Latest Meeting Notes

We had an overcast and blustery day for our last park meeting of the summer season.

• Bill facilitated the meeting while Laurie was enjoying a multi-day bike trip

  • We took her advice to "talk fast" to get out of the less-than-ideal weather in a reasonable amount of time. 😉

• We opened the meeting, welcoming some new folks: Welcome to Jane and Marianne!

We solicited any last comments on "The Four Seasons" from August.

• Some members watched the new Netflix series after seeing the movie and enjoyed it, finding it interesting how the story was updated for current times.

Lettie led us in a great discussion on Hitchcock's 1954 classic "Rear Window". 

• The discussion included:

  • Great building of tension

    • We should expect no less from "The master of suspense".

  • We enjoyed the backstories that Jeff invented for his courtyard neighbors

  • Voyerism

    • Was Jeff a hero or a Peeping Tom

    • Consensus was that Lisa and Stella were more the heroines of the movie than Jeff, since they had to do all the dangerous work

    • Is movie watching a form of voyeurism?

  • How hard it was for Jeff to get the people around him to believe that Thorwald murdered his wife

  • Some trivia about the movie

October's meeting

• Post meeting, it was decided that Laurie would lead a discussion on another movie from 1954, the Billy Wilder classic "Sabrina".

• The meeting will be on October 7, and we will be back at the Wheelhouse as we enter the chillier months

November's meeting

• Maryanne will be leading a discussion on 2009's "The Boat that Rocked" (originally titled "Pirate Radio")

• It was noticed that November's meeting, planned for the 4th, overlaps with the Rehoboth Beach International Film Festival (Nov 3-9).

  • We may decide to push our meeting back a week to deconflict things

An appeal: Please consider leading a discussion!

• It would be great if everyone would lead a movie discussion; otherwise, we will just have the same few people who have led multiple discussions doing it

  • We want to help our members explore and appreciate a wide variety of films from various genres and time periods

  • It will help expand everyone's movie-viewing experience and maybe expose others to a movie that will become a new favorite of theirs

Hope to see you in October!

• Laurie will be back to coordinate things and facilitate the meeting while Bill is enjoying a trip "Down Under".