The Cinema Lounge
The Cinema Lounge meets ONLINE via ZOOM on TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2021 at 7:00pm. Our topic is Reopening Theaters with AFI Silver's Todd Hitchcock.
After a long wait movie theaters are open again. That's the good news, but theaters face many challenges in the post-lockdown world. For starters - creating a COVID-safe environment, bringing staff back, and luring audiences that have become used to films at home. How have theaters navigated this new landscape? We will hear from Todd Hitchcock, Programming Director of the American Film Institute's Silver Theater in Silver Spring, MD.
The aptly named Todd Hitchcock has served as the Silver's Programming Director since 2003. He spoke at a 2015 Cinema Lounge about art house theaters and we are honored to have him back.
NOTE THE DATE IS TUESDAY, JULY 13.
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.
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.
