SUN, OCTOBER 13 AT 1:00 PM
Welfare
L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration!
Co-presented by ‘This is Not a Fiction’
‘Frederick Wiseman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’
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DIRECTOR
Frederick Wiseman
FORMAT
DCP
RUNTIME
2h 47m
SYNOPSIS
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
SYNOPSIS
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
This film is a presentation of the American Cinematheque. Tickets for this (or any other) American Cinematheque screenings at the Egyptian are only available through their site, here.
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AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE AT THE EGYPTIAN: OCT 11 - OCT 13
FEATURING: WHEN WILL IT BE AGAIN LIKE IT NEVER WAS BEFORE, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, PET SEMATARY feat. Q&A with Mary Lambert and Brad Greenquist, WELFARE, THE CRANES ARE FLYING, ZODIAC feat. Q&A with James Vanderbilt.
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