The Cinema Lounge
The Cinema Lounge meets ONLINE via ZOOM on Monday, August 23, 2021 at 7:00pm. Our topic is Preview/Review.
It's our annual look back at the best and worst of the summer movies, and what to expect from the upcoming fall/winter season. As we ventured back to the theaters, have the movies met our expectations so far? Are we looking forward to the rest of what 2021 has to offer?
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.
Calendar of Events
FILMS
A number of film series at the AFI Silver Theater include a Spike Lee Retrospective, Big Screen Classics (films from the 1940s, 50s and 60s, some of which are in 35mm), Modern Big Screen Classics (films from the 1970s, 80s and 90s), and Contemporary Cinema (films from the 2000s and 2010s). Korean director Hong Sang-Soo's film The Woman Who Ran (2020) has a one-week run.
"Films on the Green DC" is a series of French films shown outdoors in DC Parks. Starting time: sunset, bring your own chair or blanket. On August 4 at the US National Arboretum is Microcosmos; on August 21 at the Maison Francaise is Summer Hours and on August 26 at the Sylvan Theater is Compulsive Liar.
