The Cinema Lounge
The Cinema Lounge meets ONLINE via Zoom on Monday, August 17, 2020 at 7:00pm. Our topic is International (Foreign Language) Films.
Earlier this year Parasite became the first non-English language film to win a Best Picture Oscar. Parasite also won for direction and screenplay. In 2019, Roma, another non-English language film, snagged 10 nominations and three wins including Best Director.
Are these films' successes a blip or a new direction? With streaming, it's easier than ever to see films from around the world. U.S. audiences were too often scared off by subtitles in the past. Are they now embracing the films the larger world has to offer? What are your favorite non-English language films? Do you gravitate toward any particular nations' movies?
Please RSVP to atspector@hotmail.com and you'll get the Zoom link 1-2 days before the discussion.
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The Cinema Lounge, a film discussion group, meets the third Monday of every month (unless otherwise noted) at 7:00pm at Teaism in Penn Quarter, 400 8th St., NW in Washington, DC (closest Metro stop is Archives, also near Metro Center and Gallery Place). NOTE: We will meet in the downstairs area. WE ARE MEETING ONLINE THIS MONTH. You do not need to be a member of the Washington DC Film Society to attend. Cinema Lounge is moderated by Adam Spector, author of the DC Film Society's Adam's Rib column.
Adam’s Rib Takes a Real Look at Fake Sequels
In a normal summer we would be flooded with sequels. We were supposed to see sequels of Top Gun, Wonder Woman, A Quiet Place (which would have come out in the spring but I’m still including it), Ghostbusters, and the latest in the Fast and Furious franchise. Of course this summer has proved anything but normal, and studios have postponed all of these films, many of them all the way to 2021. So instead I decided to focus on fake sequels: films described, advertised, or even briefly shown in other films but almost always as a joke. The best of them satirize how ridiculous many sequels are. Check out the best sequels never made in my new Adam’s Rib column.
We Need to Hear From YOU
We are always looking for film-related material for the Storyboard. Our enthusiastic and well-traveled members have written about their trips to the Cannes Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, London Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Palm Springs Film Festival, the Reykjavik Film Festival, the Munich Film Festival, and the Locarno Film Festival. We also heard about what it's like being an extra in the movies. Have you gone to an interesting film festival? Have a favorite place to see movies that we aren't covering in the Calendar of Events? Seen a movie that blew you away? Read a film-related book? Gone to a film seminar? Interviewed a director? Taken notes at a Q&A? Read an article about something that didn't make our local news media? Send your contributions to Storyboard and share your stories with the membership. And we sincerely thank all our contributors for this issue of Storyboard.
