Film Class Calendar

Film Class was created to provide a forum for nurturing a deeper understanding of film culture and to keep the tradition of the film-going experience alive here in the Napa Valley.

Film Class is held at the theater each TUESDAY at  1:00 PM.

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FEBRUARY FILM CLASS WITH TERRENCE FORD

THE FILMS OF THE COEN BROTHERS

In 2017, Vulture held a poll of 40 of the top current screenwriters to vote on the 100 best screenwriters of all time. The top ranked contemporary screenwriters were Joel and Ethan Coen at number 2 all time — only Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard) was ranked higher. The writer-director pair behind movies like Fargo and No Country for Old Men are celebrated as two of the best to ever do it. But what makes them worthy of the top spot on this list? What makes them so special?


blood simple

February 4 / 1:00 pm
$10 at the door

Blood Simple - 1984
Director: Joel Coen

Writers: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh

The Coen Brothers made their debut film in Blood Simple, which takes a simple premise-an affair between a bartender and his boss's wife-and fills it with the tension and dark comedy that would become the brothers's signature.


fargo

February 11 / 1:00 pm
$10 at the door

Fargo - 1981

Director: Joel Coen
Writers: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: Frances McDormand, William Macy, Steve Buscemi
A pregnant Minnesota police chief investigates a triple homicide after a desperate car
salesman hires two dim-witted criminals to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty
ransom from her wealth father.


o brother where

February 18 / 1:00 pm
$10 at the door

0 Brother Where Art Thou 2000 

Director: Joel Coen
Writers: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, John
Goodman, Holly Hunter
In 1937, three Mississippi escaped convicts search for hidden treasures while being
pursue by a relentless sheriff.


big lewbowski

February 25/ 1:00 pm
$10 at the door

The Big Lebowski - 1998

Director: Joel Coen
Writers: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara
"The Dude" is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity then learns that a millionaire, also named Jeffrey Lebowski, was the intended victim. The millionaire Lebowski's trophy wife is supposedly kidnapped and millionaire Lebowski commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release.


 

 
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