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"Anthropocene" & "Scandalous" at Stonzek Theatre

Saturday, November 16, 2019

ANTHROPOCENE movie poster SCANDALOUS movie poster

ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN
NOVEMBER 15-21
dir. Edward Burtynsky / Jennifer Baichwal / Nick de Pencier, Documentary, Not Rated, Canada, English /German / Russian / Italian, 2019, 87 min.

After nearly 10 years of research, the Anthropocene Working Group, an international body of scientists, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth. From concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of the mainland coast, to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains, to metal festivals in the closed city of Norilsk, to the devastated Great Barrier Reef in Australia and massive marble quarries in Carrara, the filmmakers have traversed the globe using state of the art camera techniques to document the evidence and experience of human planetary domination. At the intersection of art and science, Anthropocene witnesses a critical moment in geological history — bringing a provocative and unforgettable experience of our species’s breadth and impact.

SCANDALOUS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
NOVEMBER 15-21
Sex! Gossip! Scandal!

dir. Mark Landsman, Documentary, Not Rated, USA, English, 2019, 96 min.

For over 60 years, the National Enquirer has pumped out salacious, shocking stories, stretching the limits of journalism and blurring the lines between truth and fiction. Scandalous is the sensational true story of the most infamous tabloid in US history, a wild, probing look at how one newspaper’s prescient grasp of its’ readers darkest curiosities led it to massive profits and influence. From its coverage of Elvis’s death, to Monica Lewinsky and the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the National Enquirer rattled the foundations of American culture and politics, sometimes allegedly using payoffs and blackmail to get its scoops. With rare archival footage and revelations as wild as National Enquirer headlines themselves, Scandalous examines our obsession with the rich, famous and powerful, and the tabloid that has fed those obsessions for generations of Americans.

Let’s take a glimpse behind the closed doors of our long time Boca Raton neighbors.


Location 
Stonzek Theatre
709 Lake Ave.
561-296-9382
http://lakeworthplayhouse.org/indie_films.html