This week is a great time for films showing off the beaten path.
On Thursday, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is screening In a
Dream, a documentary by Jeremiah Zagar about his father Isaiah
(pictured), who has created more than 50,000 square feet of mosaic
murals in Philadelphia over the last four decades. Jeremiah examines
the man as an artist and husband, warts and all.
On Friday, Caritas Village is screening a rough cut of the film
100 Lives, the debut from local actor Phil Darius Wallace. The
story focuses on how a man copes with the murder of his 4-year-old
daughter.
Over at Power House on Wednesday, you can catch 12 movies for the
price of none with the free-admission Indie Memphis Micro Cinema Club,
featuring the best shorts from the 35th Northwest Film & Video
Festival, representing the state of filmmaking in the Pacific
Northwest. What do they chain the women to in movies made in Portland?
Zines and microbrews?
The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library continues its Wider Angle Film
Series with a screening of Eldorado, also on Wednesday. Belgian
Bouli Lanners writes, directs, and stars in Eldorado, about two
loners who go on an unlikely road trip. The film is in French with
English subtitles.