Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jul 19th at 5:15 for Tangerine at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Eric wearing a gray shirt and 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.
After hearing that her boyfriend/pimp cheated on her while she was in jail, a hooker and her best friend set out to find him and teach him and his new lover a lesson.
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jul 12th at 4:00pm for Amy at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Laine wearing a red shirt 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.
Amy tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehousein her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving and vital film shines a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few can. A once-in-a-generation talent, Amy Winehouse was a musician that captured the worlds attention. A pure jazz artist in the most authentic senseshe wrote and sung from the heart using her musical gifts to analyze her own problems. The combination of her raw honesty and supreme talent resulted in some of the most unique and adored songs of the modern era. Her huge success, however, resulted in relentless and invasive media attention which, coupled with Amys troubled relationships and precarious lifestyle, saw her life tragically begin to unravel. Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning in July 2011 at the age of 27. Directed by Asif Kapadia (Senna).
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jul 5th at 3:25pm for The Overnight at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Brian F. wearing a green “DC Bocce” t-shirt 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.
Alex, Emily and their son RJ have recently moved to Los Angeles’ Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends. After a chance meeting with Kurt at the neighborhood park, they gladly agree to join family pizza night at the home. But as it gets later and the kids go to bed, the family playdate becomes increasingly more revealing and bizarre as the couples begin to open up. Writer/director Patrick Brice’s painfully funny take on thirty-something sexual frustration and parenthood features memorable lead performances by Taylor Schilling, Adam Scott, Jason Schwartzman and Judith Godreche.
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 28th at 5:00pm for Love & Mercy at the Avalon Theatre . Look for Laine wearing a black and white skirt 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.
LOVE & MERCY presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era-defining catalog of Wilsons music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 21st at 5:30pm for The Wolfpack at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Brian F. wearing an “All Hail the Glow Cloud” t-shirt 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.
The six Angulo Brothers have spent their entire lives locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Nicknamed The Wolfpack, they’re all exceedingly bright, are homeschooled, have no acquaintances outside their family and have practically never left their home. All they know of the outside world is gleaned from the films they watch obsessively and recreate meticulously, using elaborate homemade props and costumes (Reservoir Dogs is a favorite).
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 14th at 3:45 for Far From the Madding Crowd at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Brian A. wearing a green t-shirt 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 is the story of independent, beautiful, and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors; Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba’s choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 7th at 4:30 for Mad Max: Fury Road at the AMC Loews Uptown 1 . Look for Eric wearing a gray 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.
Years after the collapse of civilization, the tyrannical Immortan Joe enslaves apocalypse survivors inside the desert fortress the Citadel. When the warrior Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) leads the despot’s five wives in a daring escape, she forges an alliance with Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), a loner and former captive. Fortified in the massive, armored truck the War Rig, they try to outrun the ruthless warlord and his henchmen in a high-speed, deadly chase through the Wasteland.
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 31st at 5:00pm for While We’re Young at the Landmark Bethesda Row . Look for Laine wearing a black and white skirt 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.
The dramatic comedy While Were Young is writer/director Noah Baumbachs (Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) exploration of aging, ambition and success. Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star as a middle-aged couple whose career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple (Amanda Seyfried, Adam Driver) enters their lives. Also starring Charles Grodin, Maria Dizzia, Adam Horovitz and Ryan Serhant.
Please note that Bethesda Row features assigned seating. The group will be sitting in row E. We will also meet back upstairs in the theatre lobby after the film in case we do not all sit together.
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 24th at 3:30 for Iris at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Brian A. wearing a green t-shirt 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.
Iris pairs legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed, 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a fashion film, the documentary is a story about creativity and how, even in Iris’s dotage, a soaring free spirit continues to inspire. Iris portrays a singular woman whose enthusiasm for fashion, art, and people is life’s sustenance and reminds us that dressing, and indeed life, is nothing but an experiment. Despite the abundance of glamour in her current life, she continues to embrace the values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing during the Great Depression. “I feel lucky to be working. If you’re lucky enough to do something you love, everything else follows.”
Join the Washington DC Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 17th at 4:05 for About Elly at the Landmark E Street Cinema . Look for Laine wearing a black and white skirt 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.
About Elly is a terrific film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi prior to making the Academy Award-winning A Separation and The Past. It is now getting a well-deserved U.S. release, and richly repays the wait. Like Farhadis other films, it is full of subtle motivations and believable characters, building intense emotional involvement as the story unfolds. Beautiful Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani, The Patience Stone, Exodus: Gods and Kings), is a friendly young wife and mother with a tendency to stretch the truth to try to make things better. She arranges a weekend getaway to the seashore with three couples who were friends at university, with their young children, and includes Ahmad (Shahab Hosseini), the newly-divorced brother of one of them, home from Germany looking for a wife. She also invites, with considerable arm-twisting, Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti), the sweet but shy kindergarten teacher of her daughter, to get acquainted with Ahmad. Everyone is having a good time until tragedy suddenly strikes, with a mysterious disappearance. Recriminations ensue and relationships are strained. The friends try to cover up the truth, and lie piles upon lie leading to disaster. (Fully subtitled)
