Che will be our movie discussion on Sunday March 1st.
Che is in honourable line with D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, David O. Selznick’s Gone With the Wind, David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Claude Lanzman’s Shoah: one of those massive epics that comes along every twenty years or so, that insists on perspicacity and so we sit, hour after hour, watching a previously-unknown history wash over us.Che tells of a Caribbean/Latin America I had never absorbed before: a continental ticking timebomb of resentment and hostility that we’ve occasionally glimpsed with Castro in Cuba, with Allende in Chile, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, and now with Hugo Chavez Frias in Venezuela.
For our my-pov.ca crowd, we have two spectacular options: from now through Thursday, Feb. 22nd of this week, AMC is offering what it calls Che in roadshow version – the two parts sold as one ticket (with an accompanying programme).
Starting Friday, it will be broken into Che: Part I (Cuba) and Che Part II (Bolivia): two completely different films, two different story lines, two different filmtelling styles, nd inevitably two different outcomes.
I would recommend those who can find the time to see it as a single 4:35 hour movie. Yeah, it takes time to unfurl. Yeah, it requires tuchas endurance. So what? These movies only roll round once in a generation. Bring sandwiches and a bottle of water. There’s a 15 minute intermission after 2:10 minutes.
Of course you can use your AMC vouchers, that my-pov.ca provided. But here’s the rub: AMC Kansas City ran short, so we only got 200 vouchers in toto (the rest will arrive March 3rd). Still I have enough extras for this week. Since you will need two vouchers to get in, anyone wanting extra vouchers, please get in touch with me asap, and we’ll finess how to get them to you. I live only five minutes from the AMC, so if you’re driving, you can pick them up here. If you’re going as a crowd, I can meet you at the theatre.
For those attending Sunday, if the times on March 1st are the same as yesterday, Part I will start at 1:00 p.m. We would then initiate our Comedy Nest discussion at 3:30 pm. But don’t take that as gospel truth. I will know more, and subsequently post start times tomorrow.
For our my-pov.ca crowd, we have two spectacular options: from now through Thursday, Feb. 22nd of this week, AMC is offering what it calls Che in roadshow version – the two parts sold as one ticket (with an accompanying programme).
Starting Friday, it will be broken into Che: Part I (Cuba) and Che Part II (Bolivia): two completely different films, two different story lines, two different filmtelling styles, nd inevitably two different outcomes.
I would recommend those who can find the time to see it as a single 4:35 hour movie. Yeah, it takes time to unfurl. Yeah, it requires tuchas endurance. So what? These movies only roll round once in a generation. Bring sandwiches and a bottle of water. There’s a 15 minute intermission after 2:10 minutes.
Of course you can use your AMC vouchers, that my-pov.ca provided. But here’s the rub: AMC Kansas City ran short, so we only got 200 vouchers in toto (the rest will arrive March 3rd). Still I have enough extras for this week. Since you will need two vouchers to get in, anyone wanting extra vouchers, please get in touch with me asap, and we’ll finess how to get them to you. I live only five minutes from the AMC, so if you’re driving, you can pick them up here. If you’re going as a crowd, I can meet you at the theatre.
For those attending Sunday, if the times on March 1st are the same as yesterday, Part I will start at 1:00 p.m. We would then initiate our Comedy Nest discussion at 3:30 pm. But don’t take that as gospel truth. I will know more, and subsequently post start times tomorrow.
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