Every Thursday at 7:30 p.m, head to the Amherst Theatre for the Sackville Film Society’s weekly screening. Tickets are $10, and are available at the box office. This week’s film is A Compassionate Spy, directed by Steve James. A Compassionate Spy is a gripping real-life spy thriller about controversial Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who infamously provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, and didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation. For more information, head to sackvillefilmsociety.com.
November 9
