camera cinema club

So, i have attended two screenings of the Camera cinema club and thought it would be a good time to review them. Camera cinema club is a bay area movie club with one screenings a month and where we have no idea what the movies is going to be. Before the movie starts, there is also a movie quiz with random prizes, some good some bad. Both of my movies so far have been premiere shows of yet to be released movies.

The first one was The most dangerous man in America . A documentary on the life of Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the pentagon papers to the American media. One of the best movies that i have seen this year. The documentary is made in a suspense drama style and for a person like me who had no idea about this historic event, it was the kind of drama that i love the most. Not only is the story and story telling is at its best, but the drama created is super (french style). After the screening, the director was there and it was interesting to hear questions from people who had seen when they were young. Interestingly, most of the members of the cinema club are old like 40+ or 50+ so they were young when the war happened, some even served at the war etc, for them it was quite a painful event. The film also has real footage from Nixon administration and there as the dir said, Nixon will continue to amaze people for generations to come.

The next one was The Joneses Debug movie by the director, this one is about the American consumerism taken to its extreme and done in a way that it is totally credible as well as shocking if it turns out to be true (now or in future. ) I liked David Duchovny's acting a lot on this movie, he got the movie's mood and blended in. It is not going to be an 8pointer on imdb, but there should be reasonably good movies, movies made with lot of creativity, detail, normal story, decent acting and movies made with good intentions. These indie movies surely know how to experiment and awe with their creativity.

Camera cinema club page - http://www.cameracinemas.com/club.shtml