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ANALYTIC FILM NIGHT at WCSPP
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WCSPP’s Film Committee invites you as our guests to our winter event, a film screening of “My Life As A Dog” with discussion led by Robby Gaines and Barbara Messer.

This film, released in 1988, was widely hailed as a work of tremendous depth, probing a child’s life experience in the face of his mother’s untimely illness and death, already having been left by his father. Slowly learning the ways of people and the pain of loss, he comes to understand and survive, ultimately finding, in a network of relationships, the means to anchor himself in a more grown-up Continue reading ANALYTIC FILM NIGHT at WCSPP

The truth about Zero Dark Thirty: This torture fantasy degrades us all
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Click Here to Read:   The truth about Zero Dark Thirty: this torture fantasy degrades us all:  Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s film claims to be ‘based on a true story’ but no non-fiction writer could take such liberties by Michael Wolff on the guardian.co.uk website on December 24, 2012.

Jessica Chastain’s character in the new film Zero Dark Thirty is reputedly based on the CIA analyst known as ‘Jen’. Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex Features