Thursday, March 13, 2025

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

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Scores for March 2025 movies:

I'm Still Here (2024) 7.9 (8 votes)

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Monday, February 10, 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


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Scores for February 2025 movies:

The Brutalist (2024) 5.8 (5 votes)

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Friday, January 17, 2025

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



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Scores for January 2025 movies:

Wild Target (2010) 4.7 (9 votes)

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