Documentary After the Storm, screening at MoMA from the 5th to the 11th, follows three Broadway actors' struggle to stage a production of the Hurricane-themed show Once on This Island in New Orleans post-Katrina, as an act of volunteer community service. Time Out's Nick Schager writes that "director Hilla Medalia’s unadventurous structure interjects cursory individual portraits of the cast into its show-rehearsal narrative. Nonetheless, such shallow snapshots don’t diminish the raw emotional potency of this inspiring tale, in which art provides in-need kids with both an escape from daily hardship and a vehicle for restoring confidence in themselves and the future."
Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Zombieland, After the Storm, Afterschool, An American Journey: Revisiting Robert Frank’s "The Americans", Chelsea on the Rocks, More Than a Game, Where is Where?, The Wiz, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.






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