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Potsdam's Cinema 10 to screen 'Pride' on Monday

Posted 4/17/15

POTSDAM -- Cinema 10 continues its spring 2015 season Monday, April 20, with a screening of "Pride" which is set in 1984 and documents an unprecedented alliance between gays and lesbians in London …

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Potsdam's Cinema 10 to screen 'Pride' on Monday

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POTSDAM -- Cinema 10 continues its spring 2015 season Monday, April 20, with a screening of "Pride" which is set in 1984 and documents an unprecedented alliance between gays and lesbians in London and a group of Welsh coal miners.

Cinema 10 films screen on Mondays at 7:15 p.m. at the Roxy Theater, 20 Main St.

Early in the film, the audience sees a TV clip of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, smiling into the camera and vowing to crush the National Union of Mineworkers.

At a gay pride march, Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) begins recruiting friends to raise money for the strike, arguing that both groups are targets of repression by Thatcher’s government, the police and the media. What they collect, they then deliver to the miners.

“The Londoners are smart, self-deprecating, ironic, and sometimes furious about their own wounds; the miners and their wives and widows can be hearty, even cheery, but, just below the surface, they carry a lifelong bitterness,” David Denby writes in The New Yorker. “The two groups are fused by anger, though divided by virtually everything else.”

Tickets are $3.50 for students and seniors, and $4.50 for general admission.