The Lark Theater announces the continuation of Mind Reels - a unique documentary and discussion series, formerly live, is now online.

Curated and hosted by highly respected film journalist and critic Michael Fox, a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle and an inductee of the S.F. Film Society's Essential SF.

Presented on Zoom, Wednesdays, November 3rd – December 8th (break Thanksgiving week) 5:00 pm.

Mind Reels Online 2021 is co-produced by the Lark Brain Trust and is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Arnold Kahn, a valued member of the Lark.

Schedule:

November 3 – Marlene - Directed by German actor Maximilian Schell, this film focuses on the life and career of screen star Marlene Dietrich.

November 10 – Forever - A little-seen film that spirals outward from Paris’s Pere-Lachaise cemetery, final resting place of countless great composers, writers, painters, poets and other artists from around the world.

November 17 – Summer of Soul - Composer and musician Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s remarkably broad and deep work—part music film, part historical record—around the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which celebrated Black history, culture and fashion

(Break for Thanksgiving week)

December 1 – Man on Wire - On August 7, 1974, a Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the World Trade Center’s twin towers.

December 8 – Stories We Tell – Academy Award winner Sarah Polley is both filmmaker and detective investigating the secrets kept by her family of storytellers.