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Learning Through Film

 

This 5-part series features the showing of a classic movie on Thursday night followed by a discussion on Friday morning. All sessions are in Jordan Hall. The Thursday movie starts at 7:30 pm and the Friday morning discussion is 10 am to 12 noon. These films have been selected for their ability to evoke questions and discussion and are not suitable for children. Discussions facilitated by Rev. Ash Nickerson.

 

  The Crucible Ladies  in Lavender Ship of Fools Man of La Mancha Stunt Man  

 

July 8-9: Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1996) PG-13
Accusations of witchcraft quickly consume the small Colonial town of Salem after the local minister witnesses a group of girls performing an innocent love conjuring ceremony.

July 15-16: Ladies in Lavender (2004) PG-13
The peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.

July 29-30: Ship of Fools (1965) NR
Among the many passengers aboard a luxury liner bound from Mexico to Germany in 1933 is a divorcee desperate for love and her lost youth ; a Spanish noblewomen being deported as a political prisoner ; an alcoholic ballplayer ; a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come. Their separate but interlocking stories, serve as a brilliant microcosm of a world on the verge of war. From the Katherine Anne Porter novel.

August 12-13: Man of La Mancha (1972) PG
While awaiting trial by the Spanish Inquisition, writer Miguel de Cervantes spins a tale for rowdy fellow inmates, bringing to life Don Quixote de la Mancha, an eccentric with delusions of grandeur who chooses to see life as it should be, not as it is.

August 19-20: The Stunt Man (1980) R
A mysterious fugitive escapes from the law and ends up becoming a stunt man under a mesmerizing, possibly insane movie director. Explores the ever changing nature of reality and illusion.



 

 

 

 

 

Updated: July 6, 2010