The Triangle Indie Film Meetup Group

When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.

The Chelsea is recommending buying your ticket in advance and arriving early. I'm setting the Meetup start time to be 20 minutes before showtime, but some earlier than that if you want to be sure. After the movie, we can walk over to Oishii for dinner and discussion. See you there!

Apocalypse Now isn’t just a war film—it’s a hallucinatory journey down the river into the heart of madness (with a generous budget for helicopters and napalm). We follow Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who’s sent on a mission to find the rogue Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a man who has gone full god-king in the Cambodian jungle. Along the way, we get surfing generals, haunting monologues, a soundtrack that alternates between Wagner and The Doors, and some of the most surreal sequences ever put on screen.

It’s equal parts chaos, poetry, and fever dream. You’ll leave wondering whether the real apocalypse is war itself… Either way, it is unforgettable.

I expect this may get sold out, so I will buy my ticket ahead of time. Movie starts at 1:00, so let us meet at 12:45.

If it is not too early after the film, we can go for dinner at Lucha Tigre.

A sensitive and soulful man earns a living by writing personal letters for other people. Left heartbroken after his marriage ends, Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) becomes fascinated with a new operating system which reportedly develops into an intuitive and unique entity in its own right. He starts the program and meets "Samantha" (Scarlett Johansson), whose bright voice reveals a sensitive, playful personality. Though "friends" initially, the relationship soon deepens.

Some of us saw this movie at the Lumina when it came out in 2014. Eleven years later, it's seeming awfully prescient. Let's watch it now and see how it looks in the light of the present moment. This is a potluck, so bring something to share. We'll gather around 7, fill our plates, and then start the movie around 7:30. I'll email directions to attendees the Wednesday before - if you don't get the email by Thursday, message me through the Meetup messaging and I'll send it to you directly.

As always with these in-home events, space is limited so please treat your RSVP as a commitment. You can bring a guest, but, if you are on the waitlist, you should each RSVP individually. This is because, if one person drops out, the first singleton on the waitlist gets added, so people with guests end up getting skipped over.