How ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ took Jessica Chastain down a rabbit hole of Jewish history

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 27, 2017July 5, 2018 Books, Movies

Click Here to Read: How ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ took Jessica Chastain down a rabbit hole of Jewish history BY Naomi Pfefferman in the Jewish Journal on March 22, 2017.

Freud and Jung: A Meeting of Minds

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 28, 2017July 5, 2018 Books, Movies

Click Here to Read: Freud and Jung: A Meeting of Minds: As David Cronenberg reveals he is to make a film about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Arifa Akbar analyses the relationship between psychiatry’s biggest brains on the Independent website on February 27, 2010.

Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 23, 2017July 5, 2018 China, Movies

Click Here to Read: Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall: Issues bound up with a major Chinese film production By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on February 23, 2017.

Here’s Looking at You, Kid

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 20, 2017July 5, 2018 Movies

Click Here to Read: Here’s Looking at You, Kid: As the Hollywood studio classic turns 75, a ‘delightful’ new history, ‘We’ll Always Have Casablanca,’ tells all about how a bunch of Jewish refugees made a great movie about Jewish refugees escaping the Nazis By David Mikics on the Tablet Website on February 14, 2017.

Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta: A mother and daughter … and what else?

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 16, 2017July 5, 2018 Movies

Click Here to Read: Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta: A mother and daughter … and what else? By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on February 16, 2017.

Here’s Looking at You, Kid

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 15, 2017July 5, 2018 Movies

Steve Bannon Wanted Mel Gibson for His Movie About Nazis, Abortion, ‘Mutants’

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 9, 2017July 5, 2018 Movies

Click Here to Read: Steve Bannon Wanted Mel Gibson for His Movie About Nazis, Abortion, ‘Mutants’: In 11 pages, the cautionary tale about arrogant scientists tampering with divine design covers Eden, Hitler, mutants, immortality, and the ‘most radical ideology in history.’by Asawin Suebsaeng on The Daily Beast website on February 9. 2017.

Lion: A former homeless child searches for his town

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 3, 2017July 5, 2018 Movies

Click Here to Read: Lion: A former homeless child searches for his town By George Morley on the World Socialist Web Site on February 3, 2017.

Austen Riggs Center February 2017 News and Events

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 2, 2017July 5, 2018 Announcements, Movies

February 2017 News & Events
Upcoming Events

Special Screening
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
February 4, 6:00 p.m.

The Erikson Institute is co-sponsoring a special advanced screening of the film An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story. The film portrays Niebuhr as the most celebrated theologian of the twentieth century and features interviews with President Jimmy Carter, Andrew Young, David Brooks, Cornell West, Susannah Heschel, and more. Following the film, there will be a Continue reading Austen Riggs Center February 2017 News and Events

Martin Scorsese’s Silence and Ben Affleck’s Live by Night: Punishment and crime

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 30, 2017July 6, 2018 Movies

Click Here to Read: Martin Scorsese’s Silence and Ben Affleck’s Live by Night: Punishment and crime
By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist website on January 20, 2017.