Wednesday March 16 : Seniors Free Matinee
Seniors Free Matinee @ Center for Maine History, 489 Congress St., Portland
Films free for seniors over 65 with a reservation. General audience welcome at regular ticket price.

12:00 PM Free Seniors Luncheon - Luncheon limited to the first sixty seniors who reserve. Call 207/831-7495.

1:30 PM Film Program Begins

3:00 PM Post-film discussion led by Rev. Bill Gregory, faculty member of OLLI at USM

The Fight
(USA, 2003, 90 min., English)
Directed by Barak Goodman

In 1936 and again in 1938 the worlds of politics and boxing collided with two bouts between heavyweights Joe Louis, America's "great black hope," and Max Schmeling, "Hitler's favorite boxer." This compelling documentary captures the lives and careers of two world-famous athletes and the fights that brought them, and their countries, face to face with issues of race, nationality, and ideology.

Click here to read the 2005 Program Book essay on this film.

with Backseat Bingo
(USA, 2004, 5 min., English)
Directed by Liz Blazer

Who says sex ends at 65? A cut-out animated documentary about the romantic life of seniors.

  • Seniors Free Matinee and Luncheon sponsored by The Law Offices of Joe Bornstein and Piper Shores

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