Moovie nite notice: Fast Food Nation - Friday, November 17

Hey - Fast Food Nation, the Greg Kinnear/ensemble drama based on the book by Eric Schlosser, opens this Friday! Here's a note from our pal lower-case b:

This Friday night the movie Fast Food Nation opens in theatres nationwide. Fox Searchlight (the distributor of the film) will be looking closely at the money the movie brings in on opening weekend. As with all movies, to be a success the movie has to do well in the first three days it plays. Fox Searchlight is NOT doing any major promotions of the film and the movie didn't have a lot of financial backing in getting made, we believe because of its controversial nature.

Fast Food Nation is a movie based on the non-fiction book written by Eric Schlosser. This is one of the most influential books of our time.

So, let's go! The film is playing at the Harvard Exit on Friday, November 17, at 7:15 pm. Maybe we can meet at 5:30 or 6:00 for a decidedly non-fast-food dinner at Pho Cyclo beforehand; email or call if you want to make plans.

Hope to see y'all there!

Big Wall Spectration: Friday, November 10

Gosford Park

So, I think we all heard about this Upstairs,Downstairs-period-piece- murder-mystery-all-star- international-cast offering from Robert Altman a few years back, but I don't now how many of us have actually seen it. Netflix has come through, and we're going to watch it on Friday night, November 10. Here's the IMDB page, and here's a review. All I know is it's got man-babe Clive Owens in it, and that seems to be a big draw for many of the ladies and a few of the men in this little community of ours.

As usual, the show will start about 7:00-7:30 pm, and we'll have pop and popcorn; bring whatevers to hoard or to share!

RSVP if you can!