SNFC is cancelled tonight. There are just too many reports of unplowed roads & the MBTA has limited-to-no service. Back next week.  Be safe.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Feb 10th at 7:05p for Side Effects at the Regal Fenway Stadium 13 . 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.

Emily and Martin are a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist - intended to treat anxiety - has unexpected side effects.

Note: On the outside chance that the weather (or it’s aftermath) is still dangerous, or otherwise effects the clubs function, I’ll post to the club twitter feed for any changes/cancellations.

Our friends over at the Brattle Theatre are running a Kickstarter campaign to upgrade to Digital Projection as well as replace their decrepit HVAC system.  They have a rad selection of rewards for the various levels.

Often members ask me what they can do to support this club.  I can’t think of any better way to support this club than to support local independent cinema.  Please head over to the Brattle’s Kickstarter and help them out!

We are taking Super Bowl Sunday off. Enjoy.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 27th at 7:30p for A Liar’s Autobiography at the Brattle Theatre . Look for Dan wearing a multicolored shirt 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 LIAR?S AUTOBIOGRAPHY tells the story of Graham Chapman not with the usual talking heads and film clips but with an insane variety of animation techniques instead. Directors Bill Jones (son of Python Terry), Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett have edited together recordings of Chapman made before his death in 1989 alongside new recordings by several of his Python colleagues (minus Eric Idle) and created an episodic, probably-mostly-true account of Chapman?s life ? from his unhappy childhood, to his days in medical school, his bouts of serious alcoholism, his life as a libertine and openly gay man and, of course, his time with one of the most famous and influential comedy troupes of all time: Monty Python.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 20th at 7pm for Amour 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.

They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter Eva (Isabelle Huppert), who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple’s bond of love is severely tested.

This powerful new film by master director Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon, Cache, Funny Games) won the Palm D’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and has been nominated for and winning accolades including Golden Globe and Oscar nominations and critics best-of lists. The Boston Society of Film Critics awarded Amour Best Foreign Language Film as well as 2nd place Best Film and Best Actress to Emmanuelle Riva.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 13th at 7pm for The Impossible (SNFC’s 10th Anniversary!) at the Kendall Square Cinema . 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.

This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the Boston SNFC! I posted a celebratory blog post over here.

A powerful story based on one family’s survival of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, The Impossible stars Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor and is directed by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage). Maria (Watts), Henry (McGregor) and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying roar rises up from the center of the earth. As Maria freezes in fear, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds toward her. Based on a true story, The Impossible is the unforgettable account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives. Both epic and intimate, devastating and uplifting, The Impossible is a journey to the core of the human heart.

Back on January 12th, 2003, the first meeting of the Boston Sunday Night Film Club, started by Heather, occurred. The club has now met 464 times, starting out with The Pianist and most recently seeing Zero Dark Thirty. While the club struggled a bit early on, these days we have a great core of people who come out regularly to watch and discuss movies. We’ve watched as members meet, get married and have children. That’s not to say we don’t have room for more. Feel free to join us any old Sunday, we’re always looking for new friends.

Many, many thanks to all of the people who have helped keep this club alive, especially to the coterie of “pinch-hitters” who have filled in when I’ve been unable to make it.

Below the cut is a list of all of the movies we’ve seen… While you could get all this information by plowing through the archives of this blog, I thought I’d make it easy.

See you Sunday!

-sean

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 6th at 7:20p for Zero Dark Thirty at the AMC Boston Common 19 . 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 chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Dec 30th at 6:30p for Django Unchained at the Coolidge Corner Theatre . Look for Dan wearing a multicolored shirt 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.

With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.