SHEFFIELD-The Ritz Film Season Starts This Friday, September 16. This Weekend’s Films at the Ritz:
TYRUS….Friday, September 16, 2016 – 7:00 pm
running time: 77 minutes * followed by Q&A with filmmaker
ticket price: $8 adult, $7 student, $6 TVAA members
TYRUS is a feature-length documentary film directed and produced by Pamela Tom, that tells the unlikely story of 105-year old Chinese American artist Tyrus Wong, and how he overcame poverty and racism to become a celebrated modernist painter, Hollywood sketch artist, and ‘Disney Legend’ for his groundbreaking work on the classic animated film Bambi.
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH… Saturday, September 17, 2016 – 7:00 pm
running time: 148 minutes
ticket price: $8 adult, $7 student, $6 TVAA members
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH is a 1976 British science fiction drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and written by Paul Mayersberg, based on Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel of the same name, about an extraterrestrial (David Bowie) who crash lands on Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet which is experiencing a catastrophic drought.
Media Release/Tennessee Valley Art Association
