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Film Streams

Film Streams

8 Episodes

Art-House America

Filling a longtime void in the city’s cultural landscape, Film Streams opened its doors in 2007 in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, with a sold-out screening of SEVEN SAMURAI. With the help of filmmaker and Omaha native Alexander Payne, who has been closely involved with the institution from the beginning, Film Streams soon expanded to a second location at the historic Dundee Theater, the city’s longest-surviving neighborhood cinema. Distinguished by its world-class education program, which offers film-literacy seminars for adults and students alike, and outreach events that bring Omaha residents into dialogue with artists, Film Streams has become an integral part of its community. Reflecting its commitment to adventurous programming, the theater has selected a mix of influential favorites by Charlie Chaplin, Akira Kurosawa, and Agnès Varda; revolutionary landmarks of political cinema from Ousmane Sembène and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; and portraits of larger-than-life artists from documentary greats D. A. Pennebaker and Les Blank.

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Film Streams

8 Episodes

  • Film Streams
    12:26
    Film Streams
    Episode 1

    Film Streams

    Episode 1

    Filling a longtime void in the city’s cultural landscape, Film Streams opened its doors in 2007 in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, with a sold-out screening of SEVEN SAMURAI. With the help of filmmaker and Omaha native Alexander Payne, who has been closely involved with the institution from the beginni...

  • City Lights
    1:26:45
    City Lights
    Episode 2

    City Lights

    Episode 2

    Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1931 • United States
    Starring Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers

    CITY LIGHTS, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dra...

  • Seven Samurai
    3:27:09
    Seven Samurai
    Episode 3

    Seven Samurai

    Episode 3

    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1954 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima

    One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI (SHICHININ NO SAMURAI) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to pro...

  • Cléo from 5 to 7
    1:30:52
    Cléo from 5 to 7
    Episode 4

    Cléo from 5 to 7

    Episode 4

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France
    Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray

    Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of ...

  • Black Girl
    59:42
    Black Girl
    Episode 5

    Black Girl

    Episode 5

    Directed by Ousmane Sembène • 1966 • Senegal
    Starring M’Bissine Thérèse Diop

    Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in ...

  • Dont Look Back
    1:36:13
    Dont Look Back
    Episode 6

    Dont Look Back

    Episode 6

    Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1967 • United States

    Bob Dylan is captured on-screen as he never would be again in this groundbreaking film from D. A. Pennebaker. The legendary documentarian finds Dylan in England during his 1965 tour, which would be his last as an acoustic artist. In this wildly...

  • Memories of Underdevelopment
    1:39:02
    Memories of Underdevelopment
    Episode 7

    Memories of Underdevelopment

    Episode 7

    Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea • 1968 • Cuba
    Starring Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Omar Valdés

    This film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the most renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Serg...

  • Burden of Dreams
    1:34:59
    Burden of Dreams
    Episode 8

    Burden of Dreams

    Episode 8

    Directed by Les Blank • 1982 • United States

    For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career, FITZCARRALDO, the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. ...

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