Documentary on Brazilian Photographer Sebastião Salgado Screening February 4 at GNG’s Dinner & a Movie

In “The Salt of the Earth,” film Director Wim Wender calls on us to contemplate the ways that a photographer who captures atrocities can both awaken and dull our conscience by creating a sense of intense immediacy while making us acutely aware of the distance between us and the sufferer. New York Times film critic A. O. Scott says, “The Salt …

Ex Machina Explores the Line Between Man and Machine, January 21 Dinner & a Movie

In this, the era of artificial intelligence (AI), we face the same dilemma described by Mary Shelly almost two hundred years ago in the tragic tale of Frankenstein. The Turing Test is “…a test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to …