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This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...
MUSIC | The Mountain Goats...
John Darnielle, the man behind the Mountain Goats, performs from his enormous catalogue of emotional, acoustic guitar-driven songs. The Goats’ latest offering, We Shall All Be Healed, marks their twelfth album in less than ten years, and that’s not including EPs, singles and other releases. Come early for the local roots-oriented rock of Choo Choo Larouge and the reflective folk strumming of Manishevitz. Tickets $12. 9:30 p.m. T. T. the Bear’s Place...
...Boston Irish Film Festival presents a preview screening of the multi-layered Irish drama. In attendance will be actor Colm Meaney, a veteran actor of films such as The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain and Far and Away, as well as the Star Trek series, where he played Chief Miles Edward O’Brien. He will introduce Intermission, in which he portrays a hotshot detective in pursuit of Colin Farrell’s petty criminal Lehiff. Tickets $10. 7:30 p.m. Brattle Theatre...
...little bit like being on a highway and then looking at a road sign on the side—that’s why you tend to have a crash,” said Harvard coach David Fish. “Our theme this year is [that] behind every mountain is another mountain, and you have to climb it all over again...