Tag: film

Films at the Museum: “Plunderer” Screening & Talkback

Plunderer is a feature-length documentary that focuses on the career of Bruno Lohse, a Nazi art dealer who served as Göring’s art agent in Paris and headed the ERR, the Nazis’ clearinghouse for confiscated art in France. Captured and...
Immigrant Stories Film Series: Pressure

Immigrant Stories Film Series: Pressure

Immigrant Stories is a collection of films that illustrate the immigrant experience as it progresses along the generations. Free popcorn will be...

Hitch

Hitch

Smooth-talking dating coach Alex “Hitch” Hitchens (Will Smith) makes a living helping lovelorn men find romance — until his own love story gets...

Films at the Museum: “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire” Screening and Talkback

Films at the Museum: “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire” Screening and Talkback

Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, we seek to understand the man behind Elie Wiesel’s searing and widely read memoir Night. Told...

“Defiant Requiem” Screening and Discussion

“Defiant Requiem” Screening and Discussion

In 1942, the Nazis established a unique ghetto/concentration camp outside Prague in an old army garrison known as Terezín, which the Germans renamed...

Films at the Museum: “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire” Screening and Talkback

Films at the Museum: “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire” Screening and Talkback

Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, we seek to understand the man behind Elie Wiesel’s searing and widely read memoir Night. Told...

“Children of Chabbanes” Screening and Discussion

“Children of Chabbanes” Screening and Discussion

In the spirit of Louis Malle’s Au Revoir les Enfants and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, the Emmy® Award-winning documentary The Children...

Immigrant Stories Film Series: An Autumn’s Tale

Immigrant Stories Film Series: An Autumn’s Tale

Immigrant Stories is a winter film series that illustrates the American experience as it progresses along the generations. Free popcorn will be...

Force of Evil

Force of Evil

Film screening: “Force of Evil” (1948) is Abraham Polonsky’s searing portrait of corruption and conscience in postwar New York. John Garfield...

Noirvember Film: The Breaking Point

Noirvember Film: The Breaking Point

Each November, movie fans celebrate the hallmark antiheroes, femme fatales, moral complexities, and the stunning black & white cinematography of...

Noirvember Film: The Narrow Margin

Noirvember Film: The Narrow Margin

Each November, movie fans celebrate the hallmark antiheroes, femme fatales, moral complexities, and the stunning black & white cinematography of...

“The Last Twins” Screening and Talkback

“The Last Twins” Screening and Talkback

“Heroism is presented less as a feat of preternatural bravery than a series of choices made by someone who simply refused to give up his...