“We Need to Talk About Kevin” – Mar 11th
March 8th, 2012 | 
Author: Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Mar 11th at 5:00pm for We Need to Talk About Kevin at the West End Cinema . Look for Eric wearing A black shirt and blue jeans in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.
“We Need To Talk About Kevin” explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin. Starring: John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Siobhan Fallon, Joseph Melendez
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“Coriolanus” – Mar 4th
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Mar 4th at 4:50 for Coriolanus at the West End Cinema . Look for Eric wearing a black jacket and blue jeans in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.
Caius Martius “Coriolanus” (Ralph Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman General is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus’s anger prompts a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city.
Based on the play by William Shakespeare.
No movie this weekend; SNFC DC watches the Oscars!
“Pina 3D” – Feb 19th
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Feb 19th at 4:50 for Pina 3D at the AMC Loews Georgetown 14 . Look for Laine wearing a green coat in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.
aDance, dance, or we are lost.a Pina Bauschas final words summarize her life and provide the inspiration for acclaimed director Wim Wendersa (WINGS OF DESIRE, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB) breathtaking tribute to the legendary choreographer. Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal elevated dance into brilliantly subversive new expressive realms, and in this exhilarating film Wenders captures the raw, heart-stopping intensity of the movement and in stunning 3D transforms it into a transcendent cinematic experience. An official selection of the Berlinale, Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals, and now Germany’s official entry for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, PINA features interviews with and performances by Bausch’s beloved original company members, and offers an indelible image of an artist who went the full distance in her uncommonly rich creative life.
Advance tickets may be purchased at https://www.fandango.com/transaction/ticketing/redvines/ticketboxoffice.aspx?row_count=1756961294&mid=149127&tid=AAQPV
“The Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films 2012″ – Feb 12th
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Feb 12th at 3:45 for The Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films 2012 at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Brian A. wearing a green and grey striped sweater in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.
See all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short and more! Program includes: “Dimanche/Sunday” (Canada), in which every Sunday, it’s the same old routinethe train clatters through the village, Grandma will get a visit, and Dad dreams about his toolbox in church; “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” (USA), a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story, inspired in equal measures by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz and a love for books; Pixar’s “La Luna” (USA), a timeless coming-of-age fable of a young boy whose Papa and Grandpa take him to work for the very first time, rowing in an old wooden boat far out to sea; “A Morning Stroll” (UK), a whimsical tale in which a New Yorker meets a chicken on his morning walk; and “Wild Life” (Canada), the story of an Englishman who moves to Calgary on the Canadian frontier in 1909, but is singularly unsuited to it.
Buy your tickets online early! The movie will likely sell out.
“Addiction Incorporated” – Feb 5th
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Feb 5th at 5:30 for Addiction Incorporated at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Eric wearing a black jacket and blue jeans in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.
In 1994, scientist Victor DeNoble became the first whistleblower to reveal the tobacco industry’s efforts to manufacture “a maximally addictive” product. Tasked in the 1980s by a major tobacco company to invent a safer form of nicotine-one that would decrease the danger of heart failure while remaining just as addictive (so smokers could live, and smoke, longer)-DeNoble succeeded. But, in doing so, he inadvertently created something the tobacco companies had been avoiding for years-indisputable scientific evidence that nicotine was addictive. Their reaction was swift: his position was terminated, his lab was closed, and both his research and the “safer cigarette” were buried in the vaults and kept from the public…until he broke his confidentiality agreement and became the ultimate whistleblower. If you think you know everything there is to know about cigarettes and nicotine, Addiction Incorporated will startle you with its vital, previously undisclosed information. Straight from the mouths of the key players behind the scenes (including Steven C. Parrish, the former Senior VP and General Counsel for External Affairs at Philip Morris, and Jeffrey Wigand, the subject of the Academy Award-nominated film The Insider), this film reveals exactly how the tobacco industry achieved behemoth power through scientific secrecy…and what their next move may be.
“Red Tails” – Jan 29th
“A Separation” – Jan 22nd
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 22nd at 4pm for A Separation at the Landmark Bethesda Row . Look for Laine wearing a green coat in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.
Winner of four awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, including the Golden Bear for Best Film, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage in contemporary Iran. Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave Iran to provide better opportunities for her daughter. When her husband Nader (Peyman Moadi) refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father, Simin sues for divorce. But her request fails, so she returns to her parents’ home with her daughter. Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife’s absence, hoping that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.
Advance tickets may be purchased at https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/Ticketing.aspx?TheatreID=261&MovieID=12675&ShowDate=1/22/2012&ScheduleID=101936
“The Artist” – Jan 15th
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 15th at 4:30pm for The Artist at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Eric wearing A dark gray coat and blue jeans in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.
Hollywood 1927. Silent movie matinee idol George Valentin (Jean Dujardin, the charismatic star of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) is enjoying the good life, although he seems fonder of his faithful dog than of his trophy wife (Penelope Ann Miller). He meets funny, sexy young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), a dancer set for a big break, and sparks fly. With the advent of the talkies George’s career nosedives, while Peppy’s takes off. The Artist is the charming and poignant story of their interlinked destinies-a delightful valentine to the love of cinema, with a tip of the hat to Singin’ in the Rain and A Star Is Born. Writer/director Michel Hazanavicius (who also directed the OSS 117 films) daringly shot the film completely in the style of a silent feature, in black and white and without sound (with a few striking exceptions), filmed on location in Hollywood, set to a wonderful original score by Ludovic Bource. Winner of the Best Actor Award (Dujardin) at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Co-starring John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, and James Cromwell.
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” – Jan 8th
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 8th at 3:10 for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at the Regal Gallery Place . Look for Brian A. wearing a blue striped sweater in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), as he investigates the disappearance of a wealthy patriarch’s niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
