CinemAddicts

 For the Cinephile in You

CinemAddicts are people who love to watch and discuss film.  On the first Thursday of each month AIM members are invited to express their appreciation for good film and great conversation. The set-up is relaxed.  Members are welcome to grab a chair, or bring blankets and pillows and sit on the floor.  The films are diverse – action, comedy, drama, sci-fi, Hollywood, independent, foreign – they all make the cut. 

But please be forewarned, these events are not just to watch great films, the most important part of the evening comes when the film is done.  That is when CinemAddicts discuss the time period in which the film was distributed, the techniques used to tell the story, behind-the-scenes facts and myths, as well as the text and subtext of the film’s content. CinemAddicts regulars choose the films and lead the post-screening conversation.

If you are an AIM member and would like to join these private screenings, the film starts rolling at 7:30pm on the first Thursday of each month. RSVPs to hilary@arlingtonmedia.org are appreciated, but not required.

Next Screening:

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 7:30pm

Rick Palma will host and lead a discussion on The Others.

"Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar's first English-language production is a creepy period ghost story that continues in the vein of his earlier art house hit Open Your Eyes (1997). Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, a devoutly religious mother of two ailing children who has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast while awaiting her husband's return from World War II, though he has been declared missing. Their children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting Grace's rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When Anne begins claiming to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly arrived family of eccentric servants to be responsible, but chilling events and visions soon lead her to believe that something supernatural is indeed going on. The Others was released only a few months prior to Vanilla Sky (2001), the American remake of Alejandro's Open Your Eyes (1997), ironically starring Kidman's then-estranged husband Tom Cruise. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi"