Two Holocaust Remembrance Events @ Cinema Arts Centre

Vic Skolnick Sunday Schmooze: Brunch, Film & Discussion

Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sunday, April 27th

The Lady in Number 6 & One Survivor Remembers

Bagel brunch 10 am, films at 11 am 

The Lady in Number 6: Music Changed My Life is an inspirational and uplifting story. As the world’s oldest pianist and Holocaust survivor, 109 year-old Alice Herz Sommer shares her views on how to live a long and happy life. (She died recently at 110.) She discusses music, laughter and how to remain optimistic come what may. The film features beautiful photographs and rare film footage that truly brings Alice’s extraordinary story to life. The 2014 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Short, it is showing with One Survivor Remembers, the 1996 winner in the same category: Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on a journey of survival. At age 16, Klein’s comfortable life was shattered by the Nazi invasion of Poland. She and her family were sent to a series of concentration camps, but she was the only one to survive. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, HBO and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum produced this moving and eloquent film. Klein’s story is gracefully told as an example of the strength of the human spirit in the face of one of the most devastating events in human memory. Hosted by Holocaust educator Fred Craden, the two films screen in the Vic Skolnick Sunday Schmooze series on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sunday, April 27^th, with brunch at 10 am and films at11am, followed by discussion at Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington, NY. 631-423-7611 www.CinemaArtsCentre.org 

http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/event/the-lady-in-number-6-one-survivor-remembers/

$10 Members / $15 Public / Includes brunch. Advance tickets recommended. Tickets can be purchased online, www.CinemaArtsCentre.org at the box office during theater hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 

Wednesday, April 30th at 7:30 pm

Diamonds of the Night

An escape of two young concentration camp prisoners through the woods of the Sudetenland and the ensuing hunt for them, Jan Nemec’s surreal 1964 Czech masterpiece comes closer to the truth of human experience than many works of realism. “Diamonds of the Night” will screen in a newly struck archival 35mm print, hosted by Holocaust educator Fred Craden, on Wednesday, April 30th at 7:30 pm, at Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington, NY. 631-423-7611 www.CinemaArtsCentre.org 

$10 Members / $15 Public / Includes reception. Tickets can be purchased online, www.CinemaArtsCentre.org at the box office during theater hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006

 http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/event/diamonds-of-the-night/

“Nemec purposefully scrambles past and present, handheld realism and Buñuellian surrealism. It’s a torrent of life — and cinema — in the face of death.” – Time Out New York

Believing that the director must create “a personal style” and “a world independent of reality as it appears at the time”, Jan Nemec employed this philosophy in Diamonds of the Night, which follows an escape of two young concentration camp prisoners through the woods of the Sudetenland and the ensuing hunt for them. Employing devices of ‘pure cinema,’ Nemec depicts the state of a distressed human mind, moving freely between the present, dreams and flashbacks. This surreal masterpiece comes closer to the truth of human experience than many works of realism.