Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jul 6th at 3:00pm for Floating Clouds at the Harvard Film Archive. Look for Howard wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

A devastating adaptation of Hayashi Fumiko’s final novel, Floating Clouds match-cuts between softened memories and brutal reality, past and present, sun-kissed images of French Indochina and a post-war Japan cloaked in shadows. Ignominy has overtaken Tokyo, where two former workers for the Imperial Forestry Ministry–Kengo, a married officer (Mori Masayuki) and Yukiko, a typist (Takamine Hideko)–reignite their wartime affair in a doomed attempt to revivify a past distorted by the ripe promise of endless imperial capital. Arguably Naruse’s most famous and acclaimed film and perhaps his most formally ambitious, Floating Clouds was described in Ozu Yasujiro’s diary as a “real masterpiece.”

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 29th at 5:00pm for F1: The Movie at the AMC Assembly Row 12. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

A Formula One driver comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver.

Note: This is opening weekend of a blockbuster, with reserved seats, so you may wish to buy tickets in advance. The host, Sean, will be seated in Row H.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 22nd at 7:00pm for The Phoenician Scheme at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists and determined assassins.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 15th at 5:00pm for The Life of Chuck at the Somerville Theatre. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 8th at 5:15pm for Ballerina at the AMC Assembly Row 12. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

An assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma organization sets out to seek revenge after her father’s death.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 1st at 6:45pm for Jane Austen Wrecked My Life at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

A desperately single bookseller, lost in a fantasy world, finds herself forced to fulfil her dreams of becoming a writer in order to stop messing up her love life.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 25th at 6:00pm for The Great Escape at the Somerville Theatre. Look for Howard wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom. In the role that cemented his superstar status, Steve McQueen plays the motorcycle-racing daredevil who sets out to foil the Nazis, alongside an all-star cast that includes Charles Bronson, James Coburn, James Garner, and Donald Pleasence. The expert direction of John Sturges, eminently hummable Elmer Bernstein score, and rip-roaring stunts come together in what may just be the most spectacularly entertaining prison-break movie of all time, a rousing ode to the determination, camaraderie, and courage of everyday heroes. Screening as part of our F**k the Nazis repertory series.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 18th at 5:00pm for Friendship at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor, but Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 11th at 2:30pm for Psycho at the Brattle Theatre. Look for Howard wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks, and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank forty thousand dollars by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 4th at 3:45p for Thunderbolts* (IMAX) at the AMC Assembly Row 12. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.

Note: This is reserved-seat and opening weekend, so you may want to get tickets in advance. Your host, Sean, will be seated in Row K.