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About Cinema Salon
Cinema Salon is a program that centers around dialogue as it relates to film. The program includes discussions, lectures, debates, director talks, trivia nights, and more.
Discussions are hosted by film critic John Behling. John graduated with a B.A.in Film Studies and Creative Writing from Saint Cloud State University in 2005 and since then has written about film for City Pages, Slant, Film Threat, Midnight Eye, and Release Print. For him the best way to relate to people, politics, history, philosophy (geography?) is through film, and the best way to experience film is as a living, breathing, sweating clash of ideas--something that we can use to try to make sense of ourselves, and of the world. And he loves nachos.
Upcoming Film Discussions
Wednesday September 23 at 7 PM
Location: Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408
Cinema Revolution Society & Intermedia Arts present a free screening and discussion of Lindsay Anderson's 1968 masterpiece 'If...' starring the inimitable Malcolm McDowell.
Three years before his infamous turn as ultraviolent ringleader of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell was already chilling the blood of audiences worldwide as the equally maladjusted troubled youth Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson's boarding school shocker "If..."
While Kubrick's funky dystopia provides at least the creature comfort of being set in a far-out near-future, Anderson's boarding school drama could almost be documentary. The camera floats amidst the boys as they jostle for social position, try to stay awake in class and suffer through countless rites of passage. But on the periphery of this tightly-ordered commune a group of marginalized misfits (lead by McDowell, of course!) begin to push back against the stiff upper lip of British society and call into question the thin line between patriarchal ordered and pure chaos.
Perhaps it's the ellipses in the title that says it all.
What if...
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