Ken Kimmelman, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant, says about this upcoming class in his course “If It Moves, It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema:
Some of the greatest acts of valor in history were those of the men and women of the Resistance in World War II. They were persons passionately against the horrific evil of fascism. There are films about the Resistance that are art—stirring and unforgettable. These present the struggle of good and evil, courage and cowardice, triumph and defeat with a composition that is at once honest and beautiful. And they have one feel that, in Eli Siegel’s words, “good is also powerful. Good also has its metal and its speed.”
Some of the films I’ll be discussing are: The Army of Shadows, Sophie Scholl, Battle of the Rails