Film society streaming ‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’
The Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s Cinema Art Theater offers virtual cinema access to “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts.” SUBMITTED PHOTO April 14, 2021
Starting Friday April 16, the Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s Cinema Art Theater will offer virtual cinema access to “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts,” an illuminating documentary that explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography.
Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, depicting both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture. His colorful, strikin
Olivia Coleman and Anthony Hopkins star in “The Father.” SUBMITTED PHOTO April 14, 2021
The Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s Cinema Art Theater will present “The Father,” an extraordinary drama about a family coming to terms with the father’s Alzheimer’s symptoms, starting Friday, April 16.
Anthony, played by Anthony Hopkins, is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the caretakers that his daughter Anne, played by Olivia Coleman, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can’t make daily visits anymore and Anthony s grip on reality is unravelling.
Viewers experience the ebb and flow of his memory. How much of his own identity and past can Anthony cling to? How does Anne cope as she grieves the loss of her father while he still lives and breathes before her? “The Father” warmly embraces real life through loving reflection upon the vibrant human condition.