Eddington at the Chelsea (starting with dinner)

Featuring The Favourite (pun intended) actress of our favorite shock-director and our favorite bad, really bad, Roman emperor, plus representing a novel genre of COVID-themed Western, this film shows enough promise of quirkiness and social satire to warrant closer investigation.

From writer-director Ari Aster comes a modern Western and paranoid thriller set in the American Southwest during the tumultuous summer of 2020. Isolated and sheltered in place, in a global pandemic, a nation under pressure found itself sifting reality through the haze of social media and lost its collective mind.
Eddington stars Joaquin Phoenix as small-town sheriff Joe Cross, who runs for mayor when progressive incumbent Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) attempts to modernize their dusty hamlet by attracting a new artificial-intelligence data center.
Ari Aster’s fourth feature takes the form of a classic showdown between two opposing forces over the future of Eddington, New Mexico (population 2,345), as spiraling conspiracies and standoffs derail a citizenry pushed to the brink.

Eddington at Chelsea Theater - movie times & tickets
https://www.thechelseatheater.org/movie/eddington
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31176520

We'll start at 18:30 with dinner at Siam Zap Pho (at the same shopping center), follow up with movie at 20:00, and finish with some discussion in front of the theater afterwards.