The Last Happy Day Premieres at NYFF

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Sunday, Oct. 4 at  3pm
Views from the Avant-Garde Program #8
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center
Tickets: $11;  $8 senior; $7 member, student, child

The Last Happy Day
Lynne Sachs, USA, 2009, 38m
Nothing is Over Nothing
Jonathan Schwartz, USA, 2008, 17m
The Exception and the Rule
Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, U.K./India/Pakistan, 37m
TRT: 93m

Tickets go on sale on September 13 at 12:00 noon.
By Phone
CenterCharge, 212 721 6500
In Person: Walter Reade Theater Box Office

The Last Happy Day is an experimental documentary on Sandor Lenard, a distant cousin of director Lynne Sachs. Lenard was a doctor and writer with a Jewish background who fled the Nazis during WWII. During the war, the US Army hired Lenard to reconstruct the bones of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in Brazil where he embarked on the translation of “Winnie the Pooh” into Latin, an eccentric task which catapulted him to brief world-wide fame. Sachs’ film, which resonates as an anti-war meditation, uses letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, and interviews.The