Independent Lens, New Jersey film festival, and Clearview Claridge

PBS’ Independent Lens:

Tonight, October 20th: Butte, America -- Narrated by Gabriel Byrne, this documentary tells the history of a mining town through five generations of families. Thousands of people from all over the world gathered in Butte, Montana to work in those mines during the late 1800’s. Listen to the telling of one company’s take over, and how people set aside cultural differences to bond as one. Learn about the Granite Mountain fire of 1917 and the killing of 168 men. See how the story of Butte, America is an important piece of American history.

New Jersey film festival:

Saturday, October 24th: Re-screening of ‘Smart Kids:’ Everything is Ordinary, Schrodinger’s Cat, Land Gewwin and Children of Invention.

Sunday, October 25th: ’Out of Sync:’ Déjà Vu -- an animated vignette about a man and his dog, Mildred Richards -- a short, black comedy about an actress in debt who plans to murder her wealthy aunt until the plot gets sticky, Unremembered -- in the tradition of David Lynch, a feature-length story about a man with no past filmed in non-linear time (appearance by director Greg Kerr.)

Clearview Claridge Cinema:

All this week, the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man; and, from the makers of Paris, je t’aime, the second in a trilogy of love stories, New York, I Love You.