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Sunday, March 31
 | The Waiting Room Thalia Docs
This vivid, intimate portrait captures the American healthcare system in microcosm, stretched nearly to the breaking point. Overburdened and underfunded, the Emergency Room at Oakland's Highland Hospital offers medical help to more than 70,000 people a year. Talented and dedicated doctors, nurses and social workers labor tirelessly to treat a population that's largely uninsured and disadvantaged, with nowhere else to turn for care. See More... |
 | Koch Thalia Docs
Former Mayor Ed Koch was the quintessential New Yorker. Ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, Koch, who died in February at the age of 88, ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. First-time filmmaker (and former Wall Street Journal reporter) Neil Barsky has crafted an intimate and revealing portrait of this intensely private man, his legacy as a political titan, and the town he helped transform. See More... |
 | 56 Up Thalia Docs
No documentary project has rivaled the scope and longevity of Michael Apted’s epic group portrait. Starting in 1964, a film crew interviewed a collection of British seven-year-olds from different social backgrounds. Apted has returned every seven years to check in on their lives through successes, disappointments, births and deaths. Now at the age of 56, the individuals open up again to reflect upon the turns their paths have taken and assess the role of circumstance and self-determination in their fates. See More... |
