Mondays at 7:30 PM
Harold Chapler’s popular film discussion series begins in October, featuring five not-to-be-missed films. Mr. Chapler will present background information before each screening and will lead an optional, short discussion afterward. Refreshments and light snacks will be available.
Oct 6: The Nazi Officer’s Wife
This film documents the extraordinary life of Edith Hahn, a Jewish law student in Vienna during the Nazi takeover. Ms. Hahn was sent to a ghetto and a slave labor camp, then escaped underground, where she scavenged for existence until a Christian friend offered Edith her own identity papers so she could flee to Munich and assume a new identity.
Oct 27: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Nominated for best director and best screenplay, this Woody Allen classic weaves a dramatic, yet comic, tale about an ophthalmologist, who persuades his brother with mob connections to kill a threatening mistress.
Nov 17: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
An unforgettable story about friendship and courage and dangerous circumstances that centers around a na?ve college student in 1987 Communist Romania, who enlists the help of a wiser, more experienced friend to end an unwanted pregnancy. Winner of the Palme d’Or and FIPRECI at Cannes.
Dec 8: Barbara
This impeccably-crafted Cold War thriller stars Nina Hoss as a Berlin doctor banished to a rural East-German hospital as punishment for applying for an exit visa. While there, she falls in love with the hospital’s head physician, despite fearing he is a spy. The film won for Best Director at this year’s Berlin Film Festival (Chris Petzold).
Jan 12: Brothers
A real-life who-done-it, directed by Errol Morris that follows the story of Randall Adams, who runs out of gas and is picked up by 16-yearold David Harris in a car he has recently stolen.
Fee per film: $5 JCC members, $7 nonmembers
Register for all 5 movies and save: Series $20 JCC members, $28 nonmembers
For further information and registration, visit the JCC website at www.jccotp.org or call the School of Performing Arts, 411 East Clinton Ave in Tenafly, at 201-408-1493.
