June 1, 2026
MOONLIGHT (2016) – AFI Movie Club
From writer/director Barry Jenkins, MOONLIGHT was honored in 2016 with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image – with the official rationale stating that, “MOONLIGHT illuminates the peerless power of cinema to inspire empathy for others and embrace a greater understanding of...
February 23, 2025
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023) – AFI Movie Club
Expanding the mind-bendingly colorful world of its predecessor with expansive ideas that reshape audience conceptions of what a superhero movie can be, SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023) was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2023, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the...
November 12, 2021
AFI Movie Club: SWAN SONG
Marking the debut feature from Academy Award®-winning writer/director Benjamin Cleary and making its world premiere at AFI FEST 2021, SWAN SONG (2021) features hauntingly elegiac cinematography by AFI Alum Masanobu Takayanagi (AFI Class of 2002). HOW TO WATCH Where to stream SWAN SONG SWAN SONG - Reelgood GET THE LATEST FROM AFI MOVIE CLUB AFI...
April 26, 2020
AFI Movie Club: MOONLIGHT
MOONLIGHT, a poetic tour de force, was one of the 2016 AFI AWARD honorees and “illuminates the peerless power of cinema to inspire empathy for others and embrace a greater understanding of ourselves.” Movie Trivia for MOONLIGHT: –DID YOU KNOW MOONLIGHT is based on an unpublished play written by Tarell Alvin McCraney called “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue”? –DID…
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