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Man on Wire (2008)
Monday, July 11, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
Tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s
daring, but illegal, high-wire routine
performed between NewYork City’s
World Trade Center’s twin towers
in 1974 is what some consider “the
artistic crime of the century.”
Dinosaur 13 (2014)
Monday, July 18, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
In 1990, scientists discover the
largest Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil
ever found.
The Impostor (2012)
Monday, July 25, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
This is an account of a young man in
Spain who claims to a grieving Texas
family that he is their 16-year-old son
who has been missing for 3 years.
Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Monday, August 1, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
This is a biography about the
late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose
previously unknown cache of
100,000 photographs earned her
a posthumous reputation as one
of the most accomplished street
photographers.
DOCU-MONDAYS:
July 11 – August 29
This series of eight Monday documentary screenings
will honor the late Rancho Mirage filmmaker Joel “the
Docmeister” Hochberg, who directed and produced over
400 documentaries about the people, charities, and
cultural organizations in and around the Coachella Valley.
In keeping with Hochberg’s contribution to the community and Library of
producing and screening documentary films, the series will present some
of the filmmaker’s favorite festival documentaries with some additional film
selections by Library staff. Subjects include people, places, culture, and
visual art. Please join us for any and all of these stellar documentaries.
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Presented by the Rancho Mirage Public Library Foundation