BLACK SWAN Now Playing

BLACK SWAN Rating: R Length: 108 minutes Year: 2010 Actors: Natalie Portman, Barbara Hershey, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Mila Kunis Nina (Natalie Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica …

McCabe And Mrs. Miller (1971)

BEARHUNTING IN A CATHOUSE In 1901, in early fall, somewhere in the North Cascades, just a few feverish years after Washington became a state, a stranger rode up into the thickly timbered foothills wearing a huge bearskin coat, and a dude’s derby,  and a Swedish pistol, clutching wet reins tethered to a second horse struggling behind him. …

Movie Memories

Movie Memories “Darmok and Geladd at Tanoglah--arms open.” --Captain John-Luc Picard. RB= RIO BRAVO (1959) ED= EL DORADO (1967) John Wayne straddled the two films like a trick rider with his legs wide standing on two horses at the rodeo, the big man in the battered hat, Sheriff John T. Chance in RB, that cavalry hat first seen in SHE WORE …

Jody reflects on Short Cuts

Our screening and discussion of John Altman's film Short Cuts was based on a suggestion by long-time member of the Tacoma Film Club, Jody Dubay. Unfortunately, Jody was not able to attend our discussion of this film during our October meeting. She sent me the following comments about the film and I am posting them …

TFC Producers’ Film Picks for November 2010

Producers’ Committee Film Picks for November 2010 This month the group has bravely taken on the Millennium Trilogy, the first three films made from the best-selling Swedish novels by Stieg Larsson; tragically dead at 44 in 2004. DVD THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2009) Directed by Niels Arden Opley @ 152 minutes. In Swedish with English subtitles. …