{"id":6864,"date":"2017-11-13T19:50:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2017-11-13T20:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:52:32","slug":"off-campus-frontier-theater-cafe-upcoming-films-in-brunswick-1117-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/events\/off-campus-frontier-theater-cafe-upcoming-films-in-brunswick-1117-1130\/","title":{"rendered":"Off Campus: Frontier Theater &amp; Cafe : upcoming films in Brunswick 11\/17-11\/30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorefrontier.com\/event\/jane\/\"><strong>Jane<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nWritten and Directed by Brett Morgen<br \/>\nMusic by Philip Glass<br \/>\nGenre: Documentary, 1hr 30mins<br \/>\nFrontier Theater, 14 Maine St, Mill 3, Fort Andross, Brunswick<\/p>\n<p>Oscar\u00ae-and Emmy\u00ae-nominated director Brett Morgen, described as \u201cthe leading revolutionary of American documentary film\u201d by The Wall Street Journal, uses a trove of 16mm footage rediscovered in 2014 from the National Geographic archives to shed fresh light on world-changing conservationist Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and U.N. Messenger of Peace. An animal lover since childhood, the 26-year-old British woman arrives in Tanzania\u2019s Gombe wilderness in 1960 to live among the chimpanzees and study their behavior. The rare woman in a male-dominated field, Goodall has no scientific training. What she does possess are binoculars, monumental patience and a keen eye for details, which she meticulously records in her notebook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorefrontier.com\/event\/neither-wolf-dog\/\"><strong>Neither Wolf Nor Dog<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDirected by Steven Lewis Simpson<br \/>\nCast: Dave Bald Eagle, Christopher Sweeney, Richard Ray Whitman<br \/>\nGenre: Drama, 1hr 50mins<br \/>\nFrontier Theater, 14 Maine St, Mill 3, Fort Andross, Brunswick<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Kent Nerburn, this funny and deeply moving film follows an author who gets sucked into the heart of contemporary Native American life in the sparse lands of the Dakotas by a 95-year-old Lakota elder. Kent Nerburn (Christopher Sweeney), a good-hearted, white American family man and writer, receives a mysterious call from a distant Indian reservation regarding an oral history book he made with Red Lake Ojibwe reservation students in northern Minnesota. Despite misgivings, Kent travels across America\u2019s northern plains to arrive at the bleak, poverty-stricken reservation deep in the high plains of the Dakotas. The old man, Dan (Dave Bald Eagle), who lives alone in a clapboard shack back in the hills with his only real companions\u2014his dog, a close friend named Grover (Richard Ray Whitman) and his granddaughter, Wenonah (Roseanne Supernault)\u2014interrogates Kent as to his motives for working with Indian people. Once satisfied he is not a turquoise clad \u201cwannabe\u201d spouting Indian philosophy, Dan recounts the story of American history from the Native point of view. As the stories pour from Dan, Kent\u2019s understanding of the world is turned upside down. An inanimate landscape comes alive, and a history he thought he knew is called into question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Written and Directed by Brett Morgen Music by Philip Glass Genre: Documentary, 1hr 30mins Frontier Theater, 14 Maine St, Mill 3, Fort Andross, Brunswick Oscar\u00ae-and Emmy\u00ae-nominated director Brett Morgen, described as \u201cthe leading revolutionary of American documentary film\u201d by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/events\/off-campus-frontier-theater-cafe-upcoming-films-in-brunswick-1117-1130\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-off-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}