Monday, February 1, 2010
We are Back! Feb 2010
Thursday, April 16, 2009
May 2009 - Sin Nombre
Making its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Sin Nombre is an epic dramatic thriller from award-winning director Cary Fukunaga.
Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra (Paulina Gaytan), joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member, El Casper (Edgar M. Flores), who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates. Together they must rely on faith, trust and street smarts if they are to survive their increasingly perilous journey towards the hope of new lives.
[Note: Our meeting will be on May 20, 2009 at 7pm - location to be announced]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
May and June - Movie Suggestions
April 2009 - Sunshine Cleaning
Sunshine Cleaning is a 2009 comedy-drama film starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. Directed by Christine Jeffs and written by Megan Holley, the film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2008. It was purchased by Overture Films for distribution and opened in limited release on March 13, 2009. Former high school cheerleading captain Rose Lorkowski (Adams) is a thirty-something single mother who cleans houses for a living. Wanting to send her trouble-making eight-year-old son Oscar (Jason Spevack) to a private school, Rose decides to take her married lover's advice and get into the "lucrative" business of crime scene clean-up. Rose convinces her disillusioned, underachieving sister Norah (Blunt) to join her in the enterprise, which she calls "Sunshine Cleaning." The sisters begin to find meaning in their function to "help" in some way in the aftermath of a loss, just as the job stirs up memories of their own mother's death. Their priorities and goals tested, Rose and Norah face hard challenges as they strive to improve their lives. Note: Our meeting will be April 15, 2009 at 7pm at True Foods on Camelback Road.
Friday, February 20, 2009
April 2009 - Movie Suggestions
Friday, February 6, 2009
March 2009 - Taking Chance
February 2009 - Waltz with Bashir
Waltz with Bashir is an Oscar-nominated Israeli ant-war film. Waltz is an animated documentary written and directed by Ari Folman that looks into the horrors of the 1982 Lebanon War. This movie won the Best Foreign Film award at the 2009 Golden Globes, was an official selection at Cannes and has been nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 2009 Academy Awards.