Indie and Noncommercial Movies 11/9/11 - 11/22/11

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Each week, Fletcher Powell finds the independent and non-commercial films showing in Wichita and the surrounding areas and brings them to you in this handy guide.

This week’s features include documentaries on Samoa and fascism, and a classic from Frank Capra.



In Search of Tradition: A Samoan Village in 1954
November 10
4:00 PM
Wichita State University, Ablah Library

Part of the “Fa’a Samoa: The Samoan Way,” an exhibition of photographs by Dr. Lowell Holmes taken during his field work in Samoa in the 1950s.



The Last Circus
November 10
7:30 PM
Murdock Theatre

(Follows a circus clown forced into the Spanish Civil War and his son who may have inherited the father’s talent for mayhem)



INNI
November 15, 17
7:30 PM
Murdock Theatre

(A highly stylized concert film from Icelandic musicians Sigur Rós)



It’s a Wonderful Life
November 17
7:00 PM
Orpheum Theater

Lesson Plan
November 17
7:00 PM
Tallgrass Third Thursday, Forum Events Center

(Documentary looks at the 1967 “Third Wave” experiment)



Point Blank
November 22
7:30 PM
Murdock Theatre

(French crime thriller being hailed as an example of economy in filmmaking)