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SPIDER-MAN 2 film still of Tobey Maguire

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...
Marie Antoinette Film Still

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...
The Virgin Suicides Film Still - Kirsten Dunst, A.J. Cook, Leslie Hayman, and Chelse Swain

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...
The Power of the Dog Film Still - Benedict Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-McPhee

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...
The Power of the Dog Film Still - Benedict Cumberbatch

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...
The Virgin Suicides Film Still - Leslie Hayman, Kirsten Dunst and A. J. Cook

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...
The Power of the Dog Film Still - Benedict Cumberbatch

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...

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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