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The Life Stages Film Forum is about life as it is interpreted by movies. We meet on Saturday afternoons in a classroom setting to watch a cinematic masterpiece. The movie screenings are followed by a lively group discussion. Make new friends with fellow movie lovers. We will be watching and … [Read more...] about Life Stages Film Forum

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) How should one go about rating movies? Did the movie make you cry? Are you still thinking about the movie several days after watching it? Do you want to watch the movie a second time? These are all valid tests that I have applied at … [Read more...] about Greatest Films of All Time

Costume design in film demands a heightened awareness of all the stylistic nuances that bring a time period or character to life. A character who is deeply individual in her moral and intellectual life, for example, may choose to dress like everyone else because she doesn’t care enough about how she … [Read more...] about Costume Design in Film

The artist (or film director) observes the world, filters his observations through his unique way of looking at things, and then expresses his thoughts and feelings by creating art. Pablo Picasso's famous mural Guernica, for example, is a raw and emotionally direct tribute to the … [Read more...] about Art and Trauma in Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour

Michel de Montaigne Philosopher and Essayist 1533 - 1592 The following words are carved into a ceiling beam in Montaigne's home: I am human and consider nothing human alien to me. Montaigne coined the word "essay," meaning "attempt" or … [Read more...] about Humanism