Upcoming Event: Spring Film Screening

On March 1st, 2015 at 1:30 pm the Kregel Windmill Factory Museum will be hosting a showing of the 1978 Terrence Malick film, Days of Heaven, starring Richard Gere, Sam Shepard, and Brooke Adams. Throughout the story (synopsis below) the film demonstrates the stark differences between the urban factory setting of the city and the wide open spaces of a farm in 1916, two areas that the Kregel Windmill Company operated in during the same time period. This event is free to the public with popcorn and refreshments provided. Come join us for a relaxing Sunday afternoon with some fine cinema!

    "Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill (Gere) flees to Texas with his little sister Linda (Linda Manz) and girlfriend Abby (Adams) after fatally erupting at his boss. Along with other itinerant laborors, they work the harvest at a wealthy, ailing farmer's ranch, but the farmer (Shepard) falls in love with Abby, and, believing her to be Bill's sister, asks the three to stay on his elysian spread. Seeing it as his one real chance to escape perpetual poverty, Bill urges Abby to marry the sick man. Marriage, however, has more restorative powers, and the farmer has more magnetism, than Bill has planned. "Nobody's perfect," Linda impassively observes in one of her many voice-overs, after their brief paradise is erased by plagues if locusts, fire, and lethal jealousy. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi.

For more information regarding this event please contact the museum by emailing to dean @kregelmuseum.org or calling (402) 873-1078.