Telluride Film Festival at Library: Films of the Great Depression
[click "Play", David Oyster talks about the series on Depression Era films]
"The best things in life are..." You know the lyric. Ain't necessarily so except for the upcoming Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque at the five-star Wilkinson Public Library. Round #5 of the FREE Cinematheque series, which begins Monday, January 3, focuses on "Films of the Great Depression."
Too close to home? Well, maybe. Historically relevant? For sure. These films selected by Telluride Film Festival co-director Gary Meyer explore the ways in which cinema provided a forum for social commentary as well as emotional release for its vast audiences.
Monday night is a double feature, opening with Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece "Modern Times," (1936, 87 minutes), followed by Busby Berkeley's "Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, 97 min.)