The Screen Presents: Oct. 18-24 Birth of the Living Dead, Vietnam and Zombies! Ever wonder where the billion dollar zombie industry came from? In 1968, college dropout George A. Romero shocked a society, already infected by the Vietnam war, by creating a film in which the dead arose to eat the living. In his low budget film, Night of the Living Dead, Romero horrified his audience with gruesome action and detailed makeup. This documentary explores how one brave move of cinema redefined counterculture and commented on the realities of war. Rebecca Alvin of the Provincetown Magazine calls it a “brilliant deconstruction of [a] classic groundbreaking movie.” Opens Friday. Opening Weekend Screening Includes Double-feature with Night of the Living Dead Shepard and Dark, the Untold Story of Sam Shepard’s Closest Friendship In the early 1960s, Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize winner and Academy Award-nominated actor (The Right Stuff), meets Johnny Dark, a homebody who becomes Shepard’s friend and pen pal. Despite dramatic differences in their lives, Shepard and Dark remain friends, even living together when Dark marries an older woman whose daughter would become Shepard’s first wife. In 2010, Director Treva Wurmfeld begins filming the friends after they agree to publish their many years worth of correspondence. Treva’s documentary captures the bond of two unlikely men sifting through history, acknowledging all the good and bad memories. David Fear of Time Out New York calls the film, “an ode to a long-lost era of bohemia, an insightful look into male psychology and pathology, a valentine to the art of letter writing and an illustration of how the past is never dead, because it’s not even past.” Opens Friday. Featuring Introduction and Q/A with Director Treva Wurmfeld Fri. Oct. 18, 7 p.m. Tickets on sale now. Live: Spartacus...