Thu March 6, 2014
Men At Lunch: The Untold Story of a City's Legend
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The 11th Annual Crossroads Irish-American Festival (www.irishamericancrossroads.org) runs from March 1-30, 2014 and is honored to host the Northern California Film Premiere of the remarkable documentary, Men at Lunch. In this film, director Seán Ó Cualáin tells the story of Lunch atop a Skyscraper, the iconic photograph taken during the construction of Rockefeller Center that depicts eleven workmen taking their lunch break while casually perched along a steel girder.
For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men – and the photographer that immortalized them – remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. But then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets. Part homage, part investigation, Men at Lunch is the sublime tale of an American icon, an unprecedented race to the sky and the immigrant workers that built New York.
Q & A will follow the film with the producer, Eamonn Ó Cualáin and novelist and chronicler of New York City, Peter Quinn, who is featured in the film.
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For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men – and the photographer that immortalized them – remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. But then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets. Part homage, part investigation, Men at Lunch is the sublime tale of an American icon, an unprecedented race to the sky and the immigrant workers that built New York.
Q & A will follow the film with the producer, Eamonn Ó Cualáin and novelist and chronicler of New York City, Peter Quinn, who is featured in the film.
The 11th Annual Crossroads Irish-American Festival (www.irishamericancrossroads.org) runs from March 1-30, 2014 and is honored to host the Northern California Film Premiere of the remarkable documentary, Men at Lunch. In this film, director Seán Ó Cualáin tells the story of Lunch atop a Skyscraper, the iconic photograph taken during the construction of Rockefeller Center that depicts eleven workmen taking their lunch break while casually perched along a steel girder.
For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men – and the photographer that immortalized them – remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. But then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets. Part homage, part investigation, Men at Lunch is the sublime tale of an American icon, an unprecedented race to the sky and the immigrant workers that built New York.
Q & A will follow the film with the producer, Eamonn Ó Cualáin and novelist and chronicler of New York City, Peter Quinn, who is featured in the film.
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For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men – and the photographer that immortalized them – remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. But then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets. Part homage, part investigation, Men at Lunch is the sublime tale of an American icon, an unprecedented race to the sky and the immigrant workers that built New York.
Q & A will follow the film with the producer, Eamonn Ó Cualáin and novelist and chronicler of New York City, Peter Quinn, who is featured in the film.
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Delancey Street Screening Room
600 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94107
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