Pace University Professor Emeritus Walter Srebnick returns to lead a course on “Film Melodrama,” a major form of film associated with plot twists, heightened emotion, personal crises, and intense but sympathetic protagonists.
Film course: Dates and films to be discussed are:
Sept. 10— Irving Rapper, Now, Voyager (1942): Love, sacrifice, transcendence.
Sept. 17— Michael Curtiz, Mildred Pierce (1945): Ambition, family, marriage, motherhood.
Sept. 24— Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life (1959): Ambition, love, motherhood, friendship, race.
Oct. 1— Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven (2005): Love, race, sexuality.
The films will be shown in the Gathering Room a week ahead of each class. Look for sign-up sheets in your cubby in early August.
Put that on your calendar as film courses are something our movie-interested residents rarely want to miss.