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Bryn Mawr Film Institute: Cinema Classics Seminar: DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978)

When:

July 23, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Where:

Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 West Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA

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Philadelphia Gay News Events

Thursday, July 23, 2026, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm Instructor: Alan Singer, Ph.D., Temple University \(emeritus\) A film that reinvigorates the visual sense with every frame, Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven \(1978\) is frequently read as a biblical allegory of sin and repentance set against the backdrop of an early 20th-century American pastoral. And yet the film completely undoes allegory as a moralizing device of fictional narrative and puts it in the service of a remarkable moral inventiveness, voi