September Newsletter

September 2023 - Time

This Monday, September 18th we will be screening the 2020 Garrett Bradley documentary Time. Bradley films Fox Rich as she fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence. The movie interweaves years worth of home video Fox captured of their children, so her husband could witness important life events. The film is a powerful meditation on the passage of time and incarceration's impact on families.

Cinema Club meets in the Aspen Drive Library Meeting Room in Vernon Hills. No registration is required. Add it to your calendar so you don't forget!

Here's a few articles to skim beforehand...

Time in the Mind

The Criterion essay for Time's release is an excellent primer on both the film and the filmmaker Garret Bradley. Give it a read if you've never heard of this film before and want to understand some context before our screening.

"The very texture of Fox’s digital footage seems alive because it is deteriorating, like bodies do, showing the effects of age. It’s not difficult to understand why Bradley, when assembling this opening montage, a kind of shadow film, was attracted to the archive, its totemic meaning, for it contains not just the vital stuff of family maintenance but the awareness of history being made."

Do the Crime, Do the Time

NPR interview with director Garrett Bradley about how she developed a relationship with Fox and how Time unexpectedly developed into a full-length documentary. They also discuss the film's ideas of love, hope, and forgiveness as they relate to our prison system.

"It felt to me like I had, like, a real calling, frankly. I was able to see that there was a real absence in stories and films that were really speaking to incarceration from a point of view of the family. And that was really looking at the effects of incarceration, the effects of the facts."

Next Movie: Blow Out

October 16, 2023

Aspen Drive Library Meeting Room

6:30pm - Film screening followed by discussion.

1981 | Rated R | 1h 48min

A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

With John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow.

DROP IN. No registration required.

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