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Conversations on Essential Cinema: The Graduate

In line with our commitment to serving you during this time of crisis, in a new and exciting effort to bring you entertaining commentary on films we feel everyone should see and know about, we have launched FOLCS’ Conversations on Essential Cinema: A Virtual Film Club. Watch a classic movie and then hear a film critic or scholar discuss the film in an online Conversation.

The Graduate (1967) will be the focus of FOLCS’ next Virtual Film Club.

The Oscar-winning classic stars Dustin Hoffman in his breakout role as a college graduate who, in the midst of struggling to find his purpose and direction, has an affair with an older woman (Anne Bancroft). The film captures the confusion and uncertainty that characterized the youth of the 1960s, expressing the dark side of the counterculture movement. What do we “graduate to” when the foundations and mores of society are as superficial as “plastic”? The Graduate is a testament to the fear all generations share of getting older. It is a film rich enough to define the social upheavals of the ’60s and still matter today.











When: Mon., Jul. 20, 2020 at 8:00 pm
Where: NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square S.
212-998-6040
Price: Free
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In line with our commitment to serving you during this time of crisis, in a new and exciting effort to bring you entertaining commentary on films we feel everyone should see and know about, we have launched FOLCS’ Conversations on Essential Cinema: A Virtual Film Club. Watch a classic movie and then hear a film critic or scholar discuss the film in an online Conversation.

The Graduate (1967) will be the focus of FOLCS’ next Virtual Film Club.

The Oscar-winning classic stars Dustin Hoffman in his breakout role as a college graduate who, in the midst of struggling to find his purpose and direction, has an affair with an older woman (Anne Bancroft). The film captures the confusion and uncertainty that characterized the youth of the 1960s, expressing the dark side of the counterculture movement. What do we “graduate to” when the foundations and mores of society are as superficial as “plastic”? The Graduate is a testament to the fear all generations share of getting older. It is a film rich enough to define the social upheavals of the ’60s and still matter today.

Buy tickets/get more info now