NEW HAVEN

      Established in the fall of 2000, our New Haven chapter has grown to be one of our most successful club cities. Arnold Gorlick enthusiastically hosts our club at the Madison Art Cinemas. John MacKay and Michael Kerbel continue to lead stimulating discussions following our advanced Sunday morning art film screenings.

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RECENT FILMS SCREENED BY OUR NEW HAVEN CLUB
na% on the Key Meter	TIMECRIMES Lauded short film director Vigalondo makes his feature debut with this tense, unstoppable vision of science and natural law gone awry. A man who accidentally travels back into the past and meets himself. A naked girl in the middle of the forest. A mysterious stranger with his face wrapped in a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the top of a hill. All pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. Who's the murderer? Who's the victim? TIMECRIMES takes a bold, difficult premise and brings the rarely-tread time travel framework to pulse-pounding but intelligent new heights.
72% on the Key Meter	SHALL WE KISS? The movie begins in Nantes, where a chance encounter between a Parisian fabric designer (Julie Gayet) and a local art restorer (Michael Cohen) leads to dinner, drinks and nearly to the titular meeting of the lips. But wait, the woman says -- first, she must tell a cautionary tale about how a similarly innocent smooch created seismic shifts in the relationships of two other couples. That story then plays out in flashback, with the hangdog Mouret perfectly self-cast as a lovelorn schoolteacher who falls for his best female friend (Virginie Ledoyen), no matter that she's happily married and he's dating a beautiful stewardess (played by ebulliently ditsy Frederique Bel). I'll say no more about how it all ends up, except that Mouret marries Rohmer's visual lucidity and love of smart dialogue to the sort of screwball-comedy antics that wouldn't have seemed out of place in the films of Lubitsch or Hawks, and he does it all with a beguiling lightness of touch. - Scott Foundas, LA Weekly
82% on the Key Meter	HUMBOLDT COUNTY Peter 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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Co-Moderator John MacKay

John MacKay studied at the University of British Columbia, the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, and Yale University. He is now an assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale, specializing in Russian film, 19th and 20th century Russian literature, and the theory of film and literature. He has translated essays on film by Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Rudolf Arnheim, Siegfried Kracauer, and Imre Kertesz, and is currently working on a project about Dziga Vertov and the documentary tradition.

Co-Moderator Michael Kerbel

Michael Kerbel received his graduate degree in film from the Columbia University School of the Arts. He is Director of the Yale Film Study Center - which houses the University's extensive film and video collection (approximately 22,000 films on celluloid, DVD and VHS) - and is Lecturer in Yale's Film Studies and American Studies Programs. His courses at Yale include U.S. Cinema from 1960 to the Mid-1970s and The Films of Woody Allen, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Trinity College (Hartford), the University of Bridgeport and the University of New Haven. His publications include two books on film actors and articles on film and television for The Village Voice, Cineaste, Film Comment, The Movie and others. He has been guest lecturer for the Yale Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art and many media education groups and institutes.

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