April Film Club

Hello everyone!

Happy Spring! (technically at least, let's hope the cold is gone for good).

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it out for Calvary, we had a very good turnout and an excellent discussion afterwards. And it goes without saying, a metric ton of food, so as always, thank you to everyone who brought stuff to share, it is always appreciated!

For the month of April, following the tradition I've established the last few years, I'm going to show one of my favorite films (since it's my birthday month! yay!), and for this coming Film Club I've decided to show Dark City.

NOTICE:  Film Club will be meeting TUESDAY, APRIL 24th at 6:15pm for the month of April.  This is temporary to accommodate the Battle of the Books which will be held on our regular Thursday.

Dark City is a 1998 American Australian neo-noir science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas.  The screenplay was written by Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer.  The film stars Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, and William Hurt.  Sewell plays John Murdoch, an amnesiac man who finds himself suspected of murder.  Murdoch attempts to discover his true identity and clear his name while on the run from the police and a mysterious group known only as the "Strangers".  Among mainstream critics in the U.S., the film received generally positive reviews.  It currently holds a certified fresh rating of 74% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 80 reviews.  Roger Ebert awarded the film 4/4 stars later adding it to his list of Great Movies.  He said this in his review, "Dark City by Alex Proyas is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like Metropolis and 2001: A Space Odyssey.  If it is true, as the German director Werner Herzog believes, that we live in an age starved of new images, then Dark City is a film to nourish us.  There's such a wealth on the screen, such an overflowing of imagination and energy.  It's for anyone who still has a sense of wonder and a feeling for great visual style.  The film contains ideas and true poignance, a story that has been thought out and has surprise right to the end.  It's romantic and exhilarating.  Watching it, I realized the last dozen films I'd seen were about people standing around, talking to one another.  Dark City has been created an imagined as a new visual place for us to inhabit.  It adds treasure to our notions of what can be imagined."

NOTICE AGAIN:  Film Club will be meeting TUESDAY, APRIL 24th at 6:15pm for the month of April.  This is temporary to accommodate the Battle of the Books which will be held on our regular Thursday.

I hope you can all make it out to this wild and fantastic film!

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt9HkO-cGGo