Summer Fridays Movie Club
We’ll be seeing the following films on Fridays around 4PM in a theater somewhere near Chelsea. Let me know if you want to join and I’ll put you on the email list for reminders.
June 1: Snow White & the Huntsman
Director: Rupert Sanders
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, and Charlize Theron
When an evil queen tries to have beautiful stepdaughter Snow White murdered, she joins up with her would-be assassin and eight (!) dwarves to mount a revolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnsPDKU8fDg
June 8: Prometheus
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, and Michael Fassbender
A team of explorers fights a battle with a bizarre alien life form at the edge of the universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftuxbvGwiU
June 15: The Woman in the Fifth
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Joanna Kulig
A disgraced writer becomes involved in a series of murders after starting a relationship with a beautiful widow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU1b3ELNL-U
June 22: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Starring: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Melinda Dillon
There are funnier subjects for a comedy than the apocalypse, but if anyone can pull it off, it’s the eternally likable Steve Carell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7FKVAuDv8M&ob=av3e
June 29: Magic Mike
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, Joe Mangianello, Olivia Munn
A dramatic comedy set in the world of male strippers. The film follows Mike as he takes a young dancer under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of picking up women and making easy money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd0XPRo4LZQ
July 6: The Amazing Spider-Man
Director: Marc Webb
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Rhys Ifans
This reboot of the Spider-Man franchise sees Peter Parker using his newly earned spider powers to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his parents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XayxMPrUP4
July 13: Ted
(This one is most likely to be substituted for something else, depending on reviews.)
Director: Seth MacFarlane
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and the voice of Seth MacFarlane
A grown man faces the real world alongside his childhood teddy bear, which has grown into a boorish, lecherous extension of himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxKfC77XAp8
July 20: The Dark Knight Rises
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, and Tom Hardy
Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, Gotham City is threatened by the menacing terrorist Bane, forcing Bruce Wayne to put on the cape and cowl once again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8evyE9TuYk
July 27: Ruby Sparks
Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Starring: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, and Annette Bening
A struggling young novelist writes himself a love interest who comes to life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDYLqkxg2Uc
August 10: The Campaign
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, and Jason Sudeikis
Two ambitious politicians battle for a seat representing North Carolina in the House of Representatives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7yC0iiK7a4
I don’t want this shoe as much as I want to walk past somebody on the street wearing it.
As Pablo [Picasso] once remarked, when you make a thing, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly, but those that do it after you they don’t have to worry about making it and they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when the others make it.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Franklin & Dean, Brooklyn.
Nostrand & Atlantic, Brooklyn.
Franklin & Fulton, Brooklyn.
Kiss the DJ.
Pretty lady on the B48 bus home.
Franklin Ave. & Eastern Parkway.
Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
