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from the issue of January 8, 2004
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Opening soon at the Ross
These films will run Jan. 9-22 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Film times are available at the website, , or by calling 472-5353.
• The Station Agent features Finbar McBride, a dwarf train enthusiast who inherits an abandoned railway station in rural New Jersey and finds his previously solitary life disrupted by an outgoing refreshment-stand operator and a reclusive artist.
• OT: Our Town is a documentary about how Dominguez High School in Compton, Calif., put on a production of Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town. In a city with a bad reputation and a high school focused on basketball, the school’s play director, English teacher Catherine Borek, attempts to make Our Town’s Grover’s Corners relevant to her students. With no budget and no stage, Borek introduces her students to the timeless themes of community, family, love and loss, life and death. The students have a hard time relating to the material at first because of the differences in time, place and ethnicity. But they are motivated to update Our Town and make it relevant to their lives. The students get the chance to re-imagine their own town and transform Grover’s Corner into Compton.
GO TO: ISSUE OF JANUARY 8
ARTS HEADLINES FOR JANUARY 8
Opening soon at the Ross
731588S54X
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