Movies for March 2018: Lady Bird and I, Tonya

Bill G is picking the movies for March, but the meeting will be held at Dean's house. The movies to see are:

Lady Bird (2017)

In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

Director: Greta Gerwig

Writer: Greta Gerwig

Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts 

I, Tonya (2017)

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

Director: Craig Gillespie

Writer: Steven Rogers

Stars: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney

Scores for February's Films

• The Post (2017)  7.1 / 10
• The Shape of Water (2017)  6.82 / 10

Films of Merit

• A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
• Babylon Berlin (TV series)
• Definitely, Maybe (2008)
• Get Out (2017)
• Last Flag Flying (2017)
• Live by Night (2016)
• Phantom Thread (2017)
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (TV series)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• The Polka King (2017)
• The Tunnel (TV series)

Performances Worth Seeing

• Astoria Parts 1 and 2 at Portland Center Stage
• Chamber Music Northwest
• The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Books Worth Reading

• Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark