Next movie club is coming soon. Are we all OK with the 3rd saturday of the month? That would mean our next club is on Oct. 18th.
James Love has picked our movie combo, and will be hosting at the Barber Haus.
After careful deliberation, we’ve settled on a road movies with young men theme. You know how James loves his young men movies. =)
Homework:
Smoke Signals
Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family (and his tough son Victor), and Victor hasn’t seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold’s remains, but only if Thomas will also go with him. Thomas and Victor hit the road.
Movie Club:
Everything is Illuminated
A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly funny broken English.
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.
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.
