July 19, 2023
SPIDER-MAN 2 (2004) – AFI Movie Club
A magnificently ambitious and ebullient realization of comic book style, aesthetic and dynamics on the big screen, director Sam Raimi’s SPIDER-MAN 2 leavened its colorful action with the human concerns of its central characters – deepening the dysfunction between Tobey Maguire’s hapless, luckless Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson. The film was honored...
March 8, 2023
MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) – AFI Movie Club
Director of MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006), Sofia Coppola exploded onto the festival scene with her directorial debut, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. With her second film, LOST IN TRANSLATION, Coppola earned more accolades, including the Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay and nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. In...
February 11, 2023
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999) – AFI Movie Club
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola was honored at AFI FEST 2020 for a powerful and poignant body of work that began with THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999), starring Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods and Kathleen Turner. Visit the AFI Catalog to learn more about THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. HOW TO WATCH Where to stream THE VIRGIN...
January 24, 2023
THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021) – AFI Movie Club
THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021) was recognized in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD, naming it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, “THE POWER OF THE DOG looks to the hills for secrets unseen – and finds them in powerful, poetic images that transport...
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 9, 2022
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999) – AFI Movie Club
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola was honored at AFI FEST 2020 for a powerful and poignant body of work that began with THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, starring Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, and Kathleen Turner. HOW TO WATCH Where to stream THE VIRGIN SUICIDES THE VIRGIN SUICIDES - Reelgood GET THE LATEST FROM AFI MOVIE...
November 11, 2021
AFI Movie Club: THE POWER OF THE DOG
The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers (Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons) are wealthy ranchers in Montana. Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil’s romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. At the Red Mill restaurant...
November 6, 2017
AFI FEST Spotlight on Conversations: Sofia Coppola Talks THE BEGUILED
As part of AFI FEST’s Conversations section, Sofia Coppola will sit down for a moderated, in-depth discussion of her latest film, THE BEGUILED, on Saturday, November 11. The film is set at an all-female Southern boarding school during the American Civil War. When the women bring an injured Union soldier into the school to recover,…
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