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The Deadly Contempt of the Profit Motive—Shown in Films

The film studies series “If It Moves, It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema! Taught by Ken Kimmelman, will feature:

July 24th, 6-8 PM: “The Deadly Contempt of the Profit Motive—Shown in Films”
Films will include: All My Sons, A Civil Action, The Whistleblower, Silkwood, The Rainmaker, Class Action

This series shows how the art of the cinema, in its technique and meaning, and in all its diversity—from slapstick to spectacle, cinema verité to the fantastic, tragedy to comedy—is a oneness of the permanent opposites in reality: “All beauty,” stated Eli Siegel, “is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

Whenever a film is good or beautiful it is because it puts opposites together—rest and motion, light and dark, space and time, nearness and distance, continuity and discontinuity, unity and variety, freedom and order—the same opposites we are trying to make sense of in our lives.











When: Wed., Jul. 24, 2019 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene St.
212-777-4490
Price: $12
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The film studies series “If It Moves, It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema! Taught by Ken Kimmelman, will feature:

July 24th, 6-8 PM: “The Deadly Contempt of the Profit Motive—Shown in Films”
Films will include: All My Sons, A Civil Action, The Whistleblower, Silkwood, The Rainmaker, Class Action

This series shows how the art of the cinema, in its technique and meaning, and in all its diversity—from slapstick to spectacle, cinema verité to the fantastic, tragedy to comedy—is a oneness of the permanent opposites in reality: “All beauty,” stated Eli Siegel, “is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

Whenever a film is good or beautiful it is because it puts opposites together—rest and motion, light and dark, space and time, nearness and distance, continuity and discontinuity, unity and variety, freedom and order—the same opposites we are trying to make sense of in our lives.

Buy tickets/get more info now