The weather’s finally starting to improve, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t make time for movie nights.
For May, our monthly themes lead off with three shelves that will run the full month:
Jewish Heritage Month:
A Coney Island-inspired, densely-layered visually dynamic documentary portrait of the life and times of the original Nathan's Famous, created in 1916 by filmmaker Lloyd Handwerker's grandparents, Nathan and Ida Handwerker. 30 years in the making, Famous Nathan interweaves decades-spanning archival footage, family photos and home movies, an eclectic soundtrack and never-before-heard audio from Nathan: his only interview, ever as well as compelling, intimate and hilarious interviews with the dedicated band of workers, not at all shy at offering opinions, memories and the occasional tall tale.
AAPI Heritage Month:
Jadoo
Two brothers, both wonderful chefs, fall out catastrophically. At the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half – one brother gets the starters and the other gets the main courses. They set up rival restaurants, on opposite sides of the same road, and spend the next twenty years trying to outdo each other.
Mental Health Awareness Month:
Just Like You: Anxiety & Depression
10 brave kids, 2 Emmy award winning journalists, 1 clinical psychologist at Columbia University and 1 determined mother take on the fear and stigma plaguing the mental health community.
Mother’s Day (5/11)
And then the Mother’s Day shelf will go up for the weekend of the 11th, featuring:
In Safe Hands
This feature film follows a bright-eyed baby boy from his birth, when his mother gives him up for adoption, to the moment he gets adopted.
Film of the Month:
The Film of the Month this month, available with public performance rights, comes from our AAPI Heritage collection:
Reunification
Filmed over a 17-year period, this award-winning film gives an insider view on the contemporary Asian American immigrant experience, family psychology, and personal filmmaking. Director Alvin Tsang reflects on his family’s migration from Hong Kong to Los Angeles in the early 1980s.
As always, you can expect to see each of these titles, and more, appear right here on the biblio+ homepage
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