11th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Moonlight @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Moonlight (2016) is a coming-of-age drama about a young, African-American man growing up and coming to terms with his identity and sexuality while living in a troubled Miami community. Barry Jenkins directs the one hour, fifty-one-minute film,…
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Film: Tuesday, March 28th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Jackie
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This Tuesday, March 28th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Jackie @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Jackie recounts the life of Jacqueline Kennedy following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as she fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband’s legacy.…