The Cinema Lounge meets ONLINE via ZOOM on Monday, June 21, 2021 at 7:00pm. Our topic is Weddings in the Movies.

June is wedding season, so we'll explore our favorite movie nuptials scenes. Weddings are inherently cinematic, and movies have used them in many different ways. A happily ever after in a romance, a funny catastrophe, a showcase for a dysfunctional family, and so much more. Our hero could be desperately trying to break up a wedding, like Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) in The Graduate. The Godfather uses the Corleone wedding to set the stage for the entire film.

Do we favor movies that focus on a wedding(s) such as Father of the Bride, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Best Man, or The Wedding Crashers? Or do we prefer weddings as a tool to tell a larger story as with Goodfellas or more recently with The Farewell? How do these scenes compare with each other and real weddings you've attended?

Please RSVP to atspector@hotmail.com and you'll get the Zoom link 1-2 days before the discussion.

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.

Hollywood provides plenty of awards recognizing work in a particular film. Certain institutions, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Center will also recognize entire bodies of work with lifetime achievement awards. To the best of my knowledge no one has honored actors, directors, or other film artists for their work over a few years when they shined the brightest, and that’s where I come in. I look at who had the highest peak in my new Adam's Rib column.

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.

FILMS

More theaters have opened and some restrictions have been lifted.

In addition to streaming services, many local theaters offer streaming for select films.

Film festivals in June include the Washington DC International Film Festival June 4-13 with more than 50 films. Other film festivals at the AFI include the documentary festival AFI Docs June 22-27 and Spanish Cinema Now with 9 films from Spain. The EuroAsia Film Festival features short films from European and Asian countries. This year's theme is "Together in Dreams."

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