This sounds very interesting. And it’s with New York Times film critic, A.O. Scott, no less. I am definitely going to try to make it.
What: The Holocaust in Film with A. O. Scott
When: Sundays March 20, 27, April 3, 10 @ 7 PM
Where: Park Slope Jewish Center, 1420 8th Avenue (@ 14th St) Brooklyn 11215 718-768-1453
http://psjc.org/2011/02/march-20th-the-holocaust-in-film-with-a-o-scott
Tickets: $20/per session & $60/for the series. Contact the PSJC office to register: 718 768-1453 or office@psjc.org.
The Park Slope Jewish Center is proud to present The Holocaust in Film, a four-session lecture series taught by A. O. Scott, New York Times film critic, with illustrative clips.
More than a quarter-century after Claude Lanzmann’s landmark documentary “Shoah” and nearly twenty years after Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” the Holocaust remains a perennially popular subject in American and European cinema. This course will explore some of the ways that a uniquely horrific and painful historical experience has been commemorated, reconstructed and even turned into entertainment. We will survey the various genres of the Holocaust film–from documentaries and non-fiction-based dramas to fantasies and action-adventure stories–and address some of the ethical challenges they raise.
Each of the four sessions will be organized around a particular theme, with clips from relevant films. These will include well-known recent Hollywood productions (like “Inglourious Basterds,” “Defiance,” and “The Reader”) as well as European films (“Voyages,” “Fateless,” “A Secret”) that may be less familiar to American audiences.
* March 27: Reconstructing and Remembering: Documentaries, eyewitness accounts and survivors’ stories.
* April 3: Reckoning: Movies about the psychology of the perpetrators and the moral dilemmas of the victims.
* April 10: Revisionism, Resistance and Revenge: Movies as alternative history.
A rare opportunity to hear insights from one of the nation’s leading film critics on this important topic.
Sundays at 7:00 PM
Cost is $20 a session; $60 for the whole series for non-members.
Call the PSJC office to register: 718 768-1453.
For more information about the series, please contact Dale Rosenberg at adulted@psjc.org.