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Hello everyone. We’re adding two new documentaries and one “reprise” to this week’s Virtual Cinema lineup, as follows:<\/p>\n
The Reason I Jump<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>– A Sundance 2020 Audience Award winner, from an acclaimed book by Naoki Higashida (written when the autistic, non-speaking boy was 13), transposes the youth’s eloquent inner dialogue onto portraits of five autistic people on four continents. It is “…an effort to find a cinematic analogue…The portraits are moving and informative…” writes Ben Kenigsberg in the NY Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n Beautiful Something Left Behind<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0– This 2020 South by Southwest Festival top prize winner portrays in poignant detail a New Jersey facility called Good Grief, specializing in treating very young children who’ve lost a parent. Per Glenn Kenny in today’s\u00a0NY Times<\/em>, \u00a0“A simple, elegant\u00a0documentary\u00a0about children coping with such heartbreaking loss…”<\/p>\n Coup 53<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0– With the word “coup”\u00a0on many Americans’ lips this week, we welcome back this riveting, Oscar-qualified chronicle of the infamous (West-supervised) 1953 coup that installed the Shah of Iran and arguably still echoes in both its own current internal history and the region’s geopolitics.\u00a0At the 2019 Telluride Film Festival Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy noted that the film “Has the air of something\u00a0that grew from an impudent home movie into a magnum opus.” Oscar-winner Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now<\/em>)\u00a0and Ralph Fiennes are both creative participants.<\/p>\n And with this week’s inspiring electoral events in Georgia, we’re keeping on for one more week both\u00a0John Lewis – Good Trouble<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jimmy Carter – Rock n Roll President<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n