Our last major award ceremony before the Oscars is this Saturday’s Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards. In addition to the categories for Feature Film (our focus for pre-Oscar input!) the DGA’s also honor Best Drama Series and Best Comedy Series on TV, as well as Documentaries and Commercials. The awards for directors of Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regular, and Reality programs helped remind me that these forms are often where tomorrow’s hottest film directors make their start. So click on the DGA graphic below to go to these award nominees, and see if they affect your choices for Oscar winners!
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Posted in DGA 2014, Directors Guild of America Awards on January 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Our Second Film in the Series: “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”
This month, we will use magical realism to warm up, by watching & discussing Captain Corelli's Mandolin!Louis de Bernières' best-selling novel of love during wartime is brought to the screen in this story that blends comedy, action, and romance.
According to film critic, Rich Kline, "the centre of the big, meaty story are Iannis (John Hurt), a village doctor on the Greek island of Cephallonia in the early 1940s, and his daughter Pelagia (Penelope Cruz), who is betrothed to local fisherman Mandras (Christian Bale). Then their idyllic world is invaded by WWII. Mandras heads off to fight in Albania, while Italian and German troops are placed on Cephallonia.
Soon, Pelagia finds a soulmate of sorts in the Italian Captain Corelli (Cage), a man who loves life and trains his men to sing, not fight. But what will she do when Mandras returns? And how will the war twist their fates?"
We will meet on Captain Corelli's Mandolin on Monday, February 24th at 6:00 p.m. in Meeting Rm. B. Click on the graphic to go to our cataloged DVD of the movie.
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