Sunday Schmooze hosted by Fred Craden
The Last Resort
New date!
Sunday, May 26 - Bagels at 10:00 AM Film at 11:00 AM
$11 Members | $16 Public
*Ticket price will increase by $2 at the box office the day of screening
An uncannily revealing portrait of American photographers Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe and the vibrant community of Jewish retirees they obsessively focused their camera's lens on in the sunburned paradise of 1970s Miami Beach.
Before the arrival of Miami Vice and MTV Spring Break, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. Drawn by the small apartments, low cost of living, sunny weather, and thriving cultural life, they came by the thousands seeking refuge from the Northeast's brutal winters. By the 1970s, these former New Yorkers had turned from seasonal visitors to year-round residents, making Miami Beach home to a population that was primarily over 70 and overwhelmingly Jewish. The Last Resort revisits iconic Miami Beach of the 1970’s through the ambitious and captivating work of Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe, two young photographers who captured this aging population for a decade, even as Miami transformed around them. (USA, 2018, 70 Mins., NR, English | Kareem Tabsch & Dennis Scholl)