PDX Men's Film Group

Friday, May 4, 2018

Movies for June 2018: On The Waterfront and Taxi Driver

Bill T is hosting in June, and the moves to see are:

On the Waterfront (1954)

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

Director: Elia Kazan
Writers: Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson, Robert Siodmak
Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

Taxi Driver (1976)

A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action, while attempting to liberate a twelve-year-old prostitute.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Paul Schrader
Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

Scores for May 2018 Films

Gemini (2017) 3.86 / 10
A Quiet Place (2018) 6.09 / 10

Films of Merit

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Monday, April 23, 2018

Movies for May 2018: Gemini and A Quiet Place

Nic is hosting in May and the movies to see are:

Gemini (2017)

A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity.

Director: Aaron Katz
Writer: Aaron Katz
Stars: Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz, John Cho

A Quiet Place (2018)

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Director: John Krasinski
Writers: Bryan Woods Scott Beck, John Krasinski
Stars: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds

Scores for April 2018 Films

Easy Rider (1969) 5.27 / 10

The Sheltering Sky (1990) 4.8 / 10

Films of Merit

Saturday, March 10, 2018

Movies for April 2018:
Easy Rider and The Sheltering Sky

Joe is hosting in April and the movies to see are:

Easy Rider (1969)

Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.

Director: Dennis Hopper
Writers: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson

The Sheltering Sky (1990)

The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Writers: Paul Bowles (book), Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci (screenplay)

Stars: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott

Extra Credit: "Morocco (Tangier)" Episode of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown on Netflix

Season 1 | Episode 5

What Burroughs called "Interzone", where artists like Burroughs, Bowles, Rimbaud, Verlaine, the Rolling Stones sought escape from Western moral prohibitions and the possibilities of great empty spaces.

Directors: Jared Andrukanis, Nick Brigden

Writer: Anthony Bourdain

Stars: Anthony Bourdain, Bachir Attar, George Bajalia

Scores for March 2018 Films

Lady Bird (2017): 7.7
I, Tonya (2017): 6.45

Films of Merit

Thursday, February 8, 2018

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

Performances Worth Seeing

Books Worth Reading

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

Friday, January 5, 2018

Movies for February 2018: The Post and The Shape of Water

Dean is officially hosting in February but the meeting will be at Bill G's house.

The movies to see are:

The Post (2017)

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Liz Hannah, Josh Singer

Stars: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson

The Shape of Water (2017)

At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Writers: Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor

Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon

Scores for Last Month's Films

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 7.00 / 10
The Disaster Artist (2017) 5.86 / 10

Films of Merit

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Movies for January 2018: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Disaster Artist

Hugh is hosting in January. Both movies to see are showing locally in theaters now:

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

Director: Martin McDonagh
Writer: Martin McDonagh
Stars: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell

The Disaster Artist (2017)

When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.

Director: James Franco
Writers: Scott Neustadter (screenplay), Michael H. Weber (screenplay), Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell (authors of the book "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made")
Stars: James Franco, Dave Franco, Ari Graynor