Movies for April 2025: Anora and Mulholland Drive

      Jon Lee will host our meeting at his home with a Zoom option at noon on April 2. We will discuss:

Anora (2024)

    A young escort from Brooklyn meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

     Director:  Sean Baker

     Writer: Sean Baker

     Stars: Mikey Madison, Paul Weissman and Yura Borisov

Mulholland Drive (2001)

     After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

     Director: David Lynch

     Writer: David Lynch

     Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux

How to find streaming services for movies:

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Scores for March 2025 movies:

A Complete Unknown (2024) 7.5 (8 votes)

I'm Still Here (2024) 7.9 (8 votes)

Films of Merit

The Mallorca Files, a series (2019)

Hard Times, also known as Holy Water (2009)

The Newsroom, a series (2013-2014)

The Damned United (2009)

1923, a series (2022-2025)

1883, a series (2021-2022)

Flow (2024)

The Pitt, a series (2025)

 

Movies for March 2025: A Complete Unknown and I'm Still Here

      Bill Triest will host our March meeting at his new home in Forest Grove at noon on March 5 with a Zoom option. We will discuss:

A Complete Unknown (2024)

     In 1961, an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar and forges relationships with musical icons on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking performance that reverberates around the world.

     Director: James Mangold

     Writers:  James Mangold, Jay Cocks and Elijah Wald

     Stars:  Timothee Chalamet, Edward Norton and Elle Fanning

I'm Still Here (2024)

     A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971

      Director: Walter Salles

      Writers:  Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega and Marcelo Rubens Paiva

      Stars: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro and Selton Mello

How to find streaming services for movies:

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Scores for February 2025 movies:

The Brutalist (2024) 5.8 (5 votes)

The Last Showgirl (2024) 6.1 (7 votes)

Films of Merit

Hard Truths (2024)

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

The Only Girl in the Orchestra, short (2023)

Mr. Malcolm's List (2022)

Here (2024)

A Real Pain (2024)

       

       

Movies for February 2025: The Brutalist and The Last Showgirl

      Nic Bentley will host our meeting at noon on Feb. 5 at his home with a Zoom option. We will discuss:

The Brutalist (2024)

           

     When a visionary architect and his wife flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern United States, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious, wealthy client.

     Director: Brady Corbet

     Writers: Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold

     Stars: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce

The Last Showgirl (2024)

     A seasoned showgirl must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.

     Director: Gia Coppola

     Writer: Kate Gersten

     Stars: Pamela Anderson, Brenda Song and Kiernan Shipka

How to find streaming services for movies:

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Scores for January 2025 movies:

Wild Target (2010) 4.7 (9 votes)

The World's Fastest Indian (2005) 7.6 (9 votes)

Films of Merit

Churchill at War, a series (2024)

Baby Girl (2024)

Slow Horses, a series (2022)

Loudermilk, a series (2017-2020)

My Donkey, My Lover and I (2020)

Shrinking, a series (2023- )

Back Doves, a series (2024)

The Day of the Jackal (2024-)

Thelma & Louise (1991)

A Complete Unknown (2024)