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“Life of Pi” Film Screening
August 30, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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With a special introduction by Whitney Crothers Dilley, author of The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen. A wild and improbable tale of a sixteen-year-old boy, Pi Patel, and a Bengal tiger, who survive together on a raft in the Pacific Ocean for almost a year. Based on a novel, early visual inspiration for the film was provided by Alexis Rockman, whose paintings are now on display at the Ackland in Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks.
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