"Watching 'Casablanca' prior to Nov. 5 was a different experience from watching it post Nov. 5," he says, and the audience response gave him the idea for a festival of four films from the 1940s to celebrate and dramatize the struggle to preserve democracy.
Lavine thought, 'Let's play 'Casablanca' after the election. It'll remind people that the country is moving in the right direction.' But with Harris' loss to Trump, he started dreading the 'Casablanca' screening.
Despite Lavine's fears, the screening of 'Casablanca' became the biggest crowd the theater had ever seen, with intense energy and an audience focused on the fight against tyranny.
In presenting this festival, Lavine says he's not trying to make an analogy between Trump's supporters and the rise of Nazism. 'My brother voted for Trump, and so did my favorite cousin.'
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