Category: Film

Movies Monday: Ida
By Categories: Film

Click Here to Read: ‘It You Could Lick My Heart it Would Poison You’ Is Pawel Pawlikowski’s new film ‘Ida’ the Polish answer to ‘Aftermath,’ or a story of Jewish suffering and sacrifice? By J. Hoberman on the Tablet website on April 30, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Culture Desk: “Ida”: A Film Masterpiece By David Denby on the New Yorker on May 27, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Ida Reviewed by Godfrey Cheshire on the Roger Ebert Website on May 2, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  An Innocent Awakened: ‘Ida,’ About an Excavation of Truth in Postwar Poland By A. O. Scott in The New York Times on May 1, 2014. Continue reading Movies Monday: Ida

The Hollywood Directors Who Filmed the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
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Click Here to Read:   The Hollywood Directors Who Filmed the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps: George Stevens, John Ford, and Samuel Fuller, best known for their work in Hollywood, all documented the Allied liberation at the end of the war by Dan Schindel1 on the HyperAllergic.com website on February 22, 2018.

Young and old survivors in Dachau cheer approaching U.S. troops. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #45075 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Movies Monday: Critical Mothers and Provocative Daughters
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Click Here to Read: Critical Mothers and Provocative Daughters: How History Plays Its Part In Problems Loving and Letting Go
by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on the Characters on the Couch website on February 18, 2018.

Click Here to Read:  Greta Gerwig’s ‘Lady Bird’ Is Big-Screen Perfection By A.O. Scott in The New York Times on October 31, 2017.

Click Here to Read:  Greta Gerwig: My Mother, My City By Greta Gerwig in the New York Times on January 4, 2018.

Click Here to Read:  Greta Gerwig’s Exquisite, Flawed “Lady Bird” By Richard Brody in The New Yorker on November 2, 2017. Continue reading Movies Monday: Critical Mothers and Provocative Daughters

Searching for the Roots of Empathy in Rituals of Care
By Categories: Arts, Film

Click Here to Read:  Searching for the Roots of Empathy in Rituals of Care: In Kerry Tribe’s video we see both actors playing patients and medical students acting as though they were doctors, but the aim is for something real: empathy by Emily Wilson on the HyperAllergic website on February 8, 2018.

Photo: Pepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons