The Catskills Now and Then: New Film About Catskill Mountains "Four Seasons Lodge" : EXTENDED : Read More Now

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A Paradise Off Route 17: The Catskills Then and Now

The Catskills Institute is pleased to let you know that "Four Seasons Lodge," the award-winning documentary about an Ellenville bungalow colony made up entirely of Holocaust survivors, has been extended for at least another week at the Quad Cinema on W. 13th Street in Greenwich Village. The director, Andrew Jacobs, will be doing Q&A's this weekend after the screenings. Showtimes are 1:00 3:00 5:30 7:25 9:50. To buy tickets, go to the theater's website at http://www.quadcinema.com. If you have any other questions, write directly to Andrew at [e-mail].



“Four Seasons Lodge,” is the award-winning documentary about a bungalow colony made up of Holocaust survivors, followed by a lively discussion about Catskills nostalgia, mink coats in July and the quest for an American-Jewish utopia in the mountains of upstate New York.

The film’s director, Andrew Jacobs, will be joined by Tania Grossinger, author of “Growing up at Grossinger’s,” and Rachel Kranson, a writer and historian of the Jewish Catskills.



The film will screen at the IFC Center , at 6th Avenue and Waverly Place, at 3 pm followed by refreshments and a 45-minute chat around the corner at the Cornelia Street Cafe. Tickets for the film and the post-screening event cost $20. To reserve a seat, call 212-343-2011 or email Andrew Jacobs at [e-mail]. To watch the trailer and learn more about the film, click www.fourseasonsmovie.org/trailer.html


ABOUT THE FILM

In an inspiring and startling documentary, a remarkable tribe whose members are fast disappearing come together for one final summer in the Catskill Mountains, where they cook, gamble, fight, flirt, and dance - they’re Holocaust Survivors with a captivating joie de vivre and a bracing sense of humor.

From the darkness of Europe's death camps to the lush mountains of New York's Catskills, FOUR SEASONS LODGE portrays the final season for a community of Holocaust survivors who come together each summer to celebrate their lives. Directed by New York Times journalist Andrew Jacobs, beautifully photographed by a team of cinematographers including Albert Maysles (GIMME SHELTER, GREY GARDENS), FOUR SEASONS LODGE is a counterintuitive film about the Holocaust, one that captures the Lodgers' intoxicating passion for living, in bracing contrast to lives harrowed by loss. The documentary is about tightly bonded friendships and the quest for inner peace in spite of haunting memories, as experienced through compelling people and the richness of their intensely close lives. As one of them tells us, "We live with the past, and hope for a good future. When you compare the good times to the bad, we came out winners."

In 2005, Andrew Jacobs wrote about this Shangri-La as part of a series on Catskills summer life. Astounded by their spirit, energy and wit, he wanted to do justice to these remarkable people, their raucous poker games, intoxicating laughter and dancing that goes on till dawn. FOUR SEASONS LODGE, moving and surprisingly funny, is the last chance to visit a vanishing world and discover the men and women who trumped Hitler's Final Solution.

"This is our revenge on Hitler. To live this long, this well, is a victory."
- Fran Lask, 82, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen

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