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Laemmle Theatres is proud to present the latest installment of DOCUMENTARY DAYS, our weekend morning series of recent outstanding documentary films. The subjects run the gamut. THE YOUNG AND THE DEAD is about a group of techno-hipsters with a strange dream: to resurrect the dilapidated Hollywood Forever Cemetery -- final resting place of such Hollywood luminaries as Rudolph Valentino and Cecil B. DeMille -- and turn it into the most innovative, life-affirming cemetery in the world. DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is a vivid, engrossing portrait of Amish teens in the midst of the two-year period during which they experience modern life before committing themselves to the Amish faith. The filmmakers captured extraordinary footage of the teens as they grapple with sex, drugs and religious doubt. A delight from start to finish, DRIVE-IN MOVIE MEMORIES is a very fun, very fond portrait of the history and culture, boom, decline and nostalgia-fueled revival of drive-in movie theaters. HAVANA MI AMOR is an homage to love, old television sets, and one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Every evening when the sun is setting over Havana, it's telenovela time. Countless Cubans gather in front of their badly wired, crudely repaired, Soviet-made televisions to escape and see their own lives reflected in the small or large tragedies unfolding in their beloved, never-ending soaps. HYBRID is one filmmaker's utterly weird, one-of-kind documentary about his grandfather's obsession with crossbreeding corn. (You'll think of David Lynch.) Finally, SOBIBOR is a dramatic, chilling documentary about the only successful uprising by Jewish concentration camp prisoners during World War II. The director is Claude Lanzmann, who first learned of the 1943 incident in Sobibor, Poland while researching his film Shoah. He felt the story deserved a film of its own.
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