It’s time to lighten things up. Comedy time. Classic satires.
Barber Haus
Nov. 15th
6pm
Let’s barbeque (a meal fit for Jehovah, perhaps?) and finally say goodbye to the heat.
Bring your own meat and perhaps a side dish to share. I’ll provide beer and bubblies.
Homework:
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.
Movie Club:
Life of Brian(1979)
Irreverent satire of Biblical films and religious intolerance focuses on Brian, a Jew in Roman-occupied Judea. After joining up with an anti-Roman political organization, Brian is mistaken for a prophet, and becomes a reluctant Messiah.
Well we have all had a wonderful sabbatical this summer but it is time to bring back the movie club. What better what to do that then to view a feature film and a short film. The theme will be Isolation and Human relationships and we will be comparing Lars and the Real Girl to Weathered. Because Weathered is a short film we will be watching both films together, no homework.
Date: September 20th, 7:00 PM
Location: Casa de Love
Lars and the Real Girl (d. Gillespie, 2007) - The search for true love begins outside the box
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law’s home. The only problem is that she’s not real - she’s a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he’s nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they’ve always loved.
Weathered (d. Barber & Webb, 2008)
Weathered is the intimate portrait of Weather Wellington, who is caged in time by the loss of her fiancé. Retreating inside herself, Weather longs for human connection and reaches out the only way she knows how… by making doctors appointments.
May 10. 6:30pm. Barber Haus. Raiders of The Lost Ark.
TBD. Temple of Doom.
TBD. The Last Crusade.
May 22?. 7:00pm. Theater TBD. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. (d. Spielberg, 1981).
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to still hold the ten commandments. Unfortunately, agents of Hitler are also after the Ark. Indy, and his ex-flame Marion, escape from various close scrapes in a quest that takes them from Nepal to Cairo.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. (d. Spielberg, 1984).
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is back in action in the 2nd Indy film. He teams up with a night club singer and a 12 year old named Short Round. They end up in an Indian village, where the people believe evil spirits have taken their children away after a sacred stone was stolen. Indiana agrees to try and retrieve the stone for the villagers.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (d. Spielberg, 1989).
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, returns for the 3rd and final Indy film. Teaming up with his father, Indiana sets out to try and find the Holy Grail. Once again, the Nazis are after the same prize, and try to foil Indianas plans.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (d. Spielberg, 2008).
Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls
Hosted by Matt Barber on Dec. 8th. Heart of Darkness is our homework movie book.
Note: Heart of Darkeness is a very short story.
Heart Of Darkness
Loosely based on Conrad’s firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel is considered a literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With its modern literary approach to questions such as the ambiguous nature of good and evil, the novel foreshadows many of the themes and techniques that define modern literature.
Apocalypse Now
Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, who is sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American Colonel named Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost. Also stars Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford.
