“Pain and Glory” Tells Autumnal Truths

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Books, Film

Click Here to Read: “Pain and Glory” Tells Autumnal Truths: Gathering his obsessions together like old friends, Pedro Almodóvar has made one of his richest and most sombre films yet By Anthony Lane in the New Yorker on October 4, 2019.

Click Here to Purchase: Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira with Merle Molofsky from IPbooks.net

Where’s My Roy Cohn?: A documentary on McCarthy’s right-hand man, mentor to Trump

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Film, Politics

Click Here to Read: Where’s My Roy Cohn?: A documentary on McCarthy’s right-hand man, mentor to Trump By Fred Mazelis on the World Socialist Web Site on October 7, 2019.

Movies Monday: A Man and A Woman

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 7, 2019October 6, 2019 Film

Click Here to Read: A Man and a Woman: Old Grief Can Interfere With New Love by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch blog on October 2, 2019.

The Marx Brothers in ‘Hello, Dalí’

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 6, 2019October 6, 2019 Arts, Film, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Marx Brothers in ‘Hello, Dalí’: An unrealized surrealist film project known as ‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’ is rendered in comix, the latest of a century of Talmudic riffs on the disruptive Vaudevillian outsiders By J. Hoberman on the Tablet website on October 4, 2019.

‘Pain and Glory’ Review: Almodóvar’s Dazzling Art of Self-Creation

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 5, 2019October 5, 2019 Film

Click Here to Read: ‘Pain and Glory’ Review: Almodóvar’s Dazzling Art of Self-Creation Antonio Banderas plays a filmmaker in crisis in Pedro Almodóvar’s movie about loss, love, imagination and memory By Manohla Dargis in The New York Times on October 3, 2019.

The Lives of Others with Helen K. Gediman, Ph.D. at NYPSI

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 5, 2019October 5, 2019 EVENTS, Film

Brill Library Film Series Screening & Discussion of The Lives of Others with Helen K. Gediman, Ph.D. Screening & Discussion of The Lives of Others

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 7:00 – 10:00 pm The Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium 247 East 82nd Street, NYC General Admission – $10 All proceeds support the A.A. Brill Library Purchase Tickets
In 1984, Gerd Wiesler, secret-service Stasi operative of East Germany stalks, via videotape, the love and art of a couple whose sympathies lie with West Continue reading The Lives of Others with Helen K. Gediman, Ph.D. at NYPSI

Youth in revolt: Les Misérables—and other films: Made in Bangladesh, Mariam, Rocks, Desert One

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 3, 2019October 3, 2019 Film

Click Here to Read: Youth in revolt: Les Misérables—and other films: Made in Bangladesh, Mariam, Rocks, Desert One By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on October 2, 2019.