by Susan | Nov 18, 2016 | Friday's Film
Opens November 18 at the Bijou:The film follows the courtship and marriage of Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man. They are arrested and sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958, because their interracial marriage violates the state’s...
by Susan | Nov 4, 2016 | Friday's Film
Opens November 4 at the Bijou: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people based on his religious convictions, and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be...
by Susan | Oct 21, 2016 | Friday's Film
Opens October 21 at the Bijou: Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors....
by Susan | Sep 2, 2016 | Friday's Film
I had an urge to re-watch the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup (1933), and was rolling on the floor for one hour and eight minutes. The going-to-war scene — They got guns, We got guns, All God’s chillun got guns! I’m gonna walk all over the battlefield,...
by Susan | Aug 19, 2016 | Friday's Film
Rolling Stone called it “The best film about dissent in America.” In Peter Watkins’ 1971 film, the war in Vietnam is escalating and there is massive public protest in the United States. President Nixon declares a state of national emergency and gives...
by Susan | Jul 29, 2016 | Friday's Film
Documentary. A coming of age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges (autism) by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood. Based on the book by Ron Suskind. Starring Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert...
