The Castro Theatre
429 Castro St
415.621.5288
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The Exiles
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Friday Aug 1, 2008 (6, 8 & 9:45pm)
Saturday Aug 2, 2008 (2:30, 4:15, 6, 8 & 9:45pm)
Sunday Aug 3, 2008 (2:30, 4:15, 6, 8 & 9:45pm)
Monday Aug 4, 2008 (6, 8 & 9:45pm)
Tuesday Aug 5, 2008 (6, 8 & 9:45pm)
Wednesday Aug 6, 2008 (2:30, 4:15, 6, 8 & 9:45pm)
Thursday Aug 7, 2008 (6, 8 & 9:45pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$9.50
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Milestone Films recently scored a surprise hit with a restoration of Charles Burnett's 1977 film Killer of Sheep. The company hopes lightning strikes twice with its "re-premiere" of Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles (1961). Like Burnett's film, The Exiles borrows some of the documentary-like techniques of Italian neorealism to draw a low-key portrait of a marginalized population in Los Angeles — in this case, a small community of Native Americans living in the crumbling Bunker Hill neighborhood. LA aficionado Thom Andersen makes extensive use of The Exiles in his trenchant essay-cum-symphony Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), and it's easy to see why: both beauty and history are captured by Mackenzie's unobtrusive camera.
