This will be a reminder for everyone who was there on Thursday. Our next
meeting is Monday, October 9th at 9:30 am at Railroad Square Cinema.
Abbott and Nancy, we hope that Nancy's recovery has progressed well. This is
relatively short notice as we had quite a bit of difficulty in scheduling a
second meeting this coming week. We hope you will be able to join us. We
did, however, come to the conclusion that Thursday will be a good day for
our meetings this fall after this and plan to have our third meeting on
Thursday, October 19th.
I have developed a thematic grid for the films on my CINEMA EXPLORATION 2018
list (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls020109024/) on IMDb. This should be helpful
in seeing commonalities and unique characteristics for those films.
Hopefully, this will help us begin to rule-in or rule-out films for our
discussion and process. I have not addressed the Quebec films on the list
(#5-#10) in deference to Laurie who likely may be developing her own process
for assessing them. There are some older classic films in the Quebec group,
but aside from those we only have one classic film ("HEAT AND DUST")
currently on our list.
The group enjoyed the screening "THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE," but wanted to
evaluate it further knowing more about some of the other films that we have
under consideration. A handful of films were mentioned during our discussion
though we did not address most of the films on the list and no additional
films beyond the list were suggested. The films that on first-look seemed
intriguing beyond "THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE" were narratives "KILLS ON WHEELS"
and "ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE" as well as documentaries "LIBERATION DAY,"
"BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY," "FACES PLACES," "THROUGH THE REPELLENT
FENCE," and "INDIVISIBLE." These were the ones I included in my notes and,
hopefully, I didn't miss any others that may have been mentioned.
There was a very favorable review of "FACES PLACES" in the New York Times.
Here is a link to that review:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/movies/review-faces-places-agnes-varda-jr
-travel-in-the-present-glancing-at-the-past.html?rref=collection%2Fsectionco
llection%2Fmovies
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r-travel-in-the-present-glancing-at-the-past.html?rref=collection%2Fsectionc
ollection%2Fmovies&action=click&contentCollection=movies®ion=rank&module=
package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0>
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The Maine Jewish Film Festival is planning for Railroad Square Cinema to
function as a satellite venue on March 10th and 11th. It looks like the
easiest way to avoid stretching our audiences between CINEMA EXPLORATIONS
and MJFF would be for us to begin on 1/6-7/18 and have a bi-weekly schedule
that would include 1/20-21/18, 2/3-4/18, 2/17-18/18, 3/3-4/18 and finish on
3/17-18/18. If anyone has input about any conflicts on any of these dates,
please let me know.
Mike, I have included you as a "cc" on this e-mail, but we were intending to
add you to the mailing list. If this has already happened, it would be
helpful for someone to let me know. Thanks!
Looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday.
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