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    These Amazing Shadows

    These Amazing Shadows

    Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre

    May 15, 2011


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    What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and listed on The National Film Registry. These Amazing Shadows, an 85-minute documentary, tells the history and importance of the Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.

    The current list of 550 films includes selections from every genre: documentaries, home movies, Hollywood classics, avant-garde, newsreels and silent films. These Amazing Shadows reveals how “American movies tell us so much about ourselves; not just what we did, but what we thought, what we felt, what we aspired to, and the lies we told ourselves.”

    Directed by Paul Mariano. US. 2011. NR. Running time: 86 min.


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        The Colonial Theatre

        227 Bridge Street
        Phoenixville, PA 19460

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        May 15, 2011

        Times:

        4 pm

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