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Freud’s Last Session

Drama Rated: PG-13 108 min
Showing: Thursday, March 21 7:00pm

Did the great Sigmund Freud and author and Oxford academic C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) ever meet? Probably not, but as this stage play-to-film adaptation invites, wouldn’t they have had a wild conversation if they did?  The play and film set the action in September 1939, just after Hitler has invaded Poland. Freud, an avowed atheist, is dying of oral cancer. What he wants to know from Lewis is how someone of his credentialed intellect could still believe in God. But that’s not all they talk about. Freud can’t help but dig into Lewis’ fixations, and vice versa. The writer and the psychoanalyst spar over the petty and the deeply personal, the mundane and life’s grandest questions. Hopkins’ portrayal of an older, doubting Lewis in Shadowlands (1993) also informs his fascinating turn as Freud.

“Just when you think you know everything Hopkins can do, he digs down and comes up with something new.” — Mike LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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Three New Directors Elected to the Crandell Theatre Board

The Crandell Theatre Board of Directors approved three new members to the Crandell board at its January annual meeting: John T. Lillis, a retired tax attorney; Mirissa Neff, a documentary filmmaker; and Carol Sadlon, the former owner of Cinerom cinemas and Millerton’s The Moviehouse. According to Crandell Board President Lydia Kukoff, “This is such an exciting moment for the Crandell. As we get closer to the full renovation of our beloved theater, we are delighted to welcome John, Mirissa, and Carol to our extraordinary board. They bring with them a wealth of talent and expertise that will further enrich our thinking and planning for the future.” John T. Lillis John T. Lillis retired as partner of White & Case LLP, a New York City law firm, in 2019. During his 39-year tenure at the firm, he focused on the tax…

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