July 23, 2015 // Breathless // Bjorn

I have chosen to show Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 French New Wave film "Breathless" ("A Bout de Souffle") at the next installment of TMN. It is a highly influential movie made at the very beginning of the New Wave, as it was written and filmed in a way that was considered very unconventional and avant-garde at the time. It is noted for its use of jump cuts hand-held camera work, and natural lighting, devices that were not considered proper cinema techniques at the time, but have since been adopted by many different directors.
Let's check it out at Springer's place. Pizza will be provided, as will Dawson's.

7:30PM

Be there.

July 9, 2015 // Picnic at Hanging Rock // Rory

For the Trill among you,

We will be watching the 1975 Australian film Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir.  I would love to regale you with the compelling tale of an epiphany I had which inspired me to select this film.  But the truth is that I noticed it languishing in my Netflix queue and it:
(A) is neither too long (like Carlos (2010), another film (more of a miniseries, really) I wanted to pick) nor too short (like La Jetée (1962))

(B) seems as though it might meet some of my requirements for quality cinema: namely that it is critically acclaimed and (according to Netflix) "understated, scary, and dark".  Oh, and the cinematography is supposed to be top-notch.

But I haven't seen it before (per my rules) so don't blame me if it sucks.

If Netflix is late then our fallback option is Virunga, a 2014 documentary which I have also been wanting to see for a while.

8:00 PM @ House Garry (Thank you, Ben & Caroline!)
115 minutes
Dawson's Creek will be our desert after the main meal.