
July 28, 2022
WIDOWS (2018) – AFI Movie Club
Featuring an all-star cast on a mission fueled by righteous rage led by Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo and Elizabeth Debicki, director Steve McQueen’s WIDOWS came to AFI FEST in 2018 for a special Gala screening. HOW TO WATCH Where to stream WIDOWS WIDOWS - Reelgood GET THE LATEST FROM AFI MOVIE CLUB AFI...

May 9, 2022
GET OUT (2017) – AFI Movie Club
Both a psychological thriller and a deft social satire on racism in America, director Jordan Peele’s GET OUT (2017) was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2017, recognizing it as one of the 10 outstanding films deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the...

February 13, 2021
AFI Movie Club: AFI AWARDS Honoree JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
"JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH raises a fist for change. Capturing the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s that echoes into our modern moment, Shaka King’s timely tragedy burns with righteous rage and Shakespearean turns on power and betrayal. Towering performances by Daniel Kaluuya as Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton and LaKeith Stanfield as FBI...

August 27, 2020
AFI Movie Club: GET OUT
Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed GET OUT is both a psychological thriller and a deft social satire on racism in America. The film was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2017, recognizing it as one of the 10 outstanding films deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving...

June 5, 2020
AFI Movie Club: BLACK PANTHER
BLACK PANTHER “shatters and reshapes cultural mythology.” Ryan Coogler’s super-heroic vision was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2018 – recognizing it as one of the 10 outstanding films deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. Movie Trivia about BLACK PANTHER -DID YOU KNOW that BLACK PANTHER…

November 12, 2019
AFI FEST Interview: QUEEN & SLIM’s Lead Actor Daniel Kaluuya
QUEEN & SLIM is the Opening Night film at AFI FEST on Thursday, November 14 at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood. QUEEN & SLIM is the powerful feature directorial debut of AFI alum Melina Matsoukas from a provocative and poetic script written by Lena Waithe. The film starts on a cold night in the…

August 28, 2019
QUEEN & SLIM World Premiere To Open AFI FEST 2019
AFI Alumna Melina Matsoukas’s Feature Film Directorial Debut to Launch 33rd Edition of Festival on Thursday, November 14 The 33rd edition of AFI FEST presented by Audi will open with the world premiere of Makeready and Universal Pictures’ QUEEN & SLIM. Directed by two-time Grammy® winner Melina Matsoukas (AFI Class of 2005) and written by…

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