Indy Film Buffs Meetup Group

Let's Talk Movies in a restaurant

Spring is here, but it still gets dark too early, so we are going to Talk Movies in a Restaurant one more time this season. .

We will start with "Last Movie Seen", a roundtable discussion about a movie that you have recently seen. Come prepared to share a short description about the plot (no spoilers), how you saw it, and whether you recommend it or warn against it. It's a great way to develop a list of movies to check out.

For our second discussion, we are going to celebrate the beginning of shorts season in Indianapolis by celebrating movie shorts. Your very pleasurable homework is to watch 3 movie shorts and share your thoughts with us. You can watch any kind of movie shorts that you like, Pixar, Looney Toons, Laurel & Hardy,..., just follow his rule: They should each be between 4 minutes and 40 minutes long. I suggest watching a variety of shorts, but follow your own muse.
Sources of shorts: Kanopy, your paid for by the library steaming service, is the best if you are looking for award nominated shorts. Netflix has a large catalog of shorts, and Disney has theirs. Enjoy the search.
We will be meeting at the big round tables on the right side of PhoSaigon.
We look forward to talking movies with you.

Join us for our monthly movie discussion on Zoom! First up will be our regular icebreaker round where we go “around the room” and invite everyone to talk about a movie you’ve watched recently. Give us a short summary, how you saw it and a recommendation or a warning.

In the second hour we'll discuss the movie of the month. The series theme for 2025 is "member's pick." This month's selection is Fallen Angels (1995) directed by Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai. Wong's cinematic style is defined by elliptical storytelling, sumptuous visuals and evocative music. In Fallen Angels he uses the crime drama genre as a springboard to explore existential themes. The backdrop is the city on the eve of the 1997 handover from British to Chinese control, the defining event in modern Hong Kong history.

Info for Zoom Meetups: Indy Film Buffs operates on Eastern time. The Zoom link will be added to the Meetup event shortly before start time. If you're on the "Going" list but can't see the Zoom link at 7, please message me (Helen) via direct Meetup message and I'll reply with the link. As a best practice to avoid Zoom bombing, attendees who JOIN the meeting with camera off will be removed from the Zoom meeting. I stop monitoring the waiting room about 7:15 (you can message me if you know you'll be running late).

Indy Film Buffs is a long-established movie club in Indianapolis. Movie lovers from anywhere in the country are welcome to join our Zoom discussions. If you live in Indy, we invite you to join us at some of our in-person events as well.

Until Dawn is a film derived from the 2015 video game Until Dawn, set in the same universe and featuring an original standalone story that expands upon the game series' mythology. The film was directed by David F. Sandberg and written by Blair Butler and Gary Dauberman from a screen story by Butler. It stars Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A'zion, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, and Peter Stormare, who appeared in the game. One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. They find themselves horrifically murdered, only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning. Trapped in an endless time loop, they’re forced to relive the nightmare again - only each time, the killer is different, each more terrifying than the last, and the only way to escape is to survive until dawn. Here's the trailer:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30955489/
Tickets are $13.00 per person. The 7 PM time is a guess, and the actual time will be updated when that information becomes available. We'll gather in the lobby before the film. Hope to see you there!

The Surfer is a film written by Thomas Martin, directed by Lorcan Finnegan and starring Nicolas Cage. A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point. Here's the trailer:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27813235/
Tickets are $13.00 per person. We'll gather in the lobby before the film. The 7 PM start time is a guess, and the actual time will be updated when that information becomes available. Hope to see you there!