Well things have been a little busy outside of movie club land but with the new Batman movie coming out now is the perfect time to get back together.
The original ‘89 version featuring the dramatic skills of Michael Keaton will be our homework and then we will catch the new version in the theaters together. The tentative plan for the movie time will be Friday night opening at Paseo Colorado in Pasadena. Feel free to make another suggestion if there is a theater which is closer/better for you.
Batman (d. Burton, 1989)
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.
The Dark Knight (d. Nolan, 2008)
Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham’s new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker’s crimes grow more and more deadly.
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.
