Expand your ability to understand and enjoy films by sharpening your skills in analyzing characters, plot, and acting.

Soul-fueling films have been produced in all genres and eras of movie-making, but many of the best are not widely recognized as such.

Guided by literature expert and philosopher Dr. Andrew Bernstein, you’ll discuss and analyze four excellent, yet very different films:

• Notorious (1946), a suspense thriller
• Inherit the Wind (1960), a philosophic courtroom conflict
• How the West Was Won (1962), a Western epic
• A Most Violent Year (2014), a story about a morally upright man’s struggle to succeed in a corrupt industry.

Come immerse yourself in superb cinematic art; discuss the characters, plot, theme, acting, and dialogue with other active-minded participants; deepen your understanding and enjoyment of these four films; and get more out of films forever after.

Meet Your Instructor

Andrew Bernstein

Andrew Bernstein holds a PhD in philosophy from the Graduate School of the City University of New York and taught philosophy for many years at Marist College. He is the author of Heroes, Legends, Champions: Why Heroism Matters; Capitalism Unbound: The Incontestable Moral Case for Individual Rights; Capitalist Solutions; Why Johnny Still Can’t Read or Write or Understand Math: And What We Can Do About It; and myriad articles for The Objective Standard.