Part of our CINEMA IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS series. Friday, July 10, 2020 @ 10p, Netflix Streaming Service: BLUE RUIN (2013, Radius-TWC, dir by Jeremy Saulnier, streaming, 90 mns)
HOW TO: While we all work to be socially responsible during the age of coronavirus, Secret Movie Club is experimenting with news ways we can all come together as a community and watch great movies.
We want to keep this very reasonable since folks have to have Netflix to start with. So donate whatever works for you. $1 is fine with us.
Just make sure you download NETFLIX PARTY on a Chrome Browser. You'll see the initials NP in the upper right hand corner of browser after a succesful download.
Secret Movie Club will email the link for the Netflix Party at 30 minutes before showtime using the email you provide here. Click that link then click the NP in upper right hand corner. This will synch you to our screening. We will start the movie at exactly 5 minutes after the hour.
There will be a chat function that allows everyone to comment as we go.
The Secret Movie Club team will be offering trivia, history, insights, articles, deep dives throughout the movie(s). We're going to work to make this as rich a feast as possible utilizing the technology at hand.
Then we'll want your feedback immediately on how we can improve/make it better! This also will allow Secret Movie Clubbers from all over the world to join in on a virtual screening!
This week, we’ll be looking at three movies from the 2010’s that turned out to be more complex and mysterious than they at first appeared and have since gained quite huge cult followings.
Next up, we look at Jeremy Saulnier’s break-out feature film Blue Ruin which follows the clumsy, comic, yet simultaneously graphically violent revenge story of Dwight who is trying to exact retribution on the Cleland family for a feud that nobody can completely explain.
One of the key (in this programmer’s opinion) under $1million lightning in a bottle movies of the past 20 years that include other features like Sean Baker’s Tangerine, James Byrkit’s Coherence, Evan Glodell’s Bellflower, and Trey Edward Schults’ Krisha, among others, Blue Ruin plays like a brilliant student of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple but also goes its own way into much more moving, emotional, confused territory. Saulnier and his lead actor Macon Blair really delve into the ultimately pointless carnage that are the spoils of blood feuds like these.
At the same time, they strike a surprisingly emotional and comic tone that somehow works alongside the cinematically brilliant yet violent sequences of tit for tat.
Join us for a watch party and conversation on one of the most inspiring low low budget features of the past decade.