Next week's screening

Next week is either Naked Lunch or a John Hughes movie, and probably at the paramount.

Films for next time

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs book, Cronenberg directed, surreal and about drugs n stuff. 5 - it is the winner!

Even Cowgirls get the blues - woman hitchhike's across country, stays at lesbian dude ranch. Uma Thurman!

George Washington - David Gordon Green, 2000, small town kid wants to be president.

And after thanksgiving is Cache.

Film for three weeks from now

Next week is veteran's day and we will not have a screening. Two weeks from now is the anime Perfect Blue.

Cache - French thriller. Couple find out someone's videotaping their house. 4. It's the winner!

Naked Lunch - Based on the William S. Burroughs book, directed by Cronenburg..about drug addicts, crazy surrealist kind of movie. 3

Film for next week

Izo by Takashi Mise - Remorseless samurai's journey through hell. 4

Peeping Tom - Michael Powell - Serial killer story, man photographs women he kills. 1

Perfect Blue - Animated, awesome. Pop star wants to be an actress - first role about getting raped. Murderous stalker.5 it's the winner!

Julian Donkey Boy - Harmany Karin - Mentally unstable boy (father Werner Herzog). Lo fi video, dogma 95. 1

Film for next week

Next week's film is a special Halloween screening of silent film "Faust" with live musical accompaniment by Emerson Experimental!

Film for two weeks from now: Mulholland Drive - David Lynch's masterpiece about Hollywood, an actress in trouble...

Next Week's Film

La Haine - French film, takes place in one day. Early 20s guy, riot, one of them wants to become gangster. 1996. 2 is the winner!
Z - Political thriller, assassination. 1

Film for next week

Reprise - Norwegien film, fast paced drama, two brothers, aspiring writers, downward spiral mentally. 2 (it's the winner!)

Z - political thriller, politition assassinated in greece. 1

Film for next week

Intolerance - Early sound, 4 love stories throughout history. Theme of intolerance. Griffith. 5
Kontroll - Hungarian film. weird noir thriller. Subway workers, serial killer. angsty. 20 it is the winner.

Film for Next Time!

Next week we will probably be screening a film by Emerson Professor Rob Todd.

And the week after that, April 28th, is Bring Your Own Margin day, so bring in your work!

Screening for next week

Run Lola Run (1998) - Lola's boyfriend is held ransom. Lola must get money. Quasi scenario blood-guts-boobs...ticking clock, running! 8

Chop Shop (2007) - About a Scrappy kid from Queens, about poverty. - 10 - The winner!

Ballast (2008) - The death of a family member affects the lives of three people...and dog, gun. - 4

Bloody Sunday - Ireland IRA, about the massacre, really realistic. - 3

March 31st, Next Week's Screening!

Our next weeks film will be "Un Flic" directed by Jean-Pierre Melville: A bank robbery in a small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just an asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night club owner, must also deal with police comissaire Edouard Colemane, who happens to be his good friend.

The Wild Bunch - An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the traditional American west is disappearing around them. Directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Baraka - A movie with no conventional plot: merely a collection of expertly photographed scenes. Subject matter has a highly environmental theme.

Will vote online...

Nominations for Next Screening

1. Cinema Paradiso (filmmaker recalls his childhood) - unanimous win.