July 22, 2025
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) – AFI Movie Club
“This is your mission, should you choose to accept it…” Bringing Bruce Geller’s classic espionage series to the big screen to ignite what would become one of cinema’s most iconic and long-running action franchises, director Brian De Palma’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) also turned Tom Cruise’s stardom into a supernova – with pulse-pounding thrills driven a...
June 27, 2024
FOXCATCHER (2014) – AFI Movie Club
Directed by Bennett Miller and co-edited by AFI Alum Jay Cassidy (AFI Class of 1976), FOXCATCHER (2014) was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2014, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official rationale, “FOXCATCHER paints a complex, haunting portrait of America...
December 13, 2020
AFI Movie Club: JULIA
Based on the writing of legendary playwright Lillian Hellman, JULIA (1977) depicts Hellman’s close-knit friendship with the eponymous heroine who became a full-fledged anti-Fascist while studying medicine in Austria when Hitler came to power. The film features the talent of two AFI Life Achievement Award recipients: Jane Fonda as Hellman herself and Meryl Streep in…
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