Cinema Club
CINEMA CLUB
It’s like book club for cinephiles!
On the second Saturday of each month at 11am, we invite MSP Film Society Members to watch a selected movie with us at The Main Cinema and join a discussion led by a member of our programming team, a film critic, and/or a subject expert.
Cinema Club movie selections range from sneak previews to awards contenders to classic movies that will have you talking. Be ready to share your unique perspective on what we screen with other attendees.
Cinema Club is FREE for MSP Film Society Members – so join or renew today to get in on the action! Some screenings of current releases may also be made available to general audiences at regular ticket prices.
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Sat Sept 9 at 11am
ABOUT THE FILM Cinema Club Cinema Club Moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation with Micaela Schuneman, JD, Senior Director of Immigration and Refugee Services at the International Institute of Minnesota (IIMN), where she oversees the departments that provide immigration legal services and social services for newly-arrived refugees and other immigrants.
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PREVIOUS CINEMA CLUB SESSIONS
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Sat July 8 at 11am
ABOUT THE FILM Cinema Club Moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation with guest experts Declara Tripp and Joanne Hodgeman, family liaisons at Village Arms, a Minneapolis non-profit that delivers culturally-specific services to African American families towards addressing inequities and disparate outcomes in the child welfare system. |
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Sat May 13 at 11am
ABOUT THE FILM Moderator: Megan Feeney
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Sat April 8 at 11amSpecial Cinema Club Guest: Director Bill Pohlad Join us for the April Cinema Club with Special Guest, Director Bill Pohlad as a preamble to MSPIFF's Opening Night on April 13th, showing his newest film, Dreamin' Wild, which he will also be attending.
ABOUT THE FILM
Made with the full cooperation of the musician and his wife, Love & Mercy offers a never-before-seen glimpse of Wilson, the boy genius who co-wrote such ebullient pop hits as “Surfer Girl” and “Fun, Fun, Fun” and the game-changing masterpieces “Good Vibrations” and “God Only Knows” before disappearing from the public eye for years. Actors Paul Dano and John Cusack share the role of the troubled musical virtuoso who defined the “California sound” with sumptuous harmonies and visions of endless summers of surf and sand.
Spanning more than three decades of Wilson’s life, the film reveals the darker and more complex story that lies beneath the music’s sun-kissed surface, including Wilson’s battle with mental illness and drug abuse, his years under the influence of therapist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti) and his redemptive relationship with Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks), all in the context of his unparalleled musicianship. Moderator: Megan Feeney
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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Sat March 11 at 11amNominated for 11 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert), Best Lead Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Best Original Score (Son Lux), Best Original Screenplay (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert), Best Film Editing (Paul Rogers), Best Original Song, Best Costume Design (Shirley Kurata)
ABOUT THE FILM Moderator Megan Feeney Cinema Club is generously sponsored by Julie and Charlie Zelle
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Sat Feb 11 at 11amEmily imagines Emily Brontë’s own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, Wuthering Heights. Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time. Moderator Megan Feeney will be joined by Prof. Emeritus Diana Postlethwaite, an expert in 19th-century British fiction and film. |
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ALL THE BEAUTY AND BLOODSHEDSaturday, January 14 at 11am
Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis. Cinema Club Moderator: Moderator: Megan Feeney Megan Feeney, Ph.D. has taught film studies at the University of Minnesota and Saint Olaf College, and is the author of Hollywood in Havana: U.S. Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959 (University of Chicago Press, 2019). She currently contributes to Cineaste, a quarterly film journal out of New York City. Special Guest: Keri Pickett Keri Pickett is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, author and artist. She started her career in 1983 at the Village Voice, where she chronicled life in New York City—including the regulars at Tin Pan Alley, and several of her photos are included in All The Beauty And The Bloodshed. Pickett’s photographs have been exhibited in museums around the world and appeared in Life, Time and People magazines. She has been awarded fellowships from the Bush, McKnight, Jerome, and Target Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. In the 2000s she turned her skills toward making documentary films, including MSPIFF-winners The Fabulous Ice Age and First Daughter and the Black Snake. Her most recent, Finding Her Beat, which she co-Directed and served as Cinematographer, is currently enjoying an extended run on the festival circuit.
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