From Aug ’10 Spotlight:
Special Summer Screenings Continue
The Chicago YIVO Society will present two screenings of the new documentary In the Name of Their Mothers: The Irena Sendler Story as part of their 2010 Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture…
Four Seasons Lodge is an award-winning documentary about survivors who spend every summer at a Catskills bungalow colony. In over 25 years together, they have created an extended family structure that substitutes for, but never replaces, parents and siblings lost during the Holocaust. Filmmaker Andrew Jacobs blends clips from home movies with bucolic new footage shot under the direction of Albert Maysles. Four Seasons Lodge will screen three times August 8-11at the Gene Siskel Film Center on State Street. For tickets, visit: www.SiskelFilmCenter.org.
Finally, Todd Solondz’ new film Life During Wartime opens August 6 at the Music Box Theatre on Southport…