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Great News: All Summer Films are Now FREE with Suggested Donation!
To guarantee a seat, reserve your ticket online by noon on the day of the screening. Remaining tickets will be available in person on a first-come, first-served basis after 1 P.M. on the day of the screening.
This summer, join the Museum’s Film Club and see an outstanding selection of films. Become a Museum fan on Facebook and be part of interesting conversations after each screening. The next film in the series is Lebanon on July 19. With your film ticket stub, receive special discounts at participating businesses in lower Manhattan. Click here for discount information. >
Paid Ticket Refund
If you purchased a ticket to a film before this offer went into effect (June 2), you may request a refund, or put the cost of your ticket toward a Museum membership or another program. Visit or e-mail the box office at anytime before the film for which you have a ticket to make arrangements.
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Wednesday, May 12, 7 P.M.
Birthplace (Miejsce urodzenia)
(Poland, 1992, Betacam SP, 47 minutes, Polish with English subtitles)
Written and directed by Pawel Lozinski
Post-screening discussion with writer Henryk Grynberg, the subject of the film, interviewed by historian Joanna Michlic
Henryk Grynberg, a writer who is renowned for chronicling the fate of the Polish Jews, makes a rare public appearance at the screening of this captivating and poignant documentary about his quest to learn who killed his relatives in World War II. |
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Wednesday, June 2, 6:30 P.M.
A Serious Man
(U.S.A., 2009, 35mm, 105 minutes)
Written and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Post-screening discussion with Rabbi Irwin Kula, host of PBS’ Simple Wisdom, moderated by film critic Leonard Quart
Following the screening of the Coen Brothers’ enigmatic tale of a modern-day Job set in the 1970s, Rabbi Kula unravels this black comedy about an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe gone awry.
Free with suggested donation
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New York City Premiere
Wednesday, June 23, 6:30 P.M.
Surviving Hitler: A Love Story
(U.S.A., 2010, DigiBeta, 67 minutes)
Directed by John-Keith Wasson
This documentary chronicles the lives of two subversive German teenagers who fall in love amidst the July 1944 doomed plot to kill Hitler.
Free with suggested donation
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Wednesday, June 30, 6:30 P.M.
Saviors in the Night (Unter Bauern)
(Germany/France, 2009, 35mm, 100 minutes, German with English subtitles)
Directed by Ludi Boeken
The opening night pick of this year’s New York Jewish Film Festival, this is the riveting true story of how Marga Spiegel, her husband, and their young daughter were hidden by courageous farmers in southern Münsterland.
Free with suggested donation
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Monday, July 19, 6:30 P.M.
Lebanon
(Israel, 2009, 35mm, 93 minutes)
Post-screening discussion with director Samuel Maoz interviewed by film critic Leonard Quart
Filmed almost solely from inside a tank and through the gunsight, this film tells the story of four soldiers who find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Based on the director’s own experience during the war with Lebanon in 1982, the New York Times has called the Venice Film Festival winner “an astonishing piece of cinema.”
Free with suggested donation
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This preview film screening is made possible by Sony Pictures Classics. Film opens in theaters on August 6.
Questions for discussion:
1) How does Lebanon differ from other films that depict war such as Platoon or The Hurt Locker?
2) Is there a political critique of Israeli Mideast policies inherent in the film?
3) How are Israeli soldiers portrayed differently from combat soldiers in American films?
4) What is the function of art when dealing with charged and controversial political situations?
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Wednesday, July 21, 6:30 P.M.
Four Seasons Lodge
(U.S.A., 2008, DigiBeta, 101 minutes)
Directed by Andrew Jacobs with cinematography by Albert Maysles
"Gorgeously photographed...the awesome spectacle of life triumphing over annihilation." --The New York Times
An inspiring and startling documentary that follows a community of Holocaust survivors who come together each summer at their beloved bungalow colony in the Catskills to dance, cook, fight, flirt, and celebrate their survival.
Free with suggested donation
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Wednesday, July 28, 6:30 P.M.
Ajami
(Israel, 2009, DigiBeta, 120 minutes, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles)
Directed and written by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
2010 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film
Set in Jaffa’s multi-ethnic Ajami neighborhood--home to Jews, Muslims, and Christians--this contemporary crime drama examines the repercussions of a revenge killing that reveals the cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface.
Free with suggested donation
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Questions for discussion:
1) Does the film succeed in allowing the audience to enter the consciousness of the young Israeli Arabs? If so, how?
2) How does the film differ from or parallel American films that focus on the inner city in terms of violence, the police, and family relationships?
3) Does the film make moral judgments about the lives that are portrayed? Which character is the most sympathetic and why?
4) What do you think the filmmakers think about the political situation of the area? Do they come across as objective? Why or Why not?
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Tuesday, August 10, 6:30 P.M.
A Film Unfinished
(Germany/Israel, 2010, 35mm, 88 min., German/Hebrew/Polish/Yiddish with English subtitles)
Directed by Yael Hersonski
Post-screening discussion with Yael Hersonski moderated by Museum archivist Bonnie Gurewitsch
At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film was discovered in an East German archive. Filmed by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a reel that included staged scenes complicated earlier readings of the footage. The documentary A Film Unfinished presents the raw footage in its entirety, with expert commentary that carefully notes fictionalized scenes falsely showing “the good life” enjoyed by Jewish inhabitants of the ghetto, and illuminates the making of a now-infamous Nazi propaganda film.
Includes graphic film footage including some nudity.
Film opens in theaters August 18.
Free with suggested donation
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