Monday, January 25 // Sicario // Ben

Not just a movie where a bunch of people get shot, but a critically-acclaimed movie where a bunch of people get shot!  Dawson Leary himself couldn't dream up such a masterful cinematic experience (mostly because Dawson is dumb).

Come join me in our new bloody feminist utopia on Monday, January 25th, at 7:30pm for a movie that critics have overwhelmingly used the word "taut" to describe.

-bg

January 14 // Carol // Rory

We took a field trip to River Oaks (fancy!) to see a movie about lesbians that didn't seem to treat each other very kindly.

- Mr. Trill

December 28 // Alps // Caroline

So you all know that I was a little negligent in posting prior to movie night (too many to choose from!), but I did want to put it on the record that we watched Alps for my showing. This 2011 film was directed by the same person who did Dogtooth (which I absolutely loved and previously showed for TMN), Yorgos Lanthimos. I thought it was interesting on the Wikipedia page that he describes Alps as "the complete opposite of his previous film, Dogtooth, which he says 'is the story of a person who tries to escape a fictitious world. Alps is about a person who tries to enter a fabricated world.'" The Greek vibe is deep, dudes.

– Caroline

November 11 // Mr. Nobody // Springer

When: 7:00 pm on Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Where: Casa de Springer
What: a movie and pizza

The year is 2092 and 118 year old Nemo recounts his life story.

The movie is a little over 2 hours, so we'll try to start pretty close to 7 so we can have time for DC if everyone is up for it.  First one there can park in the garage.

September 30 // Le Bonheur // Bjorn

TMN is back!! Tonight I am showing "Le Bonheur" (not "Le Boner" okay guys? ), a French New Wave film by Agnes Varda. Varda was one of the only female directors associated with the French New Wave, and her films offer a different take on male-female relationships than most of the other directors of the time.

"Le Bonheur" ( French for "Happiness", not for "Boner", remember?) is described by Criterion thusly:

Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda’s most provocative films, Le Bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.

So join me at House Garry at 7:30 for pizza, Dawson's and Boners-- I mean Bonheur!

September 3, 2015 // Rize // Ben

Little known fact: in addition to movies from Japan where the bad guy turns into a giant vagina monster and movies where everyone has a gun in each hand at all times including even when they are eating breakfast, I also LOVE dance movies. Center Stage, Step Up, Street Dance, You Got Served, I love them all.

My love for watching dance even extends to the hit TV show So You Think You Can Dance. When Caroline were watching one of the more recent episodes, one of the dancers (Jaja, a krumper from the Czech Republic and my favorite person on the show) talked about how she got into American Style street dance from all the way across the ocean when she saw the film we're watching this week: Rize.




Take it away, Wikipedia: Rize is an American documentary movie starring Lil' C, Tommy Johnson, also known as Tommy the Clown, and Miss Prissy. The documentary exposes the new dance form known as krumping which originated in the early 1990s in Los Angeles. The film was written and directed by David LaChapelle.

See you at 7:30 at House Garry this THURSDAY (sorry about all of the back and forth). Pizza provided, bring your own movement clothes.

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August 19, 2015 // The Treasure of the Sierra Madre // Springer

When: 7:30, August 19, 2015

Where: Casa de Springer

What: Pizza, whatever adult beverages you bring, a movie, and perhaps some DC

I first heard of this film while listening to a podcast called "Thinking Sideways" that deals with unsolved mysteries - in this case the mystery of who really was B. Traven. I have not seen the film before, but it won the Academy Awards in 1948 for Directing, Writing Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. It was nominated for Best Picture but lost to Laurence Olivier's adaptation of Hamlet. It probably won't suck.

From Wikipedia:

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) is an American dramatic adventurous neo-western with elements of Film Noir, written and directed by John Huston. It is a feature film adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, about two financially desperate Americans, Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt), who in the 1920s join reluctant old-timer Howard (Walter Huston, the director's father) in Mexico to prospect for gold.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the first Hollywood films to be filmed on location outside the U.S. (in the state of Durango and street scenes in Tampico, Mexico), although many scenes were filmed back in the studio and elsewhere in the U.S. The film is quite faithful to the source novel. In 1990, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

You can read more about B. Traven here.

See you Wednesday.

Bjorn - please bring your laptop and DC.