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Times: 7:00 PM
Phone: (602) 257-1222

Address:
1625 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix AZ

Description:
Amir Bar-Lev's "family human interest story" indelibly captures the media maelstrom that engulfed the Olmsteads of Binghamton, N.Y. when their daughter, Marla, age 4, became the darling of the art world with her abstract paintings. As a gallery owner tells Bar-Lev, the situation is "perfect": The family is charismatic, and Marla is, indeed, "a doll" and her paintings, "unbelievable." Bar-Lev chronicles how a community newspaper article about Marla was picked up by the New York Times, leading to more newspaper articles, sold out gallery showings, and media throngs. Marla's paintings sold upward of $25,000 (the owner of the Houston Rockets bought one), and talk-show hosts (Conan, Dave, Oprah) wanted Marla on their shows. "You're in for a wild ride, I hope you're prepared for this," the gallery owner says he told Mark Olmstead, Marla's father, a Frito Lay factory worker who also dabbles as an artist. But no one is prepared when Charlie Rose, during a 60 Minutes Wednesday broadcast, raises questions on whether Marla is the sole artist. Was she coached? Were the paintings doctored, or even painted by someone else? Could she even be called a prodigy? Bar-Lev's canvas expands to consider the nature of art and media culture. It also becomes something of a self-portrait as he struggles with his own growing suspicions about Marla's paintings after he has befriended the family and earned their trust. An Official Selection of both the 2007 Toronto Film Festival and the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, My Kid Could Paint That will resonate especially for everyone who says they don't know art, but they know what they like. Presented by the Museum?s Contemporary Forum and sponsored by Lisa Sette Gallery.

Times: 1:00 PM
Phone: (602) 257-1222

Address:
1625 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix AZ

Description:
In 1902, Giuseppe Verdi founded a retirement home for Italian singers and musicians who ?were less fortunate in life than I and who were not endowed with the gift of thrift.? In this documentary, Swiss director Daniel Schmid visits with its residents as they reminisce about their fantastic lives on stage. In Italian with English subtitles. Presented by Arizona Opera in conjunction with Movies at the Museum.

Times: 1:00 PM
Phone: (602) 257-1222

Address:
1625 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix AZ

Description:
A fashion show in Paris draws the usual suspects: designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers and more. The all-star cast of Robert Altman?s 1994 comedy includes Sophia Loren, Kim Basinger, Rupert Everett and Forest Whitaker, with cameos by Cher, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix and others.

Times: 1:00 PM
Phone: (602) 257-1222

Address:
1625 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix AZ

Description:
Two Chinese coal miners hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident and extort money from the boss to keep the incident hushed up. As they prepare to carry out their newest plan, things start to get complicated. After the screening, Arizona State University?s John Zou, Ph.D., examines how the film is part of a larger discourse among cultures attempting to understand one another in a rapidly changing world. Presented in partnership with Arizona Humanities Council, an initiative to improve public discussion about important issues that effect our future.

Times: 6:30 PM
Phone: (602) 257-1222

Address:
1625 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix AZ

Description:
Director Alan Rudolph stylishly evokes the legendary milieu of 1902?s Paris caf? society and ?the lost generation? of American artists and writers who lived there. While Hemmingway, Fitzgerald and Stein move in and out of scenes, the story centers around fictional Nick Hart (Keith Carradine), a struggling painter who spends his time drinking and socializing in the local cafes, and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin (Genevive Bujold) to sell his paintings. He becomes entangled with a darkly mysterious woman named Rachel Stone (Linda Fiorentino) and her corrupt husband Bertram Stone (John Lone). Mr. Stone is supposedly an art collector who knows all of the most important of people and reduces those he cares little for to pulp. Danger threatens and fortune looms as Hart colludes in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) to forge three now-famous paintings. One is left wondering whose paintings are really hanging in NY MOMA. Presented by the Museum?s Contemporary Forum and sponsored by Lisa Sette Gallery.