March 24, 2022
THE WHITE LOTUS – AFI Movie Club
"THE WHITE LOTUS blooms to reveal the unbearable whiteness of being – unmasking the superficialities of privilege in the capitalist class with the half-wink of a Botoxed eye. Set against a backdrop of paradise lost, Mike White’s searing social satire unfolds at a vacation’s pace, allowing room for each of its epically excellent ensemble to...
March 23, 2022
Congratulations to the AFI Alumni who are Guild Award Winners!
AFI is excited to celebrate the outstanding work of our Alumni and the incredible stories they’ve shared with audiences around the world this year. Congratulations to all of the extraordinary members of the AFI community who have been nominated by the guilds this year. We especially enjoy seeing AFI Alumni lifting one another up as...
March 23, 2022
SUMMER OF SOUL (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) takes the stage at a time when its message matters most. Transporting audiences back to the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, with footage previously thought lost to history, Questlove turns back time and welcomes all into the embrace of a joyful, life-affirming event. This sublime...
March 22, 2022
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"NIGHTMARE ALLEY leads us down a path paved by American classics and emerges anew as a modern miracle. Guillermo del Toro’s funhouse of filmdom expertly refracts humanity in warped, distorted mirrors – and invites us to enjoy the ride. Bradley Cooper’s transformative turn reaffirms his place as a leading man looking for more; he and an...
March 21, 2022
BELFAST (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"BELFAST stands as a monument to the power of childhood memory – where hope lives on despite the view from behind barbed wire. Set inside the war zone of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Kenneth Branagh’s tenderly crafted cinematic memoir is a loving look at the ones who left, the ones who stayed and the...
March 18, 2022
DON’T LOOK UP (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"DON’T LOOK UP rockets into the stratosphere of hilariously dark satires, entering the orbit of DR. STRANGELOVE and other American classics. Illuminated by a stellar cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep, Adam McKay annihilates modern day tribalism, a complicit media and willful American ignorance by infusing belly laughs to transform this disaster...
March 16, 2022
AFI Announces 2022 Young Women in Film Intensive
AFI is thrilled to announce the launch of the third Young Women in Film (YWIF) intensive. The nine-week filmmaking workshop will be held on the AFI Campus in Los Angeles for 50 female-identifying high school students from ICEF (Inner City Education Foundation) View Park Preparatory High School, Immaculate Heart, Synergy Quantum Academy High School and...
March 16, 2022
tick, tick… BOOM! (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"tick, tick… BOOM! earns its exclamation point – an explosive testament to the driving powers of inspiration, aspiration and determination. Lin-Manuel Miranda soars to new heights with this enduring valentine to Jonathan Larson by exploring not just what it means to write, to direct, to produce…but to create. This high-energy, high-drama musical is driven forward...
March 15, 2022
KING RICHARD (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"KING RICHARD ascends the throne of America’s most inspiring movies in this story of Venus and Serena Williams’ rise to become the greatest tennis players in history. Reinaldo Marcus Green’s sure hand charts this journey by focusing on family and the eternal, paternal drive that not only ensures opportunity, but insists on it. Will Smith’s...
March 14, 2022
THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"THE POWER OF THE DOG looks to the hills for secrets unseen – and finds them in powerful, poetic images that transport audiences with a modern look back at the American West. This landmark work proves Jane Campion’s unparalleled ability to capture a world of breathless beauty and breathtaking brutality, both wrapped tight as a...
March 13, 2022
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH burns and bubbles with power and passion – a stark cinematic rendering of William Shakespeare’s immortal work. Joel Coen richly imagines this bloody tale of hubris as a gothic fever dream where “fair is foul and foul is fair”– a monumental achievement, and one in which only titans as towering as...
March 12, 2022
DUNE (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"DUNE transports audiences to new worlds and immerses them in a vision so pure that the power of art is forever proven. This epic vision is painted with the brush of a master, Denis Villeneuve, whose exquisite adaptation mines its rich source material to reimagine one of pop culture’s sacred texts as an experience that...
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