Hosted by Bea Blumenfeld and Helane Hertz

November 12, 2009 - The 400 Blows Francois Truffaut's first feature-length film and the start of a notable series of semi-auto biographical works about his own troubled beginning. Born out of wedlock and neglected by his mother and stepfather, the Parisian youth in the film, like Truffaut, turns to a life of crime and deception and pays the consequences.
Room: CE-119 Time: 12:30-3:15pm

December 3, 2009 - Swept Away A film by director Lina Wertmuller about shifting power balances when the snobbish, arrogant wife of a rich man is accidentally marooned on a desert island with the deckhand she has persistently harassed and humiliated on her luxurious private yacht. Mixing comedy and drama, "Swept Away" offers a "no-holds-barred" depiction of the war of the sexes.
Room: CE-119 Time: 12:30-3:15pm

February 4, 2010 - The Battleship Potemkin Directed by the Great Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, this powerful film portrays the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin which helped to trigger the 1905 Russian Revolution in the port of Odessa. According to Leonard Maltin, film critic, the depiction of the bloody massacre on the staircase of that city is possibly the most famous movie scene of all time.

February 25, 2010 - The King of Masks A visually beautiful and exotic Chinese film set in 1930's Sichuan district about an elderly street performer who realizes he has no heir to whom he can pass on his ancient tradition and secrets. He purchases a child on the black market to train as a successor, a decision which results in surprising and unexpected consequences

March 18, 2010 - The Visitor A widower plods listlessly through his life as a college professor, bored and lonely. When he is requested to attend an academic convention in New York City, he finds his part-time apartment occupied by an immigrant couple with whom he unexpectedly forms a relationship which changes his life forever.