Screen/Society--Dinner and a Movie Series --"Man on Wire"

Film Screening: "Man on Wire" (James Marsh, 2008, 90 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD), presented in connection with the Nasher Museum of Art's installation "Let the Great World Spin" (July 20-October 6), a thematic art installation inspired by the 2013 Summer Reading book "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann -- A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century." -- Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 2009 Academy Awards! For more information on the Nasher Museum installation, link to: http://www.nasher.duke.edu/edu-gallery.php