Dear APA FIRST WEEKEND FILM CLUB:


Special Bulletin!
Academy Award winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock opens her latest film
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week at the Film Forum in New York City.
Meet Freida Lee Mock and Tony Kushner this weekend! =20

WRESTLING WITH ANGELS: PLAYWRIGHT TONY KUSHNER
A FILM BY ACADEMY AWARD WINNER FREIDA LEE MOCK
OCTOBER 4 - OCTOBER 17

THE FILM FORUM - NEW YORK CITY
BoxOffice: 212-727-8110.=20
209 W Houston Street, between6th Avenue & Varick,
NEW YORK CITY!!

Showtimes: 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00*, 10:00=20
* The 8:00 show on Friday, October 6 is SOLD OUT ONLINE.=20
Tickets available only at box office on day of show. =20
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MEET THE FILMMAKER =20
Q&As with Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock!=20
Wednesday, October 4, at 8pm & Saturday, October 7, at 8pm

MEET THE FILMMAKER AND TONY KUSHNER!
Q&A with Tony Kushner and Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock!
Friday, October 6, at 6pm

=E2=80=9CAn entertaining, intimate personal profile! (Kushner) has a gift
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very funny and serious at the same time.=E2=80=9D
=E2=80=93 Stephen Holden, The New York Times
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=E2=80=9CFreidaLee Mock=E2=80=99s gentle, slightly love-struck documentary
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Kushner,the defining playwright of our age, shows us=E2=80=A6how
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political and artistic engagement. Kushner can do theimpossible with words.=
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=E2=80=93 Helen Shaw, Time Out NY
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=E2=80=9CEnergetic and engrossing!=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 Eric Grode, The New
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=E2=80=9CKushner is so charming that it would be easy to overlook the degre=
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whichhis plays are about things that matter. With his brains, passion
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he=E2=80=99s quite a package.=E2=80=9D
=E2=80=93 Jay Carr, amNY
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=E2=80=9CTony Kushner is the loquacious, immensely articulate, witty
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essay in charisma.=E2=80=9D
=E2=80=93 Hollywood Reporter
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"Mock=E2=80=99svigorous and peripatetic study of the brashly leftist
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hassomething to lift the hearts of intelligence-starved
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progressives and dispirited gay Mormons alike. Deftlyinterweaves a wealth
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performance footage.=E2=80=9D
=E2=80=93 Jan Stuart, Newsday (reporting from the Sundance Festival)=
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Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in
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Caroline, or Change; Homebody/Kabul; co-writer, MUNICH)is one of America=E2=
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prodigiously talented and politically engagedartists. In this
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portrait from Academy Award-winningdirector Freida Lee Mock (MAYA LIN: A
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CLEAR VISION), Kushnertakes us on a trip through his life and times, from
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Jewish boyhoodin small-town Louisiana to his development as a writer,=20
politicallyactive gay man, and endlessly quotable globe-trotting force for
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moreliterate and compassionate universe.
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Mock follows the now-50-year-old writer from just after 9/11 to the 2004=20
presidential election, capturing the fierce moral responsibility that
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hiswork as well as the unique dynamics of his creative process. We
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scenes of early rehearsals and performances of his musical Caroline, or
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and the children=E2=80=99s Holocaust opera Brundibar; visit with Mike
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set of HBO=E2=80=99s Angels in America; and make a trip to
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hometown.=20
Writing from the Sundance Festival, David Ansen (Newsweek) praises Kushner=
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=E2=80=9Chumor, ambition, vision and dazzling braininess.=E2=80=9DWith
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Harden, Meryl Streep, Tonya Pinkins,George C. Wolfe, Oskar Eustis, Frank
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and others..

USA =E2=80=A2 2006 =E2=80=A2 98 minutes =E2=80=A2 <A=20
HREF=3D"http://www.filmforum.org/distributor.html#B">Balcony Releasing</A>

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