CUNY Academic Commons | D | Group Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/daryll/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which D is a member. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 5cab58e4625dca8dc157213f0e0553c4 Tobijah (He/Him) joined the group SPS Film Club https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1007446/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:44:43 -0400 9c271fa02d3c2e8a89963f099149935b John Acosta joined the group SPS Film Club https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/846234/ Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:24:31 -0400 6453d738e6736676f90b9d7217431ee3 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Dazed and Confused in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/05/12/dazed-and-confused-2/ Thu, 12 May 2022 22:20:30 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Not So Long Ago, But Very Far […]

]]> a75f79788814ca4b1559de4cdd75320f D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Dazed and Confused - Twitter Watch Party! in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/05/12/dazed-and-confused/ Thu, 12 May 2022 19:55:50 -0400 Our next film is Dazed and Confused (1993), directed by Richard Linklater.

It’s the end of the semester, a time of recognition and reflection especially for those who are graduating. To honor all the hard […]

]]> 655a90f82b51082fb2892232b81ef207 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Bright Star in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/04/09/bright-star-2/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 21:17:27 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Thou still unravish’d bride of […]

]]> 0a094dff8627437c8fa81c8fa4428f6c D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Bright Star in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/04/09/bright-star/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:45:10 -0400 Our next film will be Bright Star (2009), directed by Jane Campion

April is National Poetry Month, which makes it the perfect time to visit this biographical drama from director Jane Campion.

Bright Star […]

]]> 73c67d0b7bb4cec9974441da260a4d78 Uku J joined the group SPS Film Club https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/833933/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:15:46 -0400 44849709c280405033201475ca14f09d D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Meek's Cutoff in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/03/18/meeks-cutoff-2/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:15:55 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Wagon trains to the west were […]

]]> eef57d46688f8f6159021896043e82ae D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Meek's Cutoff in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/03/18/meeks-cutoff/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:43:16 -0400 Our next film will be Meek’s Cutoff (2010), directed by Kelly Reichardt

Let’s celebrate woman indie filmmaking!

For our next movie we will focus on the 2010 western drama Meek’s Cutoff, directed by Kelly […]

]]> a90edfdfde81db8447cd86a897815259 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/03/04/shadows-of-forgotten-ancestors-2/ Fri, 04 Mar 2022 18:07:20 -0500 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: […]

]]> 26ba1ed6cf13af81e041e41e9299669b D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/03/04/shadows-of-forgotten-ancestors/ Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:34:25 -0500 Our next film will be Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965), directed by Sergei Parajanov.

With the tragic events currently taking place in Ukraine, we wanted to take a look at this important piece of […]

]]> 1bd8555f97e77742b571c2a33db35750 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Mudbound in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/02/18/mudbound-2/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:02:00 -0500 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Epic Drama on Poverty, Race and […]

]]> 3d17264ad072dd5dfbb1e918c321c59a D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Mudbound in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/02/18/mudbound/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:33:00 -0500 Our next film will be Mudbound (2017), directed by Dee Rees.

In recognition of Black history month our next movie will be Mudbound, a grounded and unflinching examination of racism in Jim Crow Mississippi […]

]]> e6bfa1d0449546e57c72bff49dec78c6 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post (500) Days of Summer in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/02/06/500-days-of-summer-2/ Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:27:33 -0500 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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(500) Days Of Summer: 14 […]

]]> f0a88b36c9f72d283b3afdf72662ba57 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post (500) Days of Summer in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/02/06/500-days-of-summer/ Sun, 06 Feb 2022 21:47:30 -0500 Our first film for Spring will be 500 Days of Summer (2009), directed by Marc Webb.

Welcome to the Spring semester! As we head towards Valentine’s Day we’ve decided to kick off Film Club with something […]

]]> d96d5f4c5dcebd82b5267899807bc407 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Die Hard in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/12/07/die-hard-2/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:15:42 -0500 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Die Hard: 5 Reasons It’s The […]

]]> bdf078ae3254328c6fcf784974525fc9 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post DIE HARD in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/12/07/die-hard/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 05:13:23 -0500 Our next film is Die Hard (1988), directed by John McTiernan.

Happy Holidays film club friends! As our final movie for the semester, we’ve decided to do a live Twitter watch party for the 1988 “holiday […]

]]> 5aed66f0723dc7bc258b950ccebb4bb3 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Out of the Past in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/11/08/out-of-the-past-2/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 04:19:16 -0500 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Out of the Past […]

]]> a13c65166a340facb777213381a31d8e D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Out of the Past in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/11/08/out-of-the-past/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 03:34:39 -0500 Our next film is Out of the Past (1947), directed by Jacques Tourneur.

Happy Noirvember! This month we will explore noir and neo-noir, starting with a film widely considered to be quintessential to the genre. […]

]]> 8be586af21d053a59272974934d0cac9 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post The Host in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/10/26/the-host-2/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 03:45:58 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Attack of the Giant Amphibian! […]

]]> 2aef34e9a1169ced6c81d90a53c61724 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post The Host in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/10/26/the-host/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 02:51:57 -0400 Our next film is The Host (2006), directed by Bong Joon-ho.

Halloween is coming up fast, and there’s nothing like a monster movie to get into the spooky spirit! To finish up the month we will watch Bong […]

]]> 0177b4b3bd79f90e0022590a91774179 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post The Shining in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/10/10/the-shining-2/ Sun, 10 Oct 2021 03:06:01 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Isolated Madness (Roger […]

]]> 734bd0b4150931736aa3e38bdc4f6338 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post The Shining in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/10/10/the-shining/ Sun, 10 Oct 2021 02:22:12 -0400 Our next film is The Shining (1980), directed by Stanley Kubrick.

October is spooky season, and what better way to start than some shiver-inducing, mind-bending psychological horror!

Kubrick’s The Shining […]

]]> bc6d6806c8e72c97673792665637a5b5 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Soylent Green in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/09/24/soylent-green-2/ Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:14:18 -0400 Our next film is Soylent Green (1973), directed by Richard Fleischer.

Welcome film fans to the Fall 2021 Semester! We will be kicking off film club with the sci-fi dystopian classic Soylent Green, from […]

]]> c135a0d26fff27fb87e20d4ae912c2b8 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Soylent Green in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/09/23/soylent-green/ Thu, 23 Sep 2021 03:01:30 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Soylent Green 1973 (AFI Catalog […]

]]> ba4144154d360e1a3a583d01ce1d3017 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Mildred Pierce in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/05/03/mildred-pierce-2/ Mon, 03 May 2021 19:43:53 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Filmsite Movie Review: Mildred […]

]]> 313c957f55b600ba4695db07b50e8e75 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Mildred Pierce in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/05/02/mildred-pierce/ Sun, 02 May 2021 03:35:49 -0400 LIVE Twitter Watch Party on May 13th, 2021

Our next film is Mildred Pierce (1945), directed by Michael Curtiz.

To honor Mother’s Day we have selected the noir classic Mildred Pierce for our May movie. It’s a […]

]]> 3d5c531421c184c94d5c2c06feb4018b D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Gattaca in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/04/22/gattaca-2/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:18:49 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Gattaca (Roger Ebert […]

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Our next film is Gattaca (1997), directed by Andrew Niccol.

“We now have discrimination down to a science.”

Our next film will be Gattaca, a sci-fi thriller that poses intr […]

]]> 8c539966f8307926075bcddf922a6e96 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Sound of Metal in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/04/05/sound-of-metal-2/ Mon, 05 Apr 2021 04:38:19 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Oscar-Worthy ‘Sound of M […]

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Our next film is Sound of Metal (2020), directed by Darius Marder.

April is Disability Awareness Month at CUNY, and we have two selections (voted on by our members) that explore […]

]]> e281b01d180a687bfe9fcf9c6c2dd6bd D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Daisies in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/03/15/daisies-2/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:46:07 -0400 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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An Audience for Free Spirits in […]

]]> 22ee6223cd2b639c0038588cc5b8bc40 D (he/him/his) edited the blog post Daisies in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/03/12/daisies/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 23:28:53 -0500 Meetup on March 24th, 2021

Our next film is Daisies (1966), directed by Vera Chytilová.

March is Women’s History month, and our members have voted for two excellent (and very different) films to watch and […]

]]> 847649da4a62638146ff6951d8a37784 Shakima Williams-Jones (she/her/hers) joined the group SPS Film Club https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/749916/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 02:20:45 -0500 b6859f727964ce995a0bc72d5fb220ad D (he/him/his) edited the blog post The Trouble With Angels in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/03/04/the-trouble-with-angels-2/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 03:19:03 -0500 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

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Mother of All of Us: Ida […]

]]> ffcbf92b85f48d37b1cbb11da891d7bf D (he/him/his) edited the blog post The Trouble With Angels in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/03/03/the-trouble-with-angels/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 04:27:06 -0500 Meetup on March 10th, 2021

Our next film is The Trouble With Angels, a 1966 comedy directed by Ida Lupino.

March is Women’s History month, and our members have voted for two excellent (and very different) […]

]]> 63727f6b78cb256c0303de57c0ffaec3 Josephine Barnett (she/her/they/them/their) joined the group SPS Film Club https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/746564/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:56:33 -0500 721e25a5419de6bf033a62be3decbd56 Grant Bremer (he/him) joined the group SPS Film Club https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/746561/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:50:02 -0500 847b5c6838132f116c16b107b8a072af Shanyce Lora (she/her/hers) joined the group SPS Film Club https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/746268/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:10:22 -0500 4f3a741d519ea79f54d054716b9a60e3 Mikhail Kulin joined the group SPS Film Club https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/745756/ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:36:36 -0500 d6b057e6b7ce25888af338c9ba5187a2 Elizabeth Alsop (she/her) joined the group SPS Film Club https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/742608/ Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:24:37 -0500 32b5edf7e478e1883495ce366d905caf Daryll Esposito (he/him/his) edited the blog post La Haine (Hate) in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/02/11/la-haine-resources/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:47:32 -0500 Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that essays and video essays are likely to contain spoilers.

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La Haine and After: Arts, […]

]]> 429a759c86c2d9e4021549285e035ab6 Daryll Esposito (he/him/his) edited the blog post La Haine in the group SPS Film Club https://spsfilmclub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/02/10/hello-world/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:30:00 -0500 Meetup on February 24th, 2021

Our next film is the 1995 French film La Haine, written and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.

La Haine (Hate) is a film about three young men from the banlieue or housing […]

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