JCO: From NYT

This might help, found by Googling the title. It was apparently a 38 minute film, a short subject. The following is from a 1976 NYT review by Richard Eder writing about NY film festival entries:

"In the Region of Ice," directed and written by Peter Werner from a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, is more awkward and less skillful in every way. It is also much more affecting.

The Oates story is about a nun who is troubled and shaken, almost to the depths of her commitment, by a brilliant and unbalanced Jewish student in her Shakespeare class. She holds him off stiffly at first, then warms gradually to his enthusiasm. He has a breakdown, goes off to a mental hospital; comes back and demands from her more help than she can give.

The awkwardness, the constriction and patness of some of the scenes are redeemed partly by the fact that the screenplay is based on some very sound writing; partly by the fact that the film believes in itself. Most important is a wrenching performance by Fionnouala Flanagan as the constricted but flickering nun.

JCO: The Region of Ice (the film)

I'm not finding it on Amazon or Netflix.  Is it perhaps a new release? 

Anne D'Arcy, Ph.D.
Solano College

Re: JCO: "In the Region of Ice"

Same as story

In a message dated 11/30/2005 11:38:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
CoonHollow@aol.com writes:

<< This I would like to see: what is the film title?

Annie >>
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