About
Film Club is a Manhattan-based monthly screening series dedicated to enriching our understanding of film by exploring and explicating great films of the past. Films are presented with an introduction by notable film critics, historians, theorists and filmmakers.
These films are viewed as they were meant to be - on a big screen, as an experience shared with a room full of people - to allow a deeper appreciation of them. Questions explored throughout the series include: what do these films teach us about genre and narrative? Why and how are they influential? What devices do they use to comment on the medium of film or the human condition?
Beer and soft drinks will be available at all Film Club events. Fun is encouraged.
Film Club is operated by Mariah Balaban. Contact her at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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“What is Cinema? We might as well ask “What is life?”, for film, like life, is made of moments; moments in time, held aloft for our perusal, imprinted on our soul, and then brought back to us from time to time as a memory—by an event, a vision, a sound, an emotion. The separation becomes trivial—cinema is life, and life cinema: around us, beside us, inside us. The cinema, then, is not to be consumed with haste; films are not to be digested simply as they unfold, like some plastic-wrapped fast-food. Created by light and celluloid, they live only in our minds and in our hearts, savoured both during and after the fact. Projected onto the screen and into our consciousness, where they are replayed over and over—continually re-discovered artefacts which are constantly changing us. What, then, can we say is truly real? A memory? An event? A celluloid image? The answer lies in the cinema. All is real. Nothing is impossible.” - Glen Norton