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.
This one, from 2012, is a British-American documentary film about a young Texas boy who went missing at the age of 13 in 1994 – but then in 1997 his family received a phonecall that he was found in 1997, alive, in Spain. This is a really well-styled story (featuring interviews with the family and other participants) and at times I forgot that I was watching a documentary until archived television news footage or headlines were inserted. As to not spoil it, I'll leave it at that.
I pulled Vera Drake from a list of films I earmarked to watch. To be completely honest, I don't know much about it other than the fact that it caught my eye because of its pro-choice storyline (you know me and women's rights; it tends to be a bit of a theme in my picks). It's set in working-class England. Vera Drake seems like a badass (we'll soon see).
The tag line this film is: "A mild-mannered family man with a secret taste for S&M finds himself pursued by a gang of ruthless dominatrices"
The Virgin Spring was mentioned recently by our friends/neighbors, “Dental” and “Mental.” We were explaining to them about movie night, then we got to exchanging different film titles — and this one came up as a must-see-sometime-in-life. It’s a 1960 Swedish film (translation is Jungfrukällan) directed by Ingmar Bergman (who also did classics like The Seventh Seal, etc.). It’s set in medieval Sweden and has lots of undertones of religious/moral scrupulosity.
