NEW WAVE: DARE TO BE DIFFERENT - Q&A and reception with Larry the Duck & Donna Donna

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Thu, Aug 30, 2018 7:00 PM

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REAL TO REEL Sponsored by Stu & Ginger Polisner


NEW WAVE: DARE TO BE DIFFERENT
Thursday, August 30 at 7 pm | Members $11 | Public $16
Q&A and reception with Larry the Duck & Donna Donna

A profile of alternative radio station WLIR in Long Island, New York, who challenged the mainstream in the 1980s and helped introduced New Wave music to a larger audience in the United States.

U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure: Over half a billion records sold but you may never have heard of them if not for a small suburban radio station on Long Island, NY: WLIR. In August, 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of radio forever. Program Director Denis McNamara, the 'LIR crew and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, mega-radio and all the conventional rules to create a musical movement that brought the New Wave to America. (USA, 2017, 95 min., NR, English| Dir. Ellen Goldfarb)