| Theme: HISTORY OF MEDICINE |
| Jan 2019 The Midwife (2017) A French movie about changing relationships, and changing times in a medical environment. |
Feb 2019 Dead Ringers (1988) A psychological thriller about twin gynecologists who descend into madness. |
Mar 2019 Facing Darkness (2017) Fighting an Ebola epidemic in Liberia, two medical team members become infected themselves. The movie documents an historic event — Ebola patients evacuated to the US for treatment and cure. |
| Apr 2019 Yellow Jack (1938) The story of a group of doctors and scientists, Dr. Walter Reed among them, who travel to Cuba after the Spanish-American War hoping to find a cure for “yellow fever,” a hemorrhagic virus ravaging the population there. |
May 2019 Eugenics Crusade: The American Experience (2013) A documentary that chronicles the Eugenics Movement in the US, the result of concepts of human heredity that were developed in the 19th and early-20th centuries. |
| Theme: TECHNOLOGIES OF FILM |
| Sep 2019 Day for Night (1973) A French director struggles with crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew, as he tries to shoot his film. Francois Truffaut is director of the film, and also stars as Ferrand, the director. |
Oct 2019 The 400 Blows (1959) One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it is the story of Antoine Doinel, an adolescent in Paris who struggles with his parents and teachers because of his rebellious behavior. It is François Truffaut’s debut as director. |
Nov 2019 Finding Vivian Maier (2013) An amazing story about John Maloof’s discovery of Vivian Maier — through her documentary films, photographs, and people who knew her. |
