If his offbeat choice of sources and his often-casual approach to the facts are the qualities that make his documentaries so confounding and controversial, they are also what make them utterly compelling and entertaining. Winner of Britain's Robert Flaherty Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1981 for Soldier Girl , an expose of female Army recruits enduring basic training in Georgia, Broomfield is perhaps best known for his 1998 Kurt and Courtney . Broomfield a decade earlier turned his camera on Lily Tomlin, capturing the creation of her hilarious one-woman show, The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe , from writing to rehearsing to Broadway. It became his trademark style. Broomfield will appear in person at the Saturday, April 8 screening of Kurt and Courtney .
Tickets are available at the theater one hour before showtime.