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Events
ALBA sponsors many educational activities promoting the history and legacy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. ALBA and affiliated organizations regularly schedule events open to the general public, including annual reunions, lectures, concerts, exhibits, and film screenings. The latest events include:
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives & the San Francisco Laborfest Film Festival
invite you to the U.S. premiere screening of A War in Hollywood (Hollywood contra Franco)
Directed by Oriol Porta, with Walter Bernstein, Susan Sarandon, and Moe Fishman.
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 2pm
The Delancey Street Screening Room
600 Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94107
Tickets $10; seniors/students $8
Click here to buy tickets.
A WAR IN HOLLYWOOD is an in-depth look at the impact that the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship had on the North American film industry.
Hollywood used the Civil War as a subject in more than 50 films. The defeat of democracy in Spain left an “open wound” in the heart of liberal actors, directors and screenwriters in the US, who used affection towards democratic Spain as a symbolic feature to define the romantic spirit of their characters. This sympathy, however, was shaped according to the American political tendencies of each period.
This evolution is narrated through the personal story of Alvah Bessie, a Hollywood screenwriter who fought as a member of the International Brigade.
This meticulous documentary includes excerpts from Casablanca, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Way We Were among others, and commentary by actress Susan Sarandon, screenwriters Arthur Laurents and Walter Bernstein and cinema historians Román Gubern and Patrick McGilligan.
