What's on tap at Cinema 16:9, including Michel Gondry and a Philly prisons doc featuring a former CP-er

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What's on tap at Cinema 16:9, including Michel Gondry and a Philly prisons doc featuring a former CP-er

POSTED: Friday, May 7, 2010, 4:51 PM

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Cinema 16:9 has got some stellar things on tap and just 'cause they're right outside of the city doesn't mean you shouldn't know about 'em.

Former City Paper staff writer Tom Namako is featured in Broken on All Sides, a doc on overcrowding in Philadelphia prisons. Namako got the feature because of his June 2008 cover story, "Locked Down." In the story, he recount this story from his piece:

Around 2 a.m. on May 1, Thomas dreamt he was out in the rain. This was strange, since he's barely been outdoors since he got to prison on April 22. The dream started to feel real. He forced himself to wake up. It was no dream. He was actually getting wet. "Oh, my bad," his cellie said groggily, redirecting his urine to the toilet. Thomas' blue boat was about 20 inches away from the latrine. He was infuriated. But he couldn't have done much about it. "There's a reason I'm down there," Thomas says. "I'm 5-foot-5. I'm the small guy." He had to either toss the blanket and sleep with mice, or sleep with the urine-soaked blanket and avoid the vermin. He chose the mice. The next day, his cell block spent most of the day on restricted movement. Thomas and the urinator sat just feet apart from each other for long hours. His cellie apologized again. Thomas was humiliated.

The ever-expanding 16:9 also touts the new Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) doc L'Ã©pine dans le coeur (The Thorn in My Heart) about Gondry's aunt Suzette. It's playing at various times until May 20. Here's the trailer:

Broken on All Sides, Fri.-Sat., May 7-8, 9 p.m., $12; The Thorn in the Heart (L'Ã©pine dans le coeur), Fri.-Thu., May 7-20 2, 7 and 9 p.m., $5-$7.50; Cinema 16:9, 35 N. Lansdowne Ave., Lansdowne, 484-461-7676, cinema169.com

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