"The Record" -- Double-Feature screening:

-- Presented by Trevor Schoonmaker, Curator of Contemporary Art!

Featuring: High Fidelity at 1pm  / Scratch at 3pm

1 pm: High Fidelity
(Stephen Frears, 2000, 113 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD)
In a biting romantic comedy, Rob Gordon is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned way -- on... In this biting romantic comedy, Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl. He's a self-professed music junkie who spends his days at Championship Vinyl with his two employees, Dick and Barry. Although they have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and are consumed with the music scene, it's of no help to Rob, whose needle skips the love groove when his long-time girlfriend, Laura, walks out on him. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood.

3pm: Scratch
(Doug Pray, 2001, 92 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD)
A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world's best scratchers, beat-diggers, party-rockers, and producers wax poetic on beats, breaks, battles, and the infinite possibilities of vinyl.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: Nasher Museum of Art, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and Duke University Libraries