What we’re about
As you've probably figured out, since theaters went dark in March, your Classic/Indie Movie Group and your International/Arthouse Movie Meetup Group have joined forces to bring you weekly virtual screenings to enjoy individually, followed by weekly Saturday night ZOOM group discussions. We, your organizers, John, Shirley and Carter are doing our best to make these virtual events happen, and we are thoroughly enjoying ourselves – we hope you can say that too!
Boston has many high-class, non-profit theaters such as the Museum of Fine Arts, the Coolidge Corner, the Harvard Film Archive and the Brattle. They offer movies on demand. Whenever it makes sense, we choose a movie from one of those local venues. In addition, on-demand viewing is increasingly available via on-line rental with Hulu, iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Prime and Google Play. Occasionally, other vendors are a source of good movies, as well.
How This Works
Carter, Shirley and John work together to post a Meetup, early in the week.Rental information is explained in the posting.Members screen the film on their own, during the week.There's typically a 48 hour viewing period, from the time you first hit PLAY. ZOOM discussions occur every Saturday night from 7:20-8:50. To everyone who RSVPs, a ZOOM link will appear in a box to the right of the event page, to be used the night of the discussion. That should cover it, for you. We expect this arrangement to last until the lights come back on in adequately coronavirus-free theaters, at which point we'll address the question of where we go from here. Please feel free to reply to this message with your comments, concerns and suggestions. In the meantime, this is fun! We're really pleased at the attendance we're getting and the thoughtful feedback. Let it continue! We hope to "see" you this Saturday night.
Yours,S, J, & C
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Floating Clouds -- The Naruse RetrospectiveHFA - Carpenter Hall, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Film Archive is screening a major retrospective of the director, Mikio Naruse, who is considered one of Japan’s great film artists, up there with Ozu and Kurosawa, if not as well-known. I’m looking forward to exploring some films in this series.
The first one is this Sunday, and is widely considered one of Naruse’s greatest masterpieces: Floating Clouds.
“A devastating adaptation of Hayashi Fumiko's final novel, Floating Clouds match-cuts between softened memories and brutal reality, past and present, sun-kissed images of French Indochina and a post-war Japan cloaked in shadows. Ignominy has overtaken Tokyo, where two former workers for the Imperial Forestry Ministry—Kengo, a married officer (Mori Masayuki) and Yukiko, a typist (Takamine Hideko)—reignite their wartime affair in a doomed attempt to revivify a past distorted by the ripe promise of endless imperial capital. Arguably Naruse's most famous and acclaimed film and perhaps his most formally ambitious, Floating Clouds was described in Ozu Yasujiro's diary as a "real masterpiece." – Kelley Dong on the Harvard Film Archive website.
Directed by Naruse Mikio.
With Takamine Hideko, Mori Masayuki, Okada Mariko.
Japan, 1955, 35mm, black & white, 123 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.It is possible this will sell out, so you might consider ordering your ticket in advance.
After the film, we’ll meet upstairs on the ground floor by the entrance and then head out for a bite and conversation.
