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.

August 4, 2015 // The Imposter // Caroline

This week I wanted to show a documentary, and had a hard time choosing between a few.

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.

Tuesday, August 4th, 7:30pm

House Garry, Pizza + BYOB

Trill.