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Big Screen, Big Crucibles VIII: The Monuments Men

Big Screen, Big Crucibles VIII: The Monuments Men In this final episode of our summer series, BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, we discuss the crucibles and the overcoming of them in THE MONUMENTS MEN. That’s the name given during WWII to the ragtag team of art historians and curators who form a unit to recover stolen […]

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Big Screen, Big Crucibles IV: Les Misérables

Everyone in the movie experiences a crucible, but those who receive and then extend mercy and forgiveness to others are the ones who find lives of significance. Those too rigid to see the best in others, or in themselves — like the prison guard and policeman Javert — wind up — as one of the American translations of the film’s title puts it — The Miserable Ones.

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Big Screen, Big Crucibles 2: Hidden Figures

The three African-American women at the center of HIDDEN FIGURES, the second film in our summer series BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, face marginalization and discrimination for their gender and their race in 1961. But they summon grit, fortitude and brilliance that prove critical to the U.S winning the Space Race against the Russians.

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