Tuesday, November 10, 7:00 pm in Benson Great Hall
Discussion to follow.

EVERLASTING MOMENTS
Sweden, 2008

Jan Troell, the widely respected Swedish director, returns to the early 1900s—an era of social change and unrest, war and poverty.  A young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery.  The camera grants her the eyes to view the world, and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children as well as an alcoholic, womanizing, and sometimes violent, although ultimately loving, husband.  The film itself exemplifies the power of images it extols. (132 minutes)

ifcfilms.com/films/everlasting-moments

“…an extraordinary film about a brave and creative working-class housewife who keeps her soul alive through learning the art of photography…  The drama charts her resiliency in the face of staggering odds and setbacks as her creativity shines and gives her a keen sense of personal satisfaction and fulfillment.” (Frederic and Maryann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice)

“Beholding Troell’s exquisite images is like having your eyes washed, the better to behold moving pictures of uncorrupted purity and clarity.” (Todd McCarthy, Variety)

Tues., Nov. 10
10:15-11 a.m.
BU Library Fireside Lounge.

Primetime @ BU Library Presents Edgren Scholars: Adam Johnson and Zachary Varberg.  Edgren Scholars Assistant Professor of Psychology Adam Johnson and Senior Computer Science major Zachary Varberg present "Understanding the utility of different memory systems using reinforcement learning."  This presentation is sure to be memorable!

From embedded journalism in Iraq to the evolution of the sports pages, from weblogs to the Wall Street Journal--on your TV, computer, or in your local paper, the mass media is everywhere, framing your understanding of the world around you, giving you a picture of places, events, people you would never otherwise know. 

Good library research has always paid off for students.  Now, however, it also can literally pay, in the form of the Friends of the Library's $250 Prize for Library Research.