"The Clubhouse"will soon opening in the BCP "Hex Room", and the grand opening event will be on Tuesday, November 28.
Food and drink will not be available for purchase by our film-goers until the Clubhouse opens, so for the next two weeks, you may continue to bring your own food and drink.
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We don't charge admission, but do ask for donations to pay to support BCP and the Film Club program.
Upcoming Films:
- 11/26 - Sideways (USA - 2004)
- 12/3 - Queen of Katwe (USA - 2016)
- 12/10 - Columbus (USA - 2017)
- 12/17 - The Iron Giant (USA - 1999)
- 12/24 - Joyeux Noël (2005 - France)
( I did a lot of research and put a lot of thought into selecting films for the holiday season, and chose two films to be screened before Christmas based on my strong association of Christmas with an admonition to seek "peace on earth." Both films show the possibilities of peace - and how hard it is to achieve and maintain. The Iron Giant setting is small-town Maine from fall to winter in 1957. Joyeux Noël is based on the true story of allied and German soldiers setting down their rifles and fraternizing on Christmas day, 1914 during the bloody trench warfare in France during WWI.)
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Sunday, November 19 @ 1:00pm - Donnie Darko (USA - 2001) 1hr, 53 minutes
Ratings: 8.1 - IMDB, 86% - Rotten Tomatoes, 5/5 - The Guardian
Continuing our journey through the world of independent, international, and other non-mainstream films, this coming Sunday we will screen the original theatrical version of "Donnie Darko", and not the director's cut with it's added 20 minutes that many say explains too many of the "mysteries" that make the original release a cult favorite. This film was not a hit at the box office when it was released in 1999, but it has since become a cult classic that shows up near the top of many lists of independent films.
From The Guardian (UK):
In 2001, 27-year-old writer-director Richard Kelly created a pop classic of American suburban paranoia in Donnie Darko, ... a movie with something of Back to the Future, Twin Peaks, American Beauty and of course Harvey. This film made Tears for Fears hip (kind of) and had a tremendous discovery in the young Jake Gyllenhaal, playing Donnie, a high-school kid on medication for the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. When a jet engine falls out of the sky one day on Donnie's house, an event that would have killed Donnie had he not been sleepwalking around the local golf course, it creates an anxiety spasm that ruptures his already fragile wellbeing and he hallucinates a huge, scarily voiced rabbit that tells him to commit acts of violence. I remember being a bit reserved about Donnie Darko the first time around, perhaps because we were suffering Gen X overload in those days. Watched again now, it is captivating. Donnie Darko has a political and satirical flavour that wasn't as strong at the time: it is set in 1988, the chastened end of Ronald Reagan's comforting reign. There are acid references to Michael Dukakis and Dan Quayle.LINK to a very good review: The LA Times revisits "Donnie Darko" with a 2017 review.
David van Harn Curator, Boquete Film Club
Link to trailer
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