Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Movies for November, 2024: My Old Lady and Tea with the Dames

      Hugh Heinsohn will host our Nov. 6 meeting online at 6 p.m., when we will discuss the presidential election results and the following movies: 

My Old Lady (2014)

     An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident.

Director: Israel Horovitz
Writers: Israel Horovitz and Jonathan Mason
Stars: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Maggie Smith


Tea with the Dames (2018)

     Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins and Judi Dench

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Movies for October, 2024: The Master and Searching for Sugar Man

      Carl Carlson will be hosting our Oct. 2 meeting at 7 p.m., and we will be discussing:


The Master  (2012) 

A naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future -- until he is tantalized by a Satanic cult and its charismatic leader.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams

Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.

Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Writers: Malik Bendjelloul, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom
Stars: Rodriguez, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Dennis Coffey


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Scores for September 2024 Movies

The Peasants (2023)  6.3 (8 votes)

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Friday, August 9, 2024

Movies for September, 2024: The Peasants, and The Monk and the Gun

      Don Nugent will be hosting our Sept. 4 meeting at 7 p.m. at his home, and we will be discussing:

The Peasants (2023) 

     Jagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th Century Polish Village -- a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by adherence to colorful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy.  

Directors: DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman
Writers: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman
Stars: Kamila Urzedowska, Robert Gulaczyk and Miroslaw Baka
     

The Monk and the Gun (2023)

     An American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.

Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Writer: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Stars: Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Phubz and Kelsang Choejay


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Monday, July 8, 2024

Movies for August, 2024: The Crime is Mine, and Kinds of Kindness

     Jon Lee will host our Aug. 1 meeting at 7 p.m. outside at his home, and we will be discussing:

The Crime is Mine (2023)

     In Paris, 1935, a young actress has just been acquitted of murdering a famous French producer. This is where the story just begins. Is she really innocent? Or has she gotten away with murder?

Director: Francois Ozon
Writers: Francois Ozon, Philippe Piazzo and Georges Berr
Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder and Isabelle Huppert

Kinds of Kindness (2024)

     A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path; a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning; and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide. 

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou
Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe

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Scores for July 2024 Movies

Rear Window (1954) 7.6 (8 votes)

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A Gentleman in Moscow  (2024)

 






    

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Friday, June 14, 2024

Movies for July, 2024: Rear Window and The Taste of Things

      Bill Triest will host our July 3 meeting at 7 p.m. outside at his home, and we will be discussing: 

Rear Window  (1954)

     A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: John Michael Hayes, Cornell Woolrich
Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey

The Taste of Things (2023)

    The Story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin--the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.

Director: Anh Hung Tran
Writers: Anh Hung Tran, Marcel Rouff
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Movies for June, 2024: The Day the World Stood Still and Close Encounters of the Third Kind

      John Cleary will host our 7 p.m. June 5 meeting at his home, and we will be discussing: 


The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

    An alien lands in Washington, D.C., and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. 

Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Edmund H. North and Harry Bates
Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal and Hugh Marlowe

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

     Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches. 

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood and Jerry Belson
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut and Teri Garr


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Scores for May 2024 Movies


Average rating on a 10-point scale

American Fiction (2024) 8 (9 voting)

Past Lives (2023) 6.7 (9 voting)


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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Movies for May, 2024: American Fiction and Past Lives

     Nic Bentley will host our May 1 meeting at his home with an online Zoom option, and we will be watching: 


American Fiction (2023)

    A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.

 Director: Cord Jefferson
 Writers: Cord Jefferson, Percival Everett
 Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross and John Ortiz


Past Lives (2023)

    Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny. 

Director: Celine Song
Writer: Celine Song
Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro



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