November Film Club

Hello everyone!

Hope you're all managing to stay warm with this increasingly colder weather!

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it out to Horror Fest last month.  The weather did its best to make it horrible, but we had a small group and enjoyed some spooky films.

For the month of November we will be following the trend of the last few years of watching a war film in honor of Veteran's Day.  We will be meeting Thursday, Nov. 21st at 6:15pm and the film I've picked is Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.

Dunkirk is a 2017 war film written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan.  It depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II.  Its ensemble cast includes Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Anuerin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy. Dunkirk portrays the evacuation from three perspectives: land, sea, and air.  It has little dialogue, as Nolan sought instead to create suspense from cinematography and music.  The film has extensive practical effects, and employed thousands of extras as well as historic boats from the evacuation, and period airplanes.  At the 90th Academy Awards, it received eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director (Nolan's first Oscar nomination for directing); it went on to win for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing.  Matt Zoller Seitz, writing for Rogerebert.com, gave the film 3.5/4 stars saying this in his review, "It has often been said that trauma wreaks havoc with one's perception of time.  This is one of the few works I can think of that considers that idea over the course of a whole feature, not just in self-contained sequences. (The backbone of Zimmer's score, appropriately, is a ticking clock.)  I admired the film throughout, and have been thinking about it constantly since I saw it.  This is a movie of vision and integrity made on an epic scale, a series of propositions dramatized with machines, bodies, seawater and fire.  It deserves to be seen and argued about.  They don't make them like this anymore.  Never did, really."

I hope you are able to make it out to this fantastic film.

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cmgiys2n1o