Film Class Calendar, Cameo Cinema
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.
MARCH FILM CLASS WITH DAVID GARDEN
FOCUS ON WOMEN DIRECTORS
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
March is Women's History Month and this year's theme is "Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations," as designated by the National Women's History Alliance. What better way to educate and inspire than through the power of movies?
March 11 / 1:00 pm
$10 at the door
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932 / 1hr 18min
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Addiction, infidelity, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, Dorothy Arzner, the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wit. Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high society elegance,Merrily We Go to Hell is a scathing early-feminist commentary on modern marriage.
March 18 / 1:00 pm
$10 at the door
A League of their Own
1992 / 2hr 8mDirector: Penny Marshall
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) on their way to fame. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell co-star as two of the sisters' teammates.
March 25 / 1:00 pm
$10 at the door
Europa Europa
1991 / 1hr 55mDirector: Agnieszka Holland
If You Live Among Wolves, You Must Howl Like A Wolf.
There are a great many movies about the tragic experience of the Jews during the Second World War, but only a handful as passionate, as subtly intelligent, as universal as this one. Brilliant, biting, bitterly funny epic about a Jewish teenager's stranger-than fiction adventures during World War II.
April 1 / 1:00 pm
$10 at the door
The Piano
1993 / 2h1mDirector: Jane Campion
It tells a story of love and fierce pride, and places it on a bleak New Zealand coast where people live rudely in the rain and mud, struggling to maintain the appearance of the European society they've left behind. It is a story of shyness, repression and loneliness; of a woman who will not speak and a man who cannot listen. Campion was the first female to receive the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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