Intermission - A New Cinema Society Program
Intermission is a private film night held every other Sunday at Chad’s house, in the weeks between our main cinema club screenings. It’s for movies that don’t quite fit the main program: old favorites, oddities, double features, guilty pleasures, and films that are more fun to talk through than to sit through in silence.
We meet at my home theater near Golden Gate in a small group, with pizza, snacks, and drinks on the house. Expect a short intro before each film and good conversation after.
There’s a 250 UAH entry, mostly so I know who’s actually coming. It’s invite-only, so if you’re reading this, you’re welcome. Please do not share as I only have 15 chairs :)
Double Feature at the Golden Gate: The Shop Around the Corner + You’ve Got Mail
Sunday, October 18th, 16:00
At Chad’s House - 24a Ivana Franka, but that entrance is closed. Directions here: https://www.graciafilms.com/address
Two strangers fall in love through anonymous letters while they can’t stand each other in real life. It’s the same story told twice, 58 years apart, and we’re watching both.
We start with Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner (1940). James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan play bickering coworkers in a little Budapest gift shop, each unaware that the other is their secret pen pal. It’s warm and funny, with an edge of melancholy that Lubitsch was famous for. Then we break for pizza. After that comes Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail (1998), which turns the letters into AOL emails and the shop into a children’s bookstore fighting a megastore. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan play the rivals. Alberto will introduce the film, it’s one of his favorites.
Why these two? No movie is made in a vacuum. Films borrow from each other, answer each other, and argue with each other, and this pairing shows that clearly. Both films come from the same 1937 Hungarian play. Ephron also slipped in a few quiet tributes to Lubitsch, and we’ll talk about what changed between 1940 and 1998 and what didn’t.
This will be a small, cozy group in a home theater near Golden Gate. Pizza, snacks, and drinks are free. The 250 UAH is only so I know who’s coming.
Intermission - A New Cinema Society Program
Intermission is a private film night held every other Sunday at Chad’s house, in the weeks between our main cinema club screenings. It’s for movies that don’t quite fit the main program: old favorites, oddities, double features, guilty pleasures, and films that are more fun to talk through than to sit through in silence.
We meet at my home theater near Golden Gate in a small group, with pizza, snacks, and drinks on the house. Expect a short intro before each film and good conversation after.
There’s a 250 UAH entry, mostly so I know who’s actually coming. It’s invite-only, so if you’re reading this, you’re welcome. Please do not share as I only have 15 chairs :)
Double Feature at the Golden Gate: The Shop Around the Corner + You’ve Got Mail
Sunday, October 18th, 16:00
At Chad’s House - 24a Ivana Franka, but that entrance is closed. Directions here: https://www.graciafilms.com/address
Two strangers fall in love through anonymous letters while they can’t stand each other in real life. It’s the same story told twice, 58 years apart, and we’re watching both.
We start with Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner (1940). James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan play bickering coworkers in a little Budapest gift shop, each unaware that the other is their secret pen pal. It’s warm and funny, with an edge of melancholy that Lubitsch was famous for. Then we break for pizza. After that comes Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail (1998), which turns the letters into AOL emails and the shop into a children’s bookstore fighting a megastore. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan play the rivals. Alberto will introduce the film, it’s one of his favorites.
Why these two? No movie is made in a vacuum. Films borrow from each other, answer each other, and argue with each other, and this pairing shows that clearly. Both films come from the same 1937 Hungarian play. Ephron also slipped in a few quiet tributes to Lubitsch, and we’ll talk about what changed between 1940 and 1998 and what didn’t.
This will be a small, cozy group in a home theater near Golden Gate. Pizza, snacks, and drinks are free. The 250 UAH is only so I know who’s coming.
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