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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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ALL THE BEAUTY AND BLOODSHED


Saturday, 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.

PREVIOUS CINEMA CLUB SESSIONS

EMPIRE OF LIGHT


Saturday, December 10 at 11am


Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, Empire of Light is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema, from Academy Award®-winning director Sam Mendes. Featuring a stellar cast led by Academy Award winner Olivia Colman, BAFTA winner Micheal Ward, and Academy Award winner Colin Firth.


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.

WOMEN TALKING


Saturday, November 12 at 11am


Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking follows a group of women (Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand) in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

 

Moderator: Megan Feeney

Guest Speaker: Professor Elaine Tyler May is Regents Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. A leader for decades in the field of U.S. women's history, her work centers on the intersections of gender, sexuality, domestic culture and politics in the 20th and 21st centuries, emphasizing the inextricable links between the private and public spheres.



TAR


Saturday, October 8 at 11am


From producer-writer-director Todd Field (In the Bedroom), Cate Blanchett stars as one of the greatest living composer-conductors in this stirring psychological thriller which will elicit a vibrant discussion. TÁR examines the changing nature of power, its impact and durability in our modern world. 

  

Moderator: Megan Feeney


Guest Speaker: Dr. Rena Kraut is the Executive Director of the Cuban American Youth Orchestra, a non-profit organization which promotes US/Cuba cultural diplomacy through collaboration, performance and education. A professional musician and educator, Dr. Kraut is a clarinetist appearing frequently with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and IRIS Orchestra.