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I’m already loving this…

Now that I’m no longer working a 9 to 9 (sadly this was my schedule most days) I have time to fit in all the cultural activities I’ve had to miss out on - my Fridays for the next two weeks are booked! And, I don’t have to worry about rushing out of work in order to get in! Yay! 

Films and discussions on the agenda:

This Friday:  Copacabana @ NYU

Every year in mid October the Bolivian community in Buenos Aires celebrates its most important patronal festivity: the party of Nuestra Señora de Copacabana. Hundreds of music and dance groups from all over the country, some even arriving from Bolivia, get together in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Charrua for a big parade. Focusing on rehearsals of dance and music groups, photo albums, and the border between Bolivia and Argentina, among other things, this documentary film threads a simultaneously distant and close portrait of the Bolivian community from Buenos Aires.

Next Friday: Medicine for Melancholy @ IFC

After a drunken night, Micah (Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac) wakes up — hung over and pleasantly confused — next to the beautiful and slightly nonplussed Jo (Tracey Heggins). He convinces her to hang out, and together they drift up, down and around the hills of San Francisco, musing about their lives and a city whose rapid gentrification is edging out people of color. Shot in gorgeous, monochromatic tones, with subtle highlights of desaturated color, and boasting an infectious indie-pop soundtrack, director Barry Jenkins’s debut is an ambitious, intelligent, romantic and utterly unique triumph of independent filmmaking.