November 9, 2020
AFI Movie Club: FIRST WIVES CLUB
A deliciously satisfying revenge comedy starring three icons as divorcées dedicated to living their best lives, THE FIRST WIVES CLUB features the talents of Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and AFI Life Achievement Award recipient Diane Keaton. Click Here to Find Out How to Watch THE FIRST WIVES CLUB Now THE THE FIRST WIVES CLUB –…
November 7, 2020
AFI Movie Club: HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE
A magician in his own right, AFI Life Achievement Award recipient John Williams brought the magic of his music to another iconic franchise in helping to tell the epic story of Harry Potter – beginning with HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE. The entire eight-film saga was honored with an AFI SPECIAL AWARD in 2011….
November 7, 2020
AFI Movie Club: SAVING FACE
SAVING FACE, directed by Alice Wu and starring Michelle Krusiec (DWW Class of 2021) and Joan Chen, follows Wilhelmina “Wil” Pang, a gay Chinese-American doctor whose life is upended when she finds herself juggling her unwed, pregnant mother unexpectedly moving in with her and a burgeoning relationship with a ballet dancer (Lynn Chen). Click Here…
November 6, 2020
AFI Movie Club: DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST
Set on a Navajo reservation, DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST, directed by Sydney Freeland, follows the intertwined lives of three young Native Americans – a soon-to-be father who is about to start basic training, an adopted daughter of Christian missionaries and a transgender beauty pageant contestant. Click Here to Find Out How to Watch DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST Now DRUNKTOWN’S…
November 5, 2020
AFI Movie Club: THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO is about the city’s rapid gentrification and a man trying to reclaim a family home. Director/writer Joe Talbot and lead actor Jimmie Fails spoke to Fellows at a Harold Lloyd Master Seminar at the AFI Conservatory. Fails was also an Indie Contenders panelist at AFI FEST presented by…
November 4, 2020
AFI Movie Club: HAMILTON
Audiences at home could at long last feel as if they were in “the room where it happened,” when creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking and record-breaking Broadway blockbuster, HAMILTON, finally made its spectacular screen debut this past summer. Click Here to Find Out How to Watch HAMILTON Now HAMILTON – Reelgood Watch Debra Messing introduce the…
November 2, 2020
AFI Movie Club: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1962)
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY’s tyrannical Captain Bligh ranked #19 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Heroes & Villains list of the greatest villains of all time. The film’s Fletcher Christian, played by Marlon Brando, was named by AFI as one of cinema’s most iconic screen legends. Click Here to Find Out How to Watch MUTINY ON THE…
November 1, 2020
AFI Movie Club: THE FLORIDA PROJECT
THE FLORIDA PROJECT was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2017 as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. The film stars Academy Award® nominee Willem Dafoe and newcomer Brooklynn Prince and juxtaposes “the high-stakes struggles of adults and the untethered innocence of childhood.” Brooklynn Prince Click Here…
October 31, 2020
AFI Movie Club: HALLOWEEN
Watch Jamie Lee Curtis go “Behind the Scene” in today’s AFI exclusive video – Watch now HALLOWEEN is a pioneering prototype of the enduring slasher genre – establishing many of the tropes and conventions that course through even the most contemporary installments, while also building a distinct iconography all its own. One of the most…
October 30, 2020
AFI Movie Club: THE SHINING
THE SHINING features the talents of Shelley Duvall and AFI Life Achievement Award winner Jack Nicholson and appears on three of the American Film Institute’s lists, including recognition of Nicholson’s terrifying Jack Torrance as one of the screen’s greatest villains. Click Here to Find Out How to Watch THE SHINING Now THE SHINING – Reelgood Watch Freida…
October 29, 2020
AFI Movie Club: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
It was more than a half century ago this week that director George A. Romero first unleashed an iconic, unholy terror upon an unsuspecting movie-going populace. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD has shambled its way inexorably and pervasively onto the popular landscape – and is ranked #93 on AFI’s list of the most thrilling American films…
October 28, 2020
AFI Movie Club: PAN’S LABYRINTH
PAN’S LABYRINTH, directed by horror auteur Guillermo del Toro, is a tale of young Ofelia’s journey into a magical yet macabre underworld. The Academy Award®-winning film screened at AFI FEST 2006 presented by Audi. Click Here to Find Out How to Watch PAN’S LABYRINTH Now PAN’S LABYRINTH – Reelgood Watch Emilia Clarke announce the film:…
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