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Joan Allen in "Yes" (Sony Picture Classics)Making Contact
We’ll start off today’s show with a look at an ambitious new video project that helps friends and neighbors to reunite with one another in the aftermath of the Balkan wars. Then, Joan Allen tells us about her leading role in the new film “Yes.” She’s joined by director Sally Potter. Next, Doug Ramsey reflects on the public and private lives of saxophonist Paul Desmond. And George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, discusses the complicated and widespread conflicts in Sudan on our regular Underreported feature.
Videoletters
Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek, directors of the new “Videoletters” project, and Holly Cartner, executive director of the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch, tell us about using video and the Internet to reunite people torn apart by the Balkan wars.
Events:
Videoletters will be screening on:
Thursday, June 23rd at 2pm and 4:15pm
Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, plaza level
(between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.)
» More info
Music:
Soundtrack from Heat (Warner Bros.)
#1 “Heat” and #2 “Always Forever Now”
Yes
Joan Allen discusses her leading role as a scientist who has an affair with a Middle-Eastern man in the film "Yes." She is joined by writer/director Sally Potter.
» "Yes" website
Events:
Sally Potter and Joan Allen will be speaking and signing books on:
Thursday, June 23rd at 7pm
Barnes & Noble, Union Square
33 East 17th Street
Music:
Soundtrack from Yes (Edge Music)
#1 “Paru River” and #5 “Norketsou Bar”
Take Five
Jazz critic Doug Ramsey shares his in-depth biography of saxophonist Paul Desmond: Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond.
Events:
Quartet Doloroso will be performing the music of the Paul Desmond Quartet on:
Sunday June 26th at 8pm
Grassroots Tavern
20 St. Marks Place (between 2nd & 3rd Ave)
Music:
The Dave Brubeck Quartet 25th Anniversary Reunion (A&M)
#5 “Take Five”
Conflict in Sudan
Darfur has been cited as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, but Sudan’s problems are even more widespread. In our weekly Underreported feature, George Rupp tells us about other conflicts in the region that we're not hearing much about.
» Underreported series
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