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NOTE: Due to excessive contruction in and around Lincoln Center I highly suggest that you pick up your ticket for this event IN ADVANCE. Reason being, it'll allow you to find your way around to the theater at your own pace so you won't get lost rushing to find it on Sunday morning.

PLEASE indicate that you have purchased your ticket in the comments box.

New York Women in Film & TV NYWIFT and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will once again celebrate the strong presence of women in Latin American filmmaking with a brunch and panel discussion at the Latinbeat Film Festival.

Kill Them All / Matar a todos
Screening time: Sep 7: 1:00*
Meetup time: 11:30am**
**11:30am brunch & conversation with Latin American filmmakers
* Q&A with actor Roxana Blanco after screening

Adult tickets: $11.00 each (CASH ONLY @ the BOXOFFICE)

An Uruguayan human rights prosecutor (played by Roxana Blanco) in post-junta Montevideo must investigate her own family’s role in the country’s military past after the covered-up kidnapping of a notorious Chilean biochemical engineer.

Based on real events, Esteban Schroeder’s second film is narrated through the point of view of a strong yet vulnerable woman who has embarked on a crusade to defend the values of her country’s hard-earned democracy.

Shedding light on the complex web of secret connections woven by Operation Condor, a 1970s initiative that allowed dictatorships to help each other hide evidence, Kill Them All daringly captures the vulnerability of young Latin American democracies to the legacy and dark histories they are trying to leave behind, while finding ample reason for hope.

Starring the extraordinary Roxana Blanco, who won Best Actress at the Havana Film Festival, film’s outstanding cast and compelling noir imagery inject the story with a sense of utmost urgency. Roxana Blanco is a new shining star throughout Latin America. Her work in theater and film includes Alma Mater from Uruguay/Brazil, Nochebuena from Colombia and Kill Them All from Chile/Argentina/Uruguay. Blanco has won 11 Best Actress awards.

Director: Esteban Schroeder, Release: 2007, Runtime: 97
Uruguay/Chile/Argentina/Germany

Online ticketing ($1.25 service charge)

I will be holding one table at the BRUNCH (seats 6-8). This brunch/screening is a very popular event @ the 2008 Latinbeat Film Festival, so get your tickets ahead of time before RSVPing YES.

Latinbeat & theater info

NYWIFT info

BAGHEAD
Group arrival: 8:15pm
BUY TICKETS for 8:30pm showing

From the guys that brought you the Mumblecore road comedy "The Puffy Chair" comes the best send-up of the DIY horrormovie genre to date. More laughs than scares, and if you saw the recent Liv Tyler shocker "The Strangers" you'll be amazed at how perfectly "Baghead" satirizes it (even though both were made at the same time).

Mumblecore fans UNITE!!! The Duplass Bros. have found a away to make zero-budget "mumblecore" filmmaking both funny and slightly scary. Nothing for gorehounds, but anybody with a sense of humor should get their money's worth in laughter alone.

One BIG NOTE: Don't RSVP just because 20 other people have RSVP'd, only RSVP if you would like to SEE this movie with possibly 4 or 5 other people, because chances are that's how many folks will actually show up. The MeetUp site gives people the opportunity to RSVP for dozens of events happening the same night/same time and many people take the opportunity to do jus that, even at the expense of the meetups they "no-show" for.

I never want to hear the words "is this all the people that showed up?" again. You've now been warned. I cannot enforce attendance. So if you're coming in all the way from New Jersey because some groovy looking guy/gal clicked YES, you're coming for the wrong reasons. Especially since groovy people are notoriously consistent no-shows (in college we called them "flakes").

If you are coming from far away, be advised that 42nd street sidewalk is packed so I will be waiting INSIDE near the escalator that is TO YOUR RIGHT when you enter the lobby. I will also have a MeetUp sign and be wearing a black ballcap with Tribeca Film Festival in white letters on it.

If you decide to hang back and wait for someone else to greet me, then you may be waiting awhile since everybody else will probably doing the same exact thing. Please makes contact, I may need you to grab some seats or hold the fort while I use the rest room (yeah, I'm a pisser).

Note to latecomers, I will only be in the lobby until 8:15pm so that I can secure seats inside the theater for the 8:30 show which may or may not be SOLD OUT depending on the size of the theater.

My recommendation: Buy your tickets in advance & get there early. If neither of those things happens on the day, then it's "on you" to find the group or me (the guy with the black hat in a potentially darkened theater). There's a Film Center Cafe on 9th ave that the group (if one materializes) may go to after the movie if no one objects, so latecomers can also try to catch up with us (or the guy in the black hat) over there.

As you can tell, I have tried to cover every worst case scenario you might encounter. If you've never been to the AMC Empire, it's a 25-theater cineplex that's spread over five floors, which is why I can't waitlong past quarter after in order to make it up the dozen of so escalators needed to get to the theaters. Also, this group has not met in over 6 months so the only person that I'm positive will attend is ME.

Lastly, here's a link for online ticketing: Movieticketscom

There is also a boxoffice (& usually a long line) OR self-serve ticketing machines (for credit-card holders) and will-call pick-ups.

Cassandra's Dream-THIS Sunday, Jan. 27th-BUY tickets for 7:10pm showing
Rated PG-13, 1 hr 48 min

Directed by Woody Allen
Starring: Hayley Atwell, Colin Farrell, Sally Hawkins, Andrew Howard, Ewan McGregor, Tamzin Outhwaite, Mark Umbers, Tom Wilkinson

Meetup in lobby: 6:45pm (if line is long the group may be found in the ticketholders area outside the theater (NOT the lobby), and if the seating has started by 6:45 you will have to locate the group inside the theater -just look for the only people talking to each other and/or the meetup sign)

Pick #2 is this week's WINNER:
Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream - The story of two Cockney brothers (Farrell and McGregor) in south London and their relationship with a young woman (Atwell) who lands in London on her search for fortune. She crosses the two men by accident on her path and when one them falls in love with her, she becomes aware of her power to attract the opposite sex and uses this to the point of leading the two brothers, who are in financial difficulty, into crime, and creating a dangerous rivalry between the two men..

Movie website

Basic agenda is to:

Pick a movie
Buy tickets in advance for yourself/guests
Arrive early to find organizer and/or buy tickets for yourself
Get seats
Then concessions
Then watch film with cellphones OFF
Then gather at the entrance to the theater, wait for rest room users,
and head over to the final discussion destination
Order food, drink, etc.
Discuss film
Divide up check

Let's get this group rebooted for 2008 with a meetup this Sunday:

THE KILLING OF JOHN LENNON
Sunday, Jan 6th - 7:45pm showing/Meetup time: 7:15pm (see How will members find you? info)

Venue: the IFC center
(A-C-E-F-V lines/4th st station, front of train if travelling downtown and vice-versa for the uptown traveller to the West side)

Thanks for voting. "No" RSVPs could have voted too, since a number of people RSVP, vote, and don't show up anyway. So in future don't be shy with your cinematic opinions, it's still a democracy (here, anyway).

More about the movie YOU voted for:

A film by Andrew Piddington (director of "The Fall" featuring Soo Garay), 114 minutes.

Mark David Chapman was a 25-year-old narcissist who gunned down John Lennon outside his apartment in New York in 1980. Meticulously researched and filmed in the actual locations where the events occurred, this drama burrows into Chapman's psyche to explore a stalker's determination to achieve fame by the most horrific of means and his descent into madness and murder.

Interview with director (in print)

MOVIE website

THE GOOD REVIEWS:

"Harrowing... A tour-de-force performance!" - Variety

"Eerily effective dramatization." - Jack Matthews, Daily News

Now those of you who subscribe to other publications may have read some negative reviews about this film, and I've read them too. However, the majority seem to focus on a couple scenes that are basically the price of low-budget filmmaking. I'll list them here so you can decide for yourself if this will ruin the film for you:

A) Anachronisms:
When Chapman is riding in a taxi at the start of his first trip to New York, he is driven through Times Square. A number of stores that weren't in Times Square in 1980 clearly can be seen, including Foot Locker, a Virgin Megastore and Planet Hollywood.
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B) Errors in geography: During his first taxi ride in New York, they are driving through Times Square and Chapman eventually is dropped off at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. During the ride, the driver says they're about to pass John Lennon's home, but the Dakota building is on Central Park West and 72 Street. Times Square is in the lower to mid 40s at 7th Avenue and Broadway and the Waldorf-Astoria is on Park Avenue in the upper 40s, so to get there all you have to do is go across town a few blocks. The taxi never would be anywhere near the Dakota.

Movietickets.com (online ticketing)

Basic agenda is to:

Pick a movie
Buy tickets in advance
Arrive early to find organizer
Get seats
Then concessions
Then watch film with cellphones OFF
Then gather at the entrance to the theater, wait for rest room users,
and head over to the final discussion destination
Order food, drink, etc.
Discuss film
Divide up check