Saturday, June 12, 2004 City of God Told through the eyes of a young teenager, the story of brazilian punks growing up in the slum "City of God" of Rio de Janeiro.
B.A. "It kept me awake for 2 and a half hours, which I was surprised about..."
M.T. "I'm just not sure how realistic that was..."

Sunday, July 4, 2004 Prime Suspect 6

Monday, July 5, 2004 To Be or Not To Be
Polish repertory group struggles against the Nazis in World War II Warsaw. With Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, and Ernst Lubitsch as director.
ST: "Very clever storyline. You couldn't tell what was going to happen next."

Sunday July 11, 2004 The Wrong Trousers

Sunday July 18, 2004 Woman of the Dunes (Tom)
Japanese movie from the mid 60's. Alienated young man collects beetles as a hobby and ends up bamboozled by some villagers into being trapped in a kind of hole in the middle of sand dunes. A woman already lives there, but it's not clear why. He tries to escape throughout the movie but eventually becomes attached to the woman and the prison in the dunes.
TR (beforehand): "this is an anti-marriage movie!"
TR (during): "did you see that symbolism?"
TR (afterwards): "The moral of the movie is never go into a strange hole."
JD: "Considering how bad it could have been, it wasn't that bad..."
PL: "Lots of sand. The photography was really good."
MT: zzzz

Sunday July 25, 2004 Master and Commander
Adapted from Patrick O'Brian "The Far Side of the World". With Russell Crowe as Captain Aubrey. British warship ca 1800 battles a French ship off the coast of Brazil, around Cape Horn, and culminating off of Galapagos Islands.
JD: "Great movie!"
TR & JG: "Liked the music!"
MT: "those wooden ships reminded me of our house"
MT: "My favorite scene was the last one, where Maturin and Aubrey are playing music together. Jorge has to learn how to play the cello like that!"

Sunday August 1, 2004 Mystic River
Sean Penn academy award best actor, Tim Robbins academy award best supporting actor, and Clint Eastwood director. From Dennis Lehane novel about three men who grew up in a new england town together.
JD - "I don't understand why the father would want to kill his daughter"
JG, MT - "No, you got it all wrong!"
JD, JG, MT - "great acting!"
MT - "but there were so many things that didn't make sense - Kevin Bacon's wife that didn't talk, why exactly those boys killed Sean Penn's daughter, Sean Penn's wife's speech at the end, and what will Kevin Bacon do in the end?"
TR - "zzzz. (Later) - It was like "The Big Sleep", great on atmospherics but you can watch it over and over and still not know what it means".

August 8, 2004 Shadow of a Doubt
Long lost Uncle returns to family in a small California town. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Thornton Wilder helped with the screenplay.
EH - "Nothing much happens but tension builds up quite nicely. Lots of nice details, funny details in fact, like the widow who is attracted to Uncle Charlie...."

August 15, 2004 A Day at the Races
The Marx brothers try to save a sanatorium from bankruptcy by winning a horse race. With Groucho as the horse vet, Harpo as the jockey
RJ - "That story didn't make much sense. It just seemed to show those boys having a lot of fun"

August 21, 2004 Control (Peter)/ That Uncertain Feeling (Mark) Hungary double feature night.
The first is based on the Budapest metro system, showing the "controllers" who check and collect fares on the trains, as well as varied passengers and train drivers. The mystery is an alarming increase in train jumpers (suicides). The second involves a wife who tires of her insurance husband and becomes involved with a concert pianist. We watched it because of a scene where the husband hosts a group of Hungarians for dinner.
MS - (on the first film) "That was really very nice". (next day) "At least it wasn't boring"
PL - "You know, this controller job is considered worse than garbage collectors"
MT - "You should have explained that this was based on reality. I was thinking that this was another 'Delicatessan'!"
PL - " It was the director's first film and I think there were a lot of things in the story that didn't really make sense"
MT - (on the second film) - "egeshehgereh!"

August 28, 2004 A Mighty Wind Fourth film by Christopher Guest and company. A memorial concert for a folk music impresario brings together some old acts from the sixties.
GM "Those songs were amazing. And the actors were good musicians."

September 15, 2004. Waiting for Guffman Second film by Christopher Guest and company. A small town, Blaine, MO, decides to put on a musical for its 150th anniversary.
LR - "They must have had a lot of fun making that one. The clothes were perfect."

October 3, 2004 The Ladykillers Latest Coen brothers film
RJ - "That was funny" "My favorite was the old lady"
JD - "Very good but not their best"
MT - "I'm going to read some Edgar Allen Poe"

Who's Who
BA -Bruce Andersen
EH - Evelyn Houliston
GM - Gail Mandel
JD - Joe DeGiorgis
JG - Jim Galbraith
LR - Linda Runft
MS - Melina Schuh
MT - Mark Terasaki
PL - Peter Lenart
RJ - Rindy Jaffe
ST - Sid Tamm
TR - Tom Reese