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.

future

andras and carson are going to be on the ffm board. and hannah and andrew. so we're going to continue the same series next semester, and these are some possibilities:
1. Throne of Blood by Kurosawa
2. Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles
3. Following by Chris Nolan
4. After Hours by Martin Scorsese
5. Notre Musique by Jean-Luc Godard

next week we're going to screen FOUR ROOMS!!!!!!

The Vanishing! 11-9-09! and voting!

Nominations for 11-23-09 (the Monday before Thanksgiving):
-Suspiria (Dario Argento) - 14
-Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) - 8
-Brand Upon The Brain (narration by Isabella Rossalini) - 8
-Russian Ark (92 minute single take) (time travel!) - 26
-Police Story II (Jackie Chan FILM, last one in HK) - 3
-Daisies (Czech, 'feminist farce') - 2
-Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) - 5
-High Noon (epic western) - 8
-Grave of the Fireflies (Studio Ghibl) - 1

RUSSIAN ARK IS THE WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CINEMA OF DOOM flier!

Woohoo! Cinema of Doom, the FFM/EEA/Latent Image double feature, is fast approaching! Check out this cool flier!



**the room isn't confirmed yet, so that might change!**

Flier for Upcoming Events, Fall 09

A bit of a change - we changed the theme to "Directors You Know, Films You Don't!". Everything is the same except we changed the Cronenberg film from "Videodrome" to "The Brood" (don't worry, you can still nominate Videodrome for a screening).

Screening #3, News & Updates

Upcoming Special Event:
10.30.09: HALLOWEEN DOUBLE FEATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (at 5pm)

Updates:
FFM is undergoing a lot of changes this semester! We are going to be combining with Latent Image to reform "Film Arts Society" as one group, with each group still acting independently within the umbrella of FAS. There will be co-presidents, co-vice presidents and so-on, so it will still remain independent groups but with an overarching title uniting them both. Latent Image and FFM go hand in hand, and we are all really excited for the merger.

We're also going to be doing the screenings a little differently. We're still going to have group-nominated and democratically decided screenings, but we're going to space them out and do them every other week. On the other weeks, we're going to be screening films that the Film Arts Society board is going to choose, with a theme running through the semester.

This semester we're starting off with "Essential Directors, Essential Films" for our theme of pre-decided screenings. Those are happening as follows:
NAUSICAA by Hayao Miyazaki, 10.26.09
VIDEODROME by David Cronenberg, 11.02.09
WILD AT HEART by David Lynch, 11.16.09
SOLYARIS by Andrei Tarkovsky, 11.30.09
FUDOH by Takashi Miike, 12.14.09

Next semester we will probably carry on with that theme, since there are a lot of directors that we wanted to include and didn't get to.

The voting/nomination process will still happen, but only on weeks where we are screening the films that have been decided on by voting.

In the future, we hope that pre-decided screenings will be decided by the Film Arts Society Executive Board. Right now that is just me (Kallie), Kyle, Amanda, and LJ (from Latent Image). We want to have more people though, which is another thing we will vote on.

Nominations for NOVEMBER 7, 2009:
-Daisies - 3
-Werckmeister Harmonies -4
-The Room - 4
-Happy Together - 3
-Raise The Red Lantern - 0
-The Vanishing (crime/drama/horror/mystery/thriller) - 7
-The Barber of Siberia (Nikita Mikhalkov) - 1
-Six String Samurai - 1

Discreet Charm of the Boursoaijglk - 10/01/09

Tonight we're screening The Discreet Charm of the Hard-To-Spell-Social-Elite.

Tops of discussion:
1. We really need a treasurer and a secretary to help us run things smoothly. Volunteers.

NOMINATIONS:
1. Videodrome - Cronenberg - 7
2. The Holy Mountain - Jodorowski - 4
3. Nausicaa: The Valley of the Wind - Miyazaki - 9
4. Police Story Two - Jackie Chang - 1
5. Hard Candy (it sucks though) - 0

YAY I WON

first screening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9-24-09

So today is our first screening of the semester. we are screening CIRCUIT and the director and producer are here so if you missed out, too bad for you.

This also is our first nominating/voting session so HERE IT GOES:

NOMINEES:
-Nausicaa: The Valley of the Wind - 5 // 3
-Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) - 2
-What's The Matter With Kansas? - 5 // 3
-Chungking Express - 3
-The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - 8
-Performance (Nicholas Roeg) - 5 // 3 // JOHN GIANVITO SAYS THIS IS THE WINNER!!!!!!

Next Week: 10/1: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Week After That: 10/8: Performance