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.

JULY FILM CLASS WITH DAVID GARDEN

Japanese Cinema

“Cinema resembles so many other arts. If cinema has very literary characteristics, it also has theatrical qualities, a philosophical side, attributes of painting and sculpture and musical elements. But cinema is, in the final analysis, cinema.” ― Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon introduced the "Rashomon effect," a revolutionary storytelling device that explores subjective truth by showing the same event from multiple, contradicting viewpoints, forever changing global cinema. In Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu disregarded the established rules of cinema, and revolutionized camera placement and editing. Yojiro Takita’s Academy Award winning Departures is steeped in traditional Japanese ritual and ceremony. Masayuki Suo’s Shall We Dance is a treasure of humor and heartbreak that transcends cultural boundaries.

JULY 7
1:00 pm / $10

RASHOMON
1950 1h 28m

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter. Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice.

JULY 14
1:00 pm / $10

DEPARTURES

2008 2h 10m

Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.

JULY 21
1:00 pm / $10

TOYKO STORY

1953 2h 17m

The film, which follows an aging couple's journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life.

JULY 28
1:00 pm / $10
SHALL WE DANCE?

1996 2hr 16m

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons. This feel-good romantic comedy will sweep you off your feet.