We're going to try to revive this venerable tradition this summer!

July 14, 2012 - "Inception" - Today being Bastille Day, and the Edith Piaf song "je ne regrette rien" being a part of this movie, we bit the bullet and went ahead on Greg's enthusiastic recommendation of this state of the art, mind-bending Christopher Nolan movie (Greg)
TR - "It's good to start up the movies again, but sorry, this was the third worst movie I've ever seen!"

July 28, 2012 "In the Loop" - a british comedy about the build up to the Iraq war in the british and american government (Michelle and Dan) Preceded by shorts from Michel Gondry #2.
TR - "Thanks for bringing this. It makes up for recommending the worst movie I ever saw - Boogie Nights!"
MT - "Yes, that was a very good choice. So, how many times have you and Dan seen this movie?"
MS / DC - "four or five times!"
MT - "It must make more sense each time you see it!" (followed by some explanation by MS and DC about what happened in the movie)
TR - "But Mark, that is the point about this kind of movie, you're supposed to get enveloped in the flow of it. Have you ever seen 'Beat the Devil'? exactly the same!"
MS - "And that's why David Lynch is my favorite director, I watch his movies over and over and still don't know what they're about!"
MT - "hmmm, I don't know if that's quite the same thing... well, there certainly was a lot of creative swearing in this movie! And it's horrifying to think that things could happen like this!"

July 29, 2012 "Coriolanus" - Ralph Fiennes is the doomed Roman general, Vanessa Redgrave is his mother, in this highly charged Shakespeare play set in modern Rome (Tom).
JM, A, MT, TR - "that was a good one!"
MT - "I didn't think very realistic event-wise, moreso psychology-wise. 'tis a wonder to hear anon / such twisted and winding language these players doth speak!"

August 5, 2012 "My Darling Clementine". Highly fictionalized account of the gunfight at OK Corral, with Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp, Victor Mature as Doc Holliday. This started out as a 5 min excerpt of the soliloquy "To be or not to be" which occurs in the movie, followed by another "To be or not to be" excerpt from the 1943 Ernst Lubitsch version of "To Be or Not To Be" with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. TR liked the western, so we watched the rest of the movie from that point
MT - "This is my favorite western (in addition to 'The Man who Shot Liberty Valance)'. I noticed also that this has a 100% tomatometer rating!"
TR -"Have you seen the Branagh version of Hamlet? That's my favorite, it has a very different slant, about power politics and things like that rather than the usual Freudian stuff"
TR (of 'To Be or Not To Be') "Is that really Jack Benny?!"
MT "Yes, I think he only made this one film"

August 12, 2012 - Friday Evening Lecture by Baldomero Olivera - Something new at MBL, the Friday Evening Lecture available on the internet. Suggested by Tom.
RJ - "It was particularly good because of my experience with all the redundancy with Luteinizing Hormone, good see all that biology!"

August 14, 2012 - "The Last Word" -- Last episode of "The Closer", 7 seasons of Brenda Leigh Johnson and the Major Crimes unit of the LAPD.
(during climactic fight scene) everyone - "gasp!"
SidT (afterwards) - "That was stunning"