The Sasquatch Arts and Music Society is proud to announce that Cine Club Creston will start presenting movies at the Snoring Sasquatch on March 8.
Thanks to Jean-Paul Buckens and Renee Kyle, the classic movie night will now expand to a twice-a-month cinema club. Movies will be shown on the second Thursday of the month with the doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the fourth Sunday of the month doors opening at 2:30 p.m. Admission will be by donation.
Buckens and Kyle have run cine clubs for several years at various venues from local colleges to their own living room. Their passion for movies dates back to their own university studies. Creston can be very happy to have their expertise. The movies can be enjoyed by anyone wanting a good night’s entertainment.
For those who would like the chance to learn more about movies and have an opportunity to discuss them, the cine club discussion group is for them. A cine club is much like a book club, except instead of each member reading a book separately, everyone gets to view the movie together. Discussions will occur before each showing, as well as online. The movies will be shown in groups of four to eight over a two- to four-month span with a common theme. Prior to the showing of the first film in a session, there will be an introduction to the theme, as well as some discussion questions to think about during the films. With each subsequent film, the discussion will then include the films.
Cine Club Creston will start with “A Look at Classic Comedy”. The first discussion topics will include, “What is funny? What makes a comedy good? Is comedy universal? Does it pass the test of time?” The lineup of films was chosen from different sub-genres spanning 30 years, beginning March 8 with Bring up Baby, a screwball comedy from 1938, Arsenic and Old Lace, a black comedy from 1944 (March 25), The Lavender Hill Mob, a British film from 1951 (April 12) and, last in this series, The Party, a situation/slapstick film from 1968 (April 22).
The second series of movies will take a look at comedy being used to make a political statement. Four movies were chosen with an anti-war theme. Again spanning three decades, the lineup includes Duck Soup (1933) on May 10, To Be or Not to Be (1942) on May 27, Dr. Strangelove (1964) on June 14 and, last but not least, MASH (1970) on June 24.
— SASQUATCH ARTS AND MUSIC SOCIETY