Yup, it's currently pouring outside, and I am writing a post about an outdoor movie screening. But I am an optimist.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College launches its free outdoor film series on Thursday at 8:30 with a screening of Fritz Lang's classic thinkers versus workers movie, "Metropolis" (1927).
"Metropolis" depicts skyscrapers, technology and the urban paradise, along with the failure of the city to live up to its expectations. Similar issues are addressed in the art center's new exhibition, "Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film."
All films in this June series will be screened on the east lawn of the art center at the Poughkeepsie campus, weather permitting. (If it rains, the screenings will be moved indoors.)
Other movies are "Playtime" (1967), "Blade Runner" (1982) and "Children of Men" (2006).
Pray for sunshine.
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