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hello and welcome to our june

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agh film series update my name is ryan

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ferguson i’m the film curator at the art

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gallery of hamilton

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happy june to everyone happy stage one

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of reopening

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it’s been beautiful outside uh i hope

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everyone’s enjoying the weather

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and the beautiful weather i know means

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maybe a little less time for

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uh watching movies but i wanted to come

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on and tell you about two amazing ones

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we have available this month

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in our online film series uh the first

Street Gang

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one street gang

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how we got to sesame street it’s

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incredible behind the scenes look at the

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artists the dreamers the educators the

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people behind the scenes and in front of

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the camera

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who created the television show sesame

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street

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and have made it such an important

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institution over the past 50 years

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as a person who was raised on sesame

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street i found it impossible to avoid

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this overwhelming sense of nostalgia

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and joy watching the film i know there’s

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a lot of others out there with the same

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background but

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you know for those of you who may not

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have grown up watching the film or those

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of you who may have grown up before

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the film the show uh those of you who

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made up may have grown up before the

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show was on the air

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there is so much to be learned not only

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about what went into creating the show

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the significance of the show but just

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how everything evolved

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in front of and behind the camera it’s a

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great film and i really enjoyed it i’m

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sure you will too

My Wonderful Wanda

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the other film we have available this

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month is called my wonderful wanda

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it’s a really likable comedy uh from

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swiss director

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bettina o’berley it tells the story of

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uh

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the changing relationship of a very

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privileged swiss family

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and their financially fragile polish

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home care worker over the course of nine

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months it’s a very engaging well-acted

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comedy

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shot in naturalistic style makes it feel

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very real

Film Club

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i really enjoyed the film it also

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carries a strong social commentary as

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well

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so that’s my wonderful wanda so both

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that and street gang are available to

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stream

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online now uh all the way through to

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july 2nd

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and if you got to watch the films and

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you want to talk more about them

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we will be discussing both of those

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films at our monthly film club meeting

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which takes place

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wednesday june 30th at 7 p.m if you go

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to artgalleryofhamilton.com

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you can get a little bit more

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information about everything join

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to watch the films join to engage with

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us in the film club

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everything’s available at our gallery of

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hamilton.com and before we go this month

Film Recommendations

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i wanted to

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mention that of course june is not only

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national indigenous month but it’s also

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pride month um

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and i wanted to recommend a couple of

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films from our

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festival history uh that you might want

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to watch during this month

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uh keeping those those important um

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markers in in mind

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the first was our opening night film

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from the 2020 festival keyboard

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fantasies the beverly glenn copeland

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story

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that was my personal favorite film of

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2020 uh it was such a joy to be able to

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share it as part of the ajh film

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festival

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i can’t say enough good things about it

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it’s such a remarkable story about a

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such a remarkable person um i’ve seen it

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at least five times

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and i get a little teary eyed every time

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um

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it’s the story of the musician beverly

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glenn copeland um so that’s available to

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watch for free on cbc

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gem all month and the next film that i’m

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going to talk about is also available on

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cbc gem

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uh we screened the film at our 2019

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festival i

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personally think this might be one of

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the best films we’ve ever

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screened in my time with the art gallery

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of hamilton

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ella my tail feathers the body remembers

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when the world broke open

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it’s just such a beautiful emotionally

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rich thoughtful film

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tells the story of two women takes place

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in real time

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uh it was filmed almost entirely in long

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single takes so it has a real sense of

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of being almost a documentary and the

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relationship that forms over the course

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of the film between these two women is

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just

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it’s just so beautifully portrayed i i

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love the film so much

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i think it’s also available to watch on

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netflix i

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should have double checked that before i

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came on camera but it’s definitely

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available on cbc gem

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um so i can’t highly recommend those two

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films keyboard fantasies and the body

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remembers when the world broke open or

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they’re they’re just critical films to

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me to watch

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um and if you wanted to talk about those

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during our film club

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sure why not we meet for just over an

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hour an hour hour and a half

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on wednesday june 30th like i said

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earlier if you go to our gallery of

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hamilton.com you can find out more

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information about how to register to

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join that

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and please keep enjoying this beautiful

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weather we’ve been having

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but when it’s movie time go check out

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gallery of hamilton.com

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