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Leo Hurwitz Essay on Death In Memory of JFK

LEO HURWITZ
ESSAY ON DEATH
IN MEMORY OF JFK 1964

December 11, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

“A very dangerous and uncertain world, the President said on that last day” Leo Hurwitz’s Essay On Death (Watch Film) speaks to death’s randomness. Of course, JFK’s murder wasn’t random, but the fact that death can come out of nowhere at any time means we live constantly with the fragility of life. At the same …

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ESSAY ON DEATH
IN MEMORY OF JFK 1964
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri Where Does the Buck Stop?

THREE BILLBOARDS
OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
How Does The Buck Finally Stop?

December 7, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic and deeply painful Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri gives us a tough look at how anger and blame is one (ineffective) way of trying to handle very difficult feelings. We have Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), a bereaved mom: hardened, blunt, feeling uncharacteristically helpless, and furious about it. The town’s much loved …

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OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
How Does The Buck Finally Stop?
Leo Hurwitz's Here At The Water's Edge Seeing

LEO HURWITZ
HERE AT THE WATER’S EDGE 1961
Seeing What Needs To Be Seen

December 4, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Leo Hurwitz’s film, Here At The Water’s Edge (Watch Film), features the 1960 New York City’s waterfront. Made with photographer Charles Pratt, the film is a cinematic poem to the people who work on the water. Pratt, who largely financed the film, made it possible for Leo to use his vision as an artist and …

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HERE AT THE WATER’S EDGE 1961
Seeing What Needs To Be Seen
Leo Hurwitz's Film The Museum and the Fury 1957 on the dangers of fascism

LEO HURWITZ’S
THE MUSEUM AND THE FURY 1956
Remember The Dangers Of Fascism

November 27, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Let’s remember the threats of fascism. Forgetting is a very dangerous thing. And, Leo Hurwitz’s film, The Museum and The Fury 1956,  shows us why. Yet we do forget when we don’t want to see what exists on our own soil. Leo’s 1948 film Strange Victory details the seeds for fascism in America: racism, antisemitism, and …

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THE MUSEUM AND THE FURY 1956
Remember The Dangers Of Fascism
Leo Hurwitz's The Young Fighter How it Inspired The Rise of Cinema Verite

LEO HURWITZ’S
THE YOUNG FIGHTER
How the Film Inspired
The Rise of Cinéma Vérité

November 20, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

This Piece on The Young Fighter Written By Manfred Kirchheimer. Edits By Tom Hurwitz The first tape recorders were stolen from the Nazis. Enter John T. Mullin and Bing Crosby. Just after the Allies’ victory in Europe, Mullin was investigating a rumored secret German radio-wave ray for the US Army. He came up dry on …

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THE YOUNG FIGHTER
How the Film Inspired
The Rise of Cinéma Vérité
Leo Hurwitz's The Young Fighter - Who Does Ray Drake Belong To?

LEO HURWITZ
THE YOUNG FIGHTER 1953
Who Does Ray Drake Belong To?

November 20, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

The Young Fighter (Watch film) begins with a tough Brooklyn narrator’s voice. Tough as the boxing world is tough, tough as Ray Drake’s manager and trainer are tough; tough as the decision Ray Drake had to make. Would he become the Champ his manager and trainer were bent on making or the family man he …

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THE YOUNG FIGHTER 1953
Who Does Ray Drake Belong To?
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