film

The Games They Played

A recent visit to Montreal found us at the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal Fortified with coffee and breakfast…

5 years ago

From Minty to Moses – the Extraordinary Fierce and Fearless Harriet Tubman

In September we heard Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Oprah Winfrey at the Apollo in NYC. The topic was his…

5 years ago

The Art of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

Two Sundays, two documentaries and two very satisfactory movie experiences. The first was Maiden at The Moviehouse in Millerton, NY.…

5 years ago

Ballad of the Three Spectres

In Ivor Gurney's nightmarish vision, the dead among the living bear dire warnings and mockery. Ballad of the Three Spectres…

7 years ago

The Masks

Watch The Masks written and directed by PDS student Haixu Liu - All American High School Film Festival Awards winner.…

12 years ago

Learning to Live (then going home for tea)

"So the children of a democracy learn to take their place in the world of tomorrow." The British Council has…

13 years ago

Blotting your copybook

That tweet from Gary Stager reminded me of this scene: Blotting your copybook used to be more than a figure…

13 years ago

The wild front ear

If blogging is supposed to have an element of timeliness then  I have given up on that ideal.  After all…

15 years ago

That was then: Are we “betraying most of our children”?

From: We are the people movie people This landmark independent documentary … explores the education system … and asks whether…

15 years ago

“The Class” – a film to look for

Teachers often take a jaundiced eye to films that claim to depict the classroom experience. It’s akin to being skeptical…

16 years ago

Just in time for curriculum evenings …

The world is moving at a tremendous rate. Going no one knows where. We must prepare our children, not for…

17 years ago

Everything’s Cool

It was a great day in the James Earl Jones theater at PDS yesterday. Dan Gold - a member of…

18 years ago

Boxes: Part 1

Why do I stand here? I stand on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly force ourselves to…

18 years ago