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Seminars, Lectures and Workshops

 

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.  

Lecture: Friday, February 8, 2008 7-9:30 PM        Podcast of recent KDHX interview  (Also at KDHX website)
Missouri History Museum (note different location)                                                                        Printable flyer of this event 
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URGENT MESSAGE FROM MOTHER:
GATHER THE WOMEN, SAVE THE WORLD

The Urgent Message that Jean Bolen carries to us is from Mother Earth, Mother archetype, mother instinct and the sacred feminine. It is a call to bring into consciousness and culture that which C.G. Jung called the “feminine principle”--which most women and some exceptional men embody. This way of being is characterized by an empathic response to suffering. Women as a gender, not every woman, but women generally, have a wisdom that is needed. Terrorism, wars, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, global warming and deterioration of the environment; domestic violence, bullying, trafficking in women and girls, and children who are traumatized and dying of preventable diseases are the toxic symptoms of a world without Mother. The grassroots women’s movement changed the world through consciousness and activism. Once again, this time through circles with a spiritual center--a critical mass, “millionth circle” tipping point--could change perception, move people to action, and save the world. 2 CEUs available. 
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Nonmembers: $30         Friends/Members: $25       Full-Time Students: $15

Workshop: Saturday, February 9, 2008, 9 AM-3:30 PM
Doors open at 8am for a light Continental breakfast (details below)
Missouri History Museum (note different location)
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LOVE VS. POWER: FROM FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY TO THE FATE OF THE EARTH

            We all come into world seeking to be loved and if we are not loved, we settle for power. Drawing from archetypal psychology, patterns emerge: trauma, neglect, and bullying, identifying with the aggressor, chronic victimization, emotional numbness and addictions. The roles are the authoritarian father, the disempowered feminine, and the neglected child—which play out within the psyche, in dysfunctional families, and in war and commerce. When Jean Shinoda Bolen tells us themes from the Grail Legend, the Abduction of Persephone, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle, these mythic stories come to life and provide insights into ourselves, dysfunctional family psychology and patriarchy. The missing feminine principle needs to be brought into the psyche, family and culture. Fierce compassion, tenderness, mother bear protectiveness, grandmother wisdom, “enough is enough” crone activism are qualities of an empowered feminine principle. All of these can be nurtured and supported in circles with a sacred center.
In this workshop, Jean will tell stories that reverberate in our psyches, lead a guided meditation and provide a small circle experience and information. She will encourage the formation of ongoing support and activist circles.
5 CEUs available.

You must register for this workshop by Friday the 8th; no registrations will be taken the "day of".
Includes a light Continental breakfast starting at 8am, continuing through the morning hours.
The 90 minute break for lunch is "on your own" (not included).
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Nonmembers: $100       Friends/Members: $90        Full-Time Students: $50

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco and an internationally known speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. She is the author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine and Urgent Message from Mother. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a former board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the International Transpersonal Association. She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing's "Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award", and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She appeared in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy Award-winning anti-nuclear proliferation film “Women--For America, For the World”, and the Canadian Film Board's “Goddess Remembered”. Her website is http://jeanbolen.com/

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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Sexuality & the Religious Imagination”
Presented by Bradley TePaske, Ph.D.

”What God joined together and religious traditions put asunder -- body, soul, and spirit -- TePaske reassembles, now consciously and with a therapist's care.”  - Murray Stein
In his lecture Dr. TePaske will present some beautiful religious and mythological images and texts for contemplation and re-interpretation in regard to sexuality, particularly the negative impact past interpretations have had on our society
as a whole.

Lecture: Friday, March 28, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)              Click on image for larger view
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church                    Collage by TePaske
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10

            The enchanted painting of Hieronymus Bosch (1453-1516) represents an enigmatic interpretive puzzle of Northern Renaissance art, a heretical response to the patriarchal religious establishment of the Late Medieval period, and an archetypal cartwheel across the sensual skin of the Great Mother. Employing detailed slides of the entire triptych, Dr. TePaske will explore Bosch’s religious milieu, his florid imagery, and his portrayal of the extremes of the senses in an earthly Paradise and the Low Countries’ most famous Hell. Depth psychological reflections on anima and Eros, the claims of Mother Earth, and the self as both body-imago and “inner world image” will compliment Bosch’s remarkable work and preview major themes of our guest’s recently published book, Sexuality and the Religious Imagination.

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Workshop: Sat., March 29, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $70; Others $80 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $40 (No Lunch)

            While the doctrine of the Incarnation is a fundamental Christian tenet, its deeper implications point directly to the religious significance of the body, human sexuality, and erotic love that patriarchal tradition invariably demeans. From a survey of this sex-negative moral purview and the roles of St. Paul and St. Augustine in creating it, Dr. TePaske will chart an open course of psychological reflection and mythological amplification that embraces Jewish, Christian, Gnostic, and pagan strands of our Western religious heritage with equanimity. The claims of Mother Earth, of sexual deities like those of the Graeco-Roman pantheon and the Underworld are thus considered with reference to Aphrodite and Sophia, the nymphs of Dionysus and Mary Magdalene, Hermes or Hades and the baleful black Devil of Christian lore. Focused on the central role of sex and gender in the individuation process, the seminar will bring archetypal and clinical perspective to a broad range of sexual phenomena, while concluding with summary reflections on the Bridal Chamber ritual of ancient Christian Gnosis.

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            Bradley A. TePaske, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, archetypal psychologist, and accomplished graphic artist. Author of Rape and Ritual: A Psychological Study, and a scholar of Gnosticism and the Graeco-Roman mystery religions, he has explored the relationship between sexuality and religion for over 25 years. He is currently in private practice in Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades, CA.

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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Archetypal Dreams as Spiritual Reality”
Presented by Jenny Yates, Ph. D

Special discount for the Friday night lecture:
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Lecture: Friday,  April 25, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10

            In this lecture I shall share archetypal dreams of the Black Madonna, Sophia/Shekinah and Tibetan Buddhism. The Black Madonna Dream occurred during a visit to the church of the Black Madonna in Switzerland. The dream of Sophia illustrates the link between female images of the Divine and a female image of the Self.  The Tibetan Buddhist dream led to my attending the ChalaChakra or Wheel of Time ritual led by the Dalai Lama.  The dreams illustrate Jung’s saying that at the depths of the unconscious we have access to the symbol systems of all the world’s religions, hence the Collective Unconscious.  This one world or “unus mundus’ could help us understand the unity in the midst of the diversity of religions and hopefully add to peace.

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Workshop: Sat., April 26, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $70; Others $80 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $40 (No lunch)

            This workshop will focus on the lack of female images of God and Self, in the context of the dreams of the female Self shared in the Friday lecture. Jung developed Sophia as the highest stage of a man’s anima but did not develop her as a female Self-image. This parallels the lack of female images of the divine in orthodox Judaic/Christian traditions. Mystical Judaism does develop the Shekinah and Gnostic Christians included Sophia. Participants will be asked to draw their own understanding of the relationship between God and the Self, which work will be used to discuss Jung’s understanding of the link between images of God and images of Self.

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            Jenny Yates, Ph. D. is currently a “Visiting Distinguished Scholar” at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she teaches Jungian Psychology and Religion. She practices as a Jungian analyst with alternative medicine practitioners. She chaired the dream session at the International Congress of Jungian Analysts in Cambridge, England, where she presented the Sophia dream. Dr. Yates is the author of four books, most recently Jung on Death and Immortality. She chaired the Division of Humanities and the Religion Major at Wells College, where she was a professor of Religion and Philosophy for twenty-seven years, has a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale, a Ph.D. from Syracuse, and is a diplomate of the Zurich Jung Institute. She is Vice President of the North Carolina Society of Jungian Analysts.

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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Psyche & the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Organized Religion”
Lionel Corbett, M.D.
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Lecture: Friday,  Friday, July 18, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $20; Others $25; Full-time Students $12.50

            Spiritual structures require periodic renewal.  When our spirituality cannot be contained within traditional institutions, there is an urgent need for new ways to articulate our experience of the sacred.  From within the depth of the psyche, a new image of the divine is emerging alongside and within traditional Judeo-Christian images.  Depth psychology gives us a language to articulate this emergence, allowing our experience of the sacred to be articulated without the need for recourse to traditional theology, doctrine or dogma.  This lecture describes an approach to spirituality based on personal experience of the sacred.

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Workshop: Sat., July 19, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $85; Others $95 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $47.50 (No lunch)

Morning Topic: “The Case of Job: A Psychological Approach to the Suffering of the Innocent”
            The story of Job raises eternal questions about the suffering of the innocent. In this workshop, Job will be considered as if he were a contemporary person undergoing a severe crisis. This crisis results from his severe losses, which activate important complexes. As a result of his suffering, Job experiences the numinosum in a way that is related to both his character structure and his cultural setting. Using the language of depth psychology, we will examine the ways in which his psychopathology, his character structure, and his God-image were affected by his experience of the numinosum. In the process, I will suggest a depth psychological approach to suffering and the notion of the dark side of the divine.

Afternoon Topic: “The Self as the Totality of Consciousness: Psychotherapy without Separateness”
            In this presentation, I will offer an alternative to the traditional notion that psychotherapy occurs between two individuals who produce an inter-subjective field. Instead, I will describe a larger perspective that sees no fundamental separation between therapist and patient. In this model of psychotherapy, both participants are manifestations of, and are contained within, a superordinate field of Consciousness. We are separate at the level of the ego and conventional reality, but at the deeper level of the transpersonal Self we are not divided. Each of us is a part of this Totality, and therapist and patient are simply meeting aspects of themselves. At this level, because we know ourselves as the other, there is no "I-Thou" distinction. This approach broadens our usual understanding of the therapeutic field, changes the therapist's view of his or her client, and builds a bridge between psychotherapy, depth psychology, and the contemporary views of consciousness that are emerging from within quantum physics.

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            Lionel Corbett, M.D., trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. His primary dedication has been to the religious function of the psyche, especially the way in which personal religious experience is relevant to individual psychology. He is the author of Psyche and the Sacred, and The Religious Function of the Psyche. He is co-editor, with Dennis Patrick Slattery, of Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold. He has also authored “Spirituality Beyond Religion”, a set of audiotapes published by Sounds True.

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Study Groups


Women Who Run With the Wolves – Part 1
Presented by Sheldon Culver

8 Thursdays (Mar. 6,13, 20, 27/ Apr. 3,10,24/ May 1)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Readings: Estes, Clarissa Pinkola; Women Who Run With the Wolves
Limited to 10 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends, $110; All others, $120 (16 CEUs)

            Too long we have suffered the forces and foci of patriarchal energies that often seem to dictate the decision-making of individuals and nations, to direct our attention away from the task of soul-making. While terrorism and war continue to condition the collective psyche, holding many communities hostage to fear, there are alternative ways of responding to these demonic powers, particularly through a richer understanding of the essential feminine instinct within us all.  Pinkola Estes' superb study of the Wild Woman archetype (the divine/instinctual feminine) in stories, myth and dream, invites the reader to explore a deeper Way--a way of personal revelation and self-reclamation.
            This group will discuss the first eight chapters of the text, engaging images of Psyche's journey that may help restore the feminine to its place in the balance of life. The remaining chapters of the book will be covered in a second group next season.
            Sheldon Culver is both a Jungian analyst with a private practice in St. Louis and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She trained as an analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Class limit of 10, held in a home in the Central West End. You may contact Sheldon at (636) 795-0750, or e-mail her at im4shadow@sbcglobal.net.

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Journey to Wholeness through Film:
Seeing the Twelve Steps
Presented by Francesca Ferrentelli and Mary Ryan

8 Tuesdays (Feb. 19/ Mar. 4, 18/ Apr. 1, 15, 29/May 13, 27)
6:30 – 8:30 P.M. (Note earlier start time)
Readings - not required
Limited to 20 registrants
The location for this study group has now been determined:
It will be held at St. Mary's Health Center (6420 Clayton Road) in Cafeteria "C". 
This is on the "ground level" of the main building.
Friends, $110; All others, $120 (16 CEUs)

             In 1961 Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, wrote Carl Jung thanking him for his critical, yet unknowing, role in the founding of AA. Bill W. reminded Jung of something he’d told a patient thirty years prior: that he might be hopeless against his drinking unless he “became the subject of a spiritual experience…a genuine conversion!” Jung’s powerful words moved this patient to retain sobriety and subsequently established the foundation for AA. Jung responded to Bill W. by saying that the craving for alcohol was equivalent to the spiritual thirst for wholeness. Jung reiterated that a spiritual experience is crucial for recovery. In this discussion group participants will explore this journey to wholeness through contemporary film. Joining together the 12 steps and the teachings of C.G. Jung, Mary Ryan and Francesca Ferrentelli will use film clips to elucidate the process, the goals, and the steps of the recovery journey. Class limit of 20, held at a location to be determined. You may contact Francesca at (314) 283-5664 or e-mail her at drcheska@sbcglobal.net.
            Francesca Ferrentelli is a psychotherapist, mythologist and storyteller. She received her doctorate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and her MA in Professional Psychology at Lindenwood College. Dr. Ferrentelli specializes in eating disorders, and lectures widely. She is the Program Manager of the Outpatient Behavioral Health Program at the St. Mary’s Health Center, has a private practice in Clayton, MO, and contracts as a therapist through the St. Alexius Hospital.
            Mary Ryan M.S. has been a licensed professional counselor for the past 23 years with a private practice in Springfield and Jacksonville, Illinois. She has taught classes at Illinois College and the University of Illinois- Springfield and conducted workshops for corporations and teachers’ institutes. Ms. Ryan currently facilitates a group for inmates in prison.

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Sandtray / Sandplay Therapy
Presented by Shirley Fontenot
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6 Mondays (Jan. 28/ Feb. 11/Mar. 3,17, 31/Apr. 21)
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. (Note Afternoon Time)
Limited to 6 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in University City.
Friends, $85; All others, $95 (12 CEUs) ---- FULL ----
Readings: Handouts will be provided by instructor
 

            Sandplay is a nonverbal, nonrational form of therapy in which small figures are selected and placed in the sandtray by the client to give concrete outer expression to internal experience, with the analyst as witness to this process.  The sandtray scene exists as both an outer and an inner reality and functions symbolically between both worlds.  The making of sandtray scenes can be understood as an embodied active imagination that can access and free repressed energy to flow in to create new channels in the promotion of psychological growth.
            Participants will be taught the theory and practice of sandtray therapy, and will look at the history and development of this expressive therapy within the context of Jungian theory.  However, because this form of therapy is learned through experience, experience will be the primary focus of the course.  For this reason, participants will have the opportunity to do actual sandtrays during the 6 class sessions.
            Shirley M. Fontenot, D. Min., a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Chicago and St. Louis.  Class limit of 6, held at an office in University City. You may contact Shirley Fontenot at (314) 726-0079.

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Fundamentals of Jungian Psychology
Taught by Rose F. Holt and Boris Matthews

Online Course
Begins January 21, 2008
Class limit of 25
Friends, $110.00; All others, $120.00 (16 CEUs)
Readings: All required readings will be posted on line

            This will be an introductory course covering major theoretical elements of Jungian Psychology: (1) Introduction – History and Overview; (2) Typology and Adaptation; (3) Structural Elements of the Psyche: Conscious/Unconscious; Ego Consciousness; Persona and Shadow; Self; (4) Complex Theory; (5) Collective Unconscious; (6) Archetypes; (7) Stages of Life; (8)Individuation.
            Students will be able to understand (1) Jung’s primary contributions to psychology, (2) The Jungian concept of personality type and its value for under-standing ourselves, our relationships and others, (3) Complex theory and its usefulness in changing problematic human behaviors, (4) Conflict within oneself and between self and others, (5) Archetypal motifs that underlie much of human behavior.
            No prior knowledge of Jungian psychology is required. This course is open to people in the helping professions and to lay persons. It is structured to give newcomers to Jung a solid, basic understanding. It will also appeal to those who have some understanding of Jung's thinking but would like to gain a more thorough and comprehensive overview of the subject.
            Class limit of 25.  The class requires 16 hours of reading and weekly online discussion to qualify for CEUs.  You may contact Rose Holt at (314) 726-2032 or e-mail her at roseholt@aol.com.
            Rose F. Holt, M.A. received her Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago in 2001. She is an analyst in private practice in St. Louis and Chicago and is active in the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago Analyst Training Program. She also serves as Advisory Analyst to the C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis. She has taught numerous courses in all facets of Jungian Psychology.  
            Boris Matthews, Ph.D. is a faculty member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago where he received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology in 1987. He has been board certified (1989) by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, and has practiced Analytical Psychology and Jungian Analysis since then in Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison. Dr. Matthews has translated numerous Jungian texts from German to English and is the co-author (with Ashok Bedi, M.D.) of Retire Your Family Karma. 

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Fairy Tales
Presented by Ellen Sheire

10 Mondays (Jan. 14, 28/Feb. 11,25/Mar. 10,24/Apr. 7, 21/ May 5, 19)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Class limit of 14
Readings: Von Franz, Marie-Louise, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales,
edition K. Crossen, Boston: Shambala Press, 1996.
Friends, $130; All others, $140 (16 CEUs)

            This study group will be reading Dr. von Franz’ revised and updated book which was originally published as “An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales”, 1970. According to the current publisher, of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Dr. von Franz teaches the reader distinguishing features of myths, fairy tales, legends, folk tales, etc. Using the archetypal fairy tale, she gives “rules of thumb techniques, and tools for “teasing out” or rendering deeper meanings hiding out in seemingly simple tales.
            Exposure to profound truths contained in fairy tales can reanimate one’s own nature. Late in life, Dr. Jung wrote (in Man and His Symbols) that nature has lost its symbolic meaning for people, thus a loss of “emotional unconscious identity” with natural phenomenon. Jung suggests that one way to reclaim this connection is through reading and studying fairy tales. Members in this study group will be given the opportunity to select a favorite fairy tale and use their newly learned interpretive skills to understand it more fully.
            Ellen Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1972. She has a private practice in St. Louis. Class limit of 14, held in a house in Kirkwood. You may contact Ellen at (314) 965-2549.

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Friday Night at the Movies

All movies are shown at the First Congregational Church
and start promptly at 7pm -- arrive early.

Fee: Nonmembers $10, Members $8, Full-Time Students $5
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Passion of Mind
Showing February 15
Facilitated by Shirley Fontenot

Synopsis from All Movie Guide:
"Demi Moore stars in this unusual psychological drama about two women caught between reality and imagination. Marie (Moore) is an American widow trying to raise two children under difficult circumstances in a small town in France. Marty (also played by Moore) is a successful businesswoman in New York City who wants to leave her busy life and lead a quieter existence in Europe. But Marty is just a product of Marie's imagination — or at least that's what Marie thinks. Marty, on the other hand, is convinced that Marie is just someone she dreamed up. Who is right? Or are both of them wrong? And where does it leave the men in their lives (Stellan Skarsgard and William Fichtner)? Passion of Mind was the first English-language film from French director Alain Berliner, best known for the arthouse success Ma Vie en Rose."  - (All Movie Guide)

A Question of Silence
Showing March 14
Facilitated by Rose Holt

Synopsis from All Movie Guide:
"Housewife Edda Barends, waitress Nelly Frijda and secretary Henriette Tol have but one thing in common: murder. Acting virtually on impulse, the three women kill a male store owner who has caught Barends shoplifting. Psychiatrist Cox Habbema is engaged to prove that the women are insane so that they can avoid being sent to prison. A few sessions later, however, Habbema has cast her lot with the killers! The moral seems to be that murder is justified so long as it stems from dissatisfaction with the entire Male population. One would think that Question of Silence (originally released in the Netherlands as De Stilte Rond Christine M...) would be rejected out of hand by the largely male Dutch Film Finance Corporation. Instead, the Corporation was so enthusiastic over writer/director Marleen Gorris' project proposal that it put up all the production money." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

 

Antonia's Line
Showing April 11
Facilitated by Sheldon Culver

Synopsis from All Movie Guide:
"A strong-willed Dutch woman recalls her life in this uplifting picture that won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy) is an elderly woman who wakes up one morning and realizes that this is the last day of her life. She begins to tell her story in flashback, beginning with her arrival home to the family farm after World War II with her daughter, Danielle (Els Dottermans). For the next fifty years, a variety of colorful characters come and go on the farm. Danielle becomes a painter, and decides she wants a child but no husband, so Antonia arranges the proper donation. Danielle giving birth to Therese (Veerle van Overloop), who laters has her own child, Sarah (Thyrza Ravesteijn), also without virtue of a husband. Antonia and her descendants come to symbolize the freedom of independent females, with little need for men in their lives."  - (All Movie Guide)

Click
Showing May 9
Facilitated by Ellen Sheire

Synopsis from All Movie Guide:
"The architect Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) has a typical middle-class family with his lovely and gorgeous wife Donna (Kate Beckinsale) and their son Ben and daughter Samantha, and a constant visit of his parents. However, Michael is workaholic and under stress, trying to satisfy his boss with overwork and get a partnership in his company, giving priority to his work and neglecting the family issues. When the tired Michael goes to a department store to buy an universal remote control, he rests on a bed and he meets the weird salesman Morty (Christopher Walken) that offers him a remote control capable of controlling his own universe. Michael uses too much and loses the control of the device, having his own life controlled by the remote control. Then Michael sees the worthwhile parts of his personal life he missed while working, and in the end of his life he lately concludes that the family comes first."  - (Claudio Carvalho , Internet Movie Database)

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