What we’re about
[Note: This group is looking for a new owner! In the meantime, join the Toronto Philosophy Meetup to find many more online philosophy events and activities: https://4142298.xyz/the-toronto-philosophy-meetup/
The description below is from the previous organizer of the group.]
Welcome to the Calgary Philosophy Meetup! We're a local community for people interested in reading and discussing philosophy. We hold discussions and other events on a broad range of philosophical topics and problems. No previous experience is required for any of our meetups, only a willingness to engage with the works being discussed. The only basic ground-rule is to please, as with everywhere else in life, be polite and respectful during discussions.
Feel free to propose topics you would like to see (you can do this in the Discussions section), and please contact the organizers if you would like to host an event yourself, or organize events here on a regular basis.
The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing "Koker Trilogy" takes a simple premise — a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose all-important notebook he has accidentally taken — and transforms it into a miraculous child’s-eye adventure of the everyday. As our young hero zigzags determinedly across two towns, aided (and sometimes misdirected) by those he encounters, his quest becomes both a revealing portrait of rural Iranian society in all its richness and complexity and a touching parable about the meaning of personal responsibility. Sensitive and profound, Where Is the Friend’s House? is shot through with all the beauty, tension, and wonder a single day can contain.
"Like the neo-realist works from which it descends, deceptively simple and utterly profound." (Rotten Tomatoes)
"Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema." (Martin Scorcese)
"A classic of humanist filmmaking and a landmark in Iranian cinema." (TIFF: Toronto International Film Festival)
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Let's revisit Abbas Kiarostami and discuss his 1987 film Where Is the Friend’s House? (Persian: خانه دوست کجاست), recently voted the 72nd greatest movie of all time in Sight & Sound's international survey of filmmakers, and the 157th greatest of all time in the related poll of film critics and experts. The film, inspired by a poem by Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri, was one of Kiarostami's most successful films in Iran and his first film to gain major international attention.
The film is the first installment of Kiarostami's so-called "Koker Trilogy", which Criterion has called "a gradual outward zoom revealing the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life." We will watch the other two installments at later meetups. We previously discussed 3 other films by Kiarostami: Close-Up (1989), Taste of Cherry (1997), and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999).
Please watch the movie in advance and bring your thoughts, reactions, and queries to share with us at the meeting. You can stream it with a viewing link to be posted on the main event listing here.
We'll be joined by many other participants from the Toronto Philosophy Meetup at this meeting — https://4142298.xyz/the-toronto-philosophy-meetup/events/304791119/
Check out other film discussions in the group every Friday and occasionally other days.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- FTI: When is stubbornness good - and when is it bad?Link visible for attendees
The number one predictor of success is grit, tenacity, persistence, fortitude, etc. - These all sound like positive ways of positioning stubbornness. How can stubbornness be both good and bad at the same time? Well, it’s not… its good and bad in different situations, and we’ll try to help tease out exactly when its good and bad at this event.
I’ll review some quotes on stubbornness, analyzing each one one at a time, and then go about trying to create a “general rule” about when stubbornness is good vs. bad. Here are the quotes:
https://www.inspiringquotes.com/quotes-about-stubbornness/ZfznsUUfPwAHIsdF?liu=400af0ad191a50e7285bc80c2fe22b08&utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2437061245Come see if you can offer some wisdom to the group that I may be missing, or learn some wisdom I may have to offer, either one we expect nothing less than for you to form your own opinion based on your own critical thinking skills, which we’ll try to help you develop in this event like so many of our others.
Format: Lecture and discussion
Note: social time for our community 15 minutes before the presentation.
To get familiar with our organization, feel free to learn more here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E16-qv-OZZoKh4HSyHCtQ_eZA-ko_n3Kd3SwxfLpk84/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.qsvmnmkadvaqTo get familiar with our past events, feel free to check out our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmixGB9GdrptyEWovEj80zgAfter registering via zoom, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We publish our event recordings on our Youtube channel to offer our help to anyone who would like to but can’t attend the meeting, so we need to give this clause. If you don’t want to be recorded, just remain on mute and keep your video off.
Here’s our legal notice: For valuable consideration received, by joining this event I hereby grant Free Thinker Institute and its legal representatives and assigns, the irrevocable and unrestricted right to use and publish any and all Zoom recordings for trade, advertising and any other commercial purpose, and to alter the same without any restriction. I hereby release Free Thinker Institute and its legal representatives and assigns from all claims and liability related to said video recordings.
- Abbas Kiarostami: Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987) — Movie DiscussionLink visible for attendees
The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing "Koker Trilogy" takes a simple premise — a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose all-important notebook he has accidentally taken — and transforms it into a miraculous child’s-eye adventure of the everyday. As our young hero zigzags determinedly across two towns, aided (and sometimes misdirected) by those he encounters, his quest becomes both a revealing portrait of rural Iranian society in all its richness and complexity and a touching parable about the meaning of personal responsibility. Sensitive and profound, Where Is the Friend’s House? is shot through with all the beauty, tension, and wonder a single day can contain.
"Like the neo-realist works from which it descends, deceptively simple and utterly profound." (Rotten Tomatoes)
"Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema." (Martin Scorcese)
"A classic of humanist filmmaking and a landmark in Iranian cinema." (TIFF: Toronto International Film Festival)
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Let's revisit Abbas Kiarostami and discuss his 1987 film Where Is the Friend’s House? (Persian: خانه دوست کجاست), recently voted the 72nd greatest movie of all time in Sight & Sound's international survey of filmmakers, and the 157th greatest of all time in the related poll of film critics and experts. The film, inspired by a poem by Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri, was one of Kiarostami's most successful films in Iran and his first film to gain major international attention.
The film is the first installment of Kiarostami's so-called "Koker Trilogy", which Criterion has called "a gradual outward zoom revealing the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life." We will watch the other two installments at later meetups. We previously discussed 3 other films by Kiarostami: Close-Up (1989), Taste of Cherry (1997), and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999).
Please watch the movie in advance and bring your thoughts, reactions, and queries to share with us at the meeting. You can stream it with a viewing link to be posted on the main event listing here.
We'll be joined by many other participants from the Toronto Philosophy Meetup at this meeting — https://4142298.xyz/the-toronto-philosophy-meetup/events/304791119/
Check out other film discussions in the group every Friday and occasionally other days.
