ATLANTA
Established in the fall of 1998, our Atlanta chapter has grown to be one of our most successful club cities. Matthew Bernstein continues to lead stimulating discussions following our advanced Sunday morning art film screenings at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinemas.
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I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONGAfter more than a decade apart, estranged sisters Juliette and Lea try to rebuild their fractured relationship. But the task is hardly easy, considering Juliette's past. She's been in jail for 15 years -- for killing her own son. As she settles into small-town life with Lea's family, the locals can't help but talk. |
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HUMBOLDT COUNTYPeter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer named Bogart rolling through Los Angeles. He accompanies her to the northern-most tip of California, where he encounters her eccentric family of pot farmers. But when Bogart runs away without a word, Peter is thrust into the picturesque and bizarre world that is Humboldt County. |
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HAPPY-GO-LUCKYPoppy, an irrepressibly free-spirited school teacher, brings an infectious laugh and an unsinkable sense of optimism to every situation she encounters, offering us a touching, truthful and deeply life-affirming exploration of one of the most mysterious and often the most elusive of all human qualities: happiness. Poppy's ability to maintain her perspective is tested as the story begins and her commuter bike is stolen. However, she enthusiastically signs up for driving lessons with Scott, who turns out to be her nemesis -- a fuming, uptight cynic. |
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Moderator Matthew Bernstein
Matthew Bernstein is currently a Professor and Departement Chair of Film Studies at Emory University, where he teaches and runs the graduate program in Film Studies. Matthew received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987. He researches and teaches courses on Hollywood, Japanese cinema, nonfiction film, postwar European cinema, and African-Americans in film. He has written a film producer biography titled, Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), co-edited Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film (Rutgers University Press, 1987) and John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era (Indiana University Press, 2000), and he edited Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era (Rutgers, 1999). He is on the editorial board of Cinema Journal, the Journal of Film and Video, and he is Book Review Editor for Film Quarterly. His reviews and essays have appeared in those journals and in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, Film History and Post Script, as well as several anthologies. Twice awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Matthew's new book, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and TV, will be published in early 2009 by the University of Georgia Press. Matthew is currently writing books on Michael Moore and on the history of film-going in Atlanta -- of which the Key Sunday Cinema Club is an important chapter. For more information, click here.
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