SAT APR 12, 2025 7:00 PM

THE THIN BLUE LINE / A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME

$12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

Egyptian Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Errol Morris

THE THIN BLUE LINE print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive

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ABOUT THE FILMS:

THE THIN BLUE LINE, 1988, Dir. Errol Morris, 102 Mins, USA

Among the most important documentaries ever made, THE THIN BLUE LINE, by Errol Morris, erases the border between art and activism. A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, it recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Dale Adams, a drifter who was charged with the murder of a Dallas police officer and sent to death row, despite evidence that he did not commit the crime. Incorporating stylized reenactments, penetrating interviews, and haunting original music by Philip Glass, Morris uses cinema to build a case forensically while effortlessly entertaining his viewers. THE THIN BLUE LINE effected real-world change, proving film’s power beyond the shadow of a doubt.

FORMAT: 35mm

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, 1991, Dir. Errol Morris, 84 Mins, Janus Films, USA

Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris’s documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking’s body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of his imagination. Telling the man’s incredible story through the voices of his colleagues and loved ones, while making dynamically accessible some of the theories in Hawking’s best-selling book of the same name, A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME is at once as small as a single life and as big as the ever-expanding universe.

FORMAT: 35mm