D.C.

      Established in the fall of 1992 at the Key Theatre, our Washington D.C. chapter is the original location of the Key Sunday Cinema Club. The Club's founding owners, David and Seena Levy, operated specialty theatres in the D.C. area for years. The Cinema Club continued to prosper even when the Levys decided to close the Key Theatre in 1997. The D.C. KSCC now resides under the direction of Andrew Mencher at the Avalon Theatre. Peter Brunette, also our Artistic Director, continues to lead stimulating discussions following our advanced art film screenings on Sunday mornings.

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RECENT FILMS SCREENED BY OUR D.C. CLUB
96% on the Key Meter	I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG After 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.
96% on the Key Meter	SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions.
91% on the Key Meter	STRANDED: I'VE COME FROM A PLANE THAT CRASHED ON THE MOUNTAINS On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile... and then vanished into thin air. Two days before Christmas, 16 of the 45 passengers miraculously resurfaced. They had managed to survive for 72 days after their plane crashed on a remote Andean glacier. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to the crash site -- known as the Valley of Tears -- to recount their harrowing story of defiant endurance and indestructible friendship. Previously documented in the 1973 worldwide bestseller ALIVE (and the 1993 Ethan Hawke movie of the same name), this shocking true story finally gets the cinematic treatment it deserves. Visually breathtaking and crafted with riveting detail by documentary filmmaker (and childhood friend of the survivors) Gonzalo Arijon with a masterful combination of on-location interviews, archival footage and reenactments, STRANDED is by turns hauntingly powerful and spiritually moving.
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Moderator Peter Brunette

Peter Brunette is currently Reynolds Professor of Film Studies at Wake Forest University, after teaching nearly three decades at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He has written or edited seven books on film, including Roberto Rossellini, the definitive study in English of this director's films (Oxford University Press, 1987; republished University of California Press, 1996); Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory (Princeton University Press, 1990; co-authored with David Wills); a co-edited book (with David Wills) on visual theory published by Cambridge University Press in 1994, entitled Deconstruction and the Visual Arts: Art, Media, Architecture; and a book on François Truffaut's film SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Rutgers, 1993). In the fall of 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni and, in January 1999, his edited book, Martin Scorsese: Interviews, was published by the University of Mississippi Press. His book on Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2005. He is also general editor of the Mississippi interview series; nearly 60 books have already been published in this series. After a decade as a film critic for Film.com, indieWIRE.com, and the trade paper Screen International, he now regularly reviews films for The Hollywood Reporter, in addition to being a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and several other newspapers. He is currently writing books on the Austrian director Michael Haneke and on the Italian master Luchino Visconti. He is the artistic director of the Key Sunday Cinema Club.

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