Indy Film Buffs Meetup Group

Join us for our monthly movie discussion on Zoom! First up will be our regular icebreaker round where we go “around the room” and invite everyone to talk about a movie you’ve watched recently. Give us a short summary, how you saw it and a recommendation or a warning.

At 8 o'clock we'll pivot to a group discussion based on the theme for 2024, the once-a-decade Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll. September's movie is Get Out (2017), the breakout film of director Jordan Peele. Get Out is the most recent American film on the list. Along with discussing the movie itself, we'll take it as a springboard for evaluating the pros and cons of nominating a new(ish) work of art to a "greatest of all time" list.

You can find the full Sight and Sound Top 100 list at the British Film Institute (BFI) website: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time

Info for Zoom Meetups: Indy Film Buffs operates on Eastern time. The Zoom link will be added to the Meetup event shortly before start time. If you're on the "Going" list but can't see the Zoom link at 7, please message me (Helen) via direct Meetup message and I'll reply with the link. As a best practice to avoid Zoom bombing, attendees who JOIN the meeting with camera off will be removed from the Zoom meeting.

Indy Film Buffs is a long-established movie club in Indianapolis. Movie lovers from anywhere in the country are welcome to join our Zoom discussions. If you live in Indy, we invite you to join us at some of our in-person events as well.

Tintin and the Blue Oranges (French: Tintin et les Oranges bleues) is a 1964 Franco-Spanish film directed by Philippe Condroyer and starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin. It was the second live-action film, with an original story based on characters from the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin, written and drawn by the Belgian artist Hergé. Tintin, with the help of his dog Milú, Captain Haddock and a group of children, tries to find the whereabouts of professor Tornasol and a Spanish colleague, who have been kidnapped in Spain after finding a solution to world hunger.
Feel free to bring a drink or a snack to share. We'll order some pizzas before the film. Please bring $5.00 if you'd like pizza to help with the cost. Hope to see you there!

Safety Last! is a comedy classic from the silent era. Come see the film with the famous image of the man hanging from the clock face.
This film is part of a free series shown at the Central Library.
We will meet in the lobby 15 minutes before the 2:30 showtime. After the film, we will go to Bazbeaux’s Pizza on Mass Ave to discuss Safety Last and any other movies like it.
We look forward to meeting you and sharing this classic movie.

Wicked (also known as Wicked – Part 1) is a 2024 film directed by Jon M. Chu from a screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. It is the first of a two-part film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which in turn was loosely based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire. The film stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, with Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum in supporting roles.
Set in the Land of Oz, largely before Dorothy Gale's arrival from Kansas, the plot covers the events of the musical's first act, following green-skinned Elphaba's studies at Shiz University and the beginning of her path to ultimately becoming the Wicked Witch of the West, alongside an unlikely friendship with a classmate who later becomes Glinda the Good Witch of the North. Here's the trailer:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262426/
Tickets are $13.00 per person. We'll be gathered in the lobby before the film. The film starts at 7PM so I've made the meetup time 630 PM to give us time to socialize before the film. If there's enough interest after the film, we'll go to a nearby restaurant to discuss it. Hope to see you there!