Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution

This documentary tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months.

NR - mature subject matter
56 minutes

Ruben Brandt, Collector

“An acrobatic, larkish globetrotting adventure about paintings and psychotherapy that defies easy categorization save inclusion on any adult animation fan's must-see list.” Robert Abele,

Los Angeles TimesA psychotherapist suffering violent nightmares inspired by legendary works of art joins forces with four of his patients (expert thieves) to steal the paintings, believing that once he owns them, the nightmares will disappear.

Arctic

“There are no cut corners, no overly blatant only-in-the-movies gambits. Mikkelsen's stranded pilot has little to rely on beyond his will, so we feel at every step that he could truly be us.” Owen Gleiberman,

Transit

“With Transit, director Christian Petzold creates a Second World War adventure that is not a sentimental costume drama and a contemporary political parable that is not a didactic sermon - and produces a highly entertaining film into the bargain.” Kate Taylor, Globe and MailAs fascism spreads, a German refugee flees to Marseille and assumes the identity of the dead writer whose transit papers he is carrying.

The Wedding Guest

In the latest from UK director/writer Michael Winterbottom, Dev Patel stars as a man with a secret forced to go on the run across East Asia after he kidnaps a bride-to-be.

R; 94 minutes

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Diane

“The past hangs over Diane not just as burden or nostalgia (though it can be that, too) but as an enthralling and entangling reminder of life's mystery.” Owen GleibermanVariety. A woman (Mary Kay Place) fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted sonBut as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past

The Chaperone

Set during the tumultuous times of the early 1920s, a Kansas woman (Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey) is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented 15-year-old dancer, Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson, Split), to New York for the summer.

Capernaum

“The sorrow inherent in this tale would be unbearable without the film's flashes of humor and performances by a cast of nonprofessionals that are moving beyond measure.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime, and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him. Capernaum was the winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

R; 121 minutes

Humor and Melancholy

Featuring: A CMSFW ENSEMBLE WITH ALESSANDRO DELJAVAN

Alessandro Deljavan, piano
Gary Levinson, violin
Bion Tsang , cello
                                                            
performing:

Beethoven Trio No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 3

Haydn Piano Trio No. 43 in C major, Op. 86

Dvořák Trio No. 4, “Dumky”