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<td>The Exiles at the MFA Sept 26</td>
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<td>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:37:43 -0400</td>
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<td>Stefanie Lubkowski <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:SLubkowski@mfa.org"><SLubkowski@mfa.org></a></td>
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<p class="MsoFooter" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman">The <st1:stockticker>MFA</st1:stockticker>
Film Program is proud to to present a 6 show engagement of a restored
35 mm print of Kent MacKenzie’s 1961 film <b style=""><i style="">The
Exiles</i>, September 26-October 3</b>.<span style=""> </span>This is
the first time that <i style="">The Exiles</i> has been widely
available for theatrical engagements.<span style=""> </span><i
style="">The Exiles</i>, was possibly inspired by Kent MacKenzie’s
friendship with Native American artist and dancer Tom Two Arrows, whom
he met when they were both summer camp counselors in <st1:State><st1:place>Maine</st1:place></st1:State>
during <st1:country-region><st1:place>Kent</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
years at <st1:City><st1:place>Dartmouth</st1:place></st1:City>.<span
style=""> </span>Gritty, realistic and far ahead of its time (in a
period when <st1:place>Hollywood</st1:place> films featured noble
savages), the script for <em>The Exiles</em> was created exclusively
from recorded interviews with the participants and with their ongoing
input during the shooting of the film. Native American writers and
activists have long considered the film as one of first works of art to
portray modern life honestly and as an important forerunner for the
cultural renaissance of American Indian fiction, poetry, filmmaking and
theater starting in the 1970s.<span style=""> </span><i style="">The
Exiles</i> is also an artifact of a lost time and place. In the early
1960s, developers and city planners not only razed the existing homes
and tenements of Bunker Hill, which Kent documents in both his first
film, <i style="">Bunker Hill-1956</i>, and in<i style=""> The Exiles</i>,
they leveled much of the hill itself - replacing a residential
neighborhood with high-rises, office buildings and more recently, the
Walt Disney Concert Hall.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style="" lang="EN">“<i style="">The Exiles</i>
is almost unbearably intimate, allowing us to ride along for a raucous
night on the town while simultaneously peering into its deeply
conflicted characters</span><st1:PersonName><span style="" lang="EN">'</span></st1:PersonName><span
style="" lang="EN"> souls.”<span style=""> </span>– LA Times<o:p></o:p></span></font></font></p>
<p class="normal" style="margin: auto 0in;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Kent
MacKenzie was born in England in 1930.<span style=""> </span>He spent
much of his childhood shuttling back and forth between England and New
York.<span style=""> </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Kent</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
attended </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Dartmouth</span></st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span><st1:PlaceType><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">College</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
,where he studied English literature and film writing.<span style=""> </span>After
several years in the army, Kent moved to California and enrolled in
University of Southern California Cinema Department.<span style=""> </span>His
student film, the documentary <i style="">Bunker Hill-1956</i> was
screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival where it won a Silver Award.<span
style=""> </span><i style="">The Exiles</i> was his second feature
film.<span style=""> </span>Kent edited, produced and directed one
other feature film, <em>Saturday Morning</em>, in 1971 before he
passed away in Marin County, California in May 1980<span
class="642481014-26082008">.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3">Tickets: Members, seniors and students
$8; general admission $10. </font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
name="OLE_LINK206"></a><a moz-do-not-send="true" name="OLE_LINK205"><span
style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Discount matinee prices
(weekday until 5 pm; weekends until 12:30 pm) are $6, $7.<span style="">
</span>To purchase please call the box office at 617-369-3306 or online
at </font></span></a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mfa.org/film"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style=""><span style="">www.mfa.org/film</span></span><span
style=""><span style=""></span></span></font></font></a><span style=""><span
style=""><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">.<span style="">
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face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style=""><i
style=""><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The Exiles<o:p></o:p></font></font></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman">Fri. Sept. 26 6:45 pm<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman">Sat. Sept 27 7:30 pm<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman">Wed. Oct. 1 6:45 pm<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman">Fri. Oct. 3 4:30 pm<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman">Sat. Oct. 4 12:00 pm<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman">Wed. Oct. 8 5:00 pm<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman"><i style="">The Exiles</i> by Kent MacKenzie
(1961, 72 min.). Three years in the making, <i style="">The Exiles</i><span
style=""> </span>chronicles a day in the life of a group of
twenty-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the
1950s to live in the district of Bunker Hill in <st1:City><st1:place>Los
Angeles</st1:place></st1:City>. Bunker Hill was then a blighted
residential locality of decayed Victorian mansions, sometimes featured
in the writings of Raymond Chandler, John Fante and Charles Bukowski.
The structure of the film is that of a narrative feature, the script
pieced together from interviews with the documentary subjects. <i
style="">The New Yorker</i> critic Richard Brody says, “Miraculous…few
directors in the history of cinema have so skillfully and deeply joined
a sense of place with the subtle flux of inner life.” <i style="">The
Exiles</i> has recently been restored to its full glory with support
from, among others, director Charles Burnett. <i style="">The Exiles</i>
shares similarities with Burnett<st1:PersonName>'</st1:PersonName>s
legendary <i style="">Killer of Sheep</i>: both are gritty,
frills-free depictions of marginalized <st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:City>
communities.</font></font></p>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Stefanie Lubkowski</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Film & Concerts Press
Officer</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Museum of Fine arts,
Boston</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">465 Huntington Avenue</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Boston, MA 02115</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">617-369-3687</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:slubkowski@mfa.org">slubkowski@mfa.org</a></font></div>
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