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What we’re about

Right now:
[Woody Allen Festival]
Manhattan (1979)
Interiors (1978)
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
(These five will get us started. We'll continue as long as we want.)

[2025 Summer Outdoor Screenings]
Rocketman
Body Heat
His Girl Friday
Cabaret
Phantasm
What's New, Pussycat?

We are meeting every other week to discuss a movie. We're doing things a little differently. Rather than try to find a place where we can sit in the dark and watch the movie quietly together, we'll all watch the movie ahead of time like in a book group, then get together at a bar to talk about it.

Past movies:
[Cinematography Series]
Citizen Kane (DP: Toland, dir. Kane)
Throne of Blood (DP: Nakai, dir. Kurosawa)
Double Indemnity (DP: Seitz, dir. Wilder)
All That Heaven Allows (DP: Metty, dir. Sirk)
The Master (DP: Malaimare, dir. Anderson)
Empire of the Sun (DP: Daviau, dir. Spielberg)
Zodiac (DP: Savides, dir. Fincher)
French Connection (DP: Owen Roizman, dir. Friedkin)

[1975 Oscars Festival]
The Conversation (dir. Coppola) / Amarcord (dir. Fellini)
Lenny (dir. Fosse) / Lancombe, Lucien (dir. Malle)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (dir. Scorsese) / Claudine (dir. Berry)

[John Cassavetes Festival]
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Husbands (1970)
Woman under the Influence (1974)
Opening Night (1977)
Love Streams (1984)

[Halloween 2024! George Romero Festival]
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Martin (1977)
Creepshow (1982)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)

[Elaine May Festival]
A New Leaf (1971)
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Ishtar (1987)

[2024 Summer Outdoor Screenings]
Saturday Night Fever
Repo Man
Lost in Translation
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Koyaanisqatsi
Harold and Maude

[New German Cinema Festival]
Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974)
Marianne and Juliane (Von Trotta, 1978)
Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder, 1975)
The Tin Drum (Schlöndorff, 1978)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) / My Best Fiend (Herzog, 1999)
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Society in Which He Lives (Von Praunheim, 1971) / Supermarkt (Klick, 1974)

[1974 Oscars Festival]
The Last Detail (dir. Ashby) / American Graffiti (dir. Lucas)
Day for Night (dir. Truffaut) / The Pedestrian (dir. Schell)
Cries and Whispers (dir. Bergman) / Turkish Delight (dir. Verhoeven)
Last Tango in Paris (dir. Bertolucci) / Bang the Drum Slowly (dir. Hancock)

[Robert Altman Festival]
M*A*S*H (1970)
Brewster McCloud (1970)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Nashville (1975)
3 Women (1977)
Popeye (1980)
The Player (1992)

[2023 Halloween Festival ('80s Shapeshifters)]
Wolfen
Cat People
Altered States
The Thing

[2023 Summer Outdoor Screenings]
Singin' in the Rain
Blue Velvet
Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
Pink Floyd The Wall
Blacula / Scream Blacula Scream
Punch-Drunk Love

[Greenaway Festival]
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)
Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Nightwatching / Rembrandt's J'Accuse (2007/8)

[Sight & Sound 2022 Festival]
All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
Persona (Bergman, 1966)
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)
The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
Paris Is Burning (Livingston, 1990)
Possession (Żuławski, 1981)
Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1974)
La Ciénaga (Martel, 2001)

[Neo-baroque (cinéma du look) Festival]
Le grand bleu (Besson, 1988)
La lune dans le caniveau (aka Moon in the Gutter) (Beineix, 1983)
Les amants du pont-neuf (Carax, 1991)
37º2 le matin (aka Betty Blue) (Beineix, 1986)
Mauvais sang (Carax, 1986)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)

[Halloween 2022 Mini-Festival]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978)
Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973)

[De Palma Festival]
Carlito's Way (1993)
Carrie (1976)
Blow Out (1981)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Body Double (1984)

[Arthur Penn Mini-Festival]
Four Friends (1981)
Little Big Man (1970)

[Midnight Cowboy Mini-Festival]
Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)

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