SMART GIRLS Film Club

invites you to a home screening
and in-depth study of

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AGORA

Director: Alejandro Amenábar

Writers: Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil

Starring: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella and Oscar Isaac

Click here to see the official trailer

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Date: Friday evening, April 06 2012

Time:

Doors open at 6.15 PM.

Meals served: from 6.15 – 7.15 PM.

Movie + Discussion starts at 7.30 PM sharp and finishes at 9.45 PM sharp

(Please arrive well before 7.30 PM so as to not disrupt others’ film-watching.)

Venue: Home of Prodos & Barboo, 153 Lennox Street, Richmond. We’re located on Lennox between Bridge Road and Highett Street, in a light yellow or cream-colored house, trimmed in peeling dark green paint, with a matching pickett fence.

For Google Map CLICK HERE

Phone: 9428 1234 or 9428 1213

Cost: Zero. Non-members welcome if the guest of a registered member. You can join on the night.

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SMART GIRLS Film Club president, Barboo:

Agora is an historical drama set in Roman Egypt when Christianity was on the rise and Paganism was on the decline.

The movie exlores the tensions between dogmatism, reason, religion, science, Pagans, Christians, and Jews in the ancient world. But, of course, these tensions are with us still today and always will be to one degree or another. This story will always be relevant.

Agora is an historical drama. It uses certain historical figures and events of history – e.g., the main character, Hypatia, was a real historical figure, a pagan philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and teacher who was highly esteemed in her field.

And she *was* murdered by a group of Christians who felt threatened by her close friendship with and influence over the Roman prefect of Alexandria, Orestes.

But the story is not historically accurate in every respect, and I’m sure it was not meant to be. The writers take certain facts of history and weave them together with fiction to tell truths about human nature.

The story dramatizes the clash of the honest, reasoning mind versus minds corrupted by superstition, power-lust, mysticism, and tribal loyalties.

I never take historical movies as accurate history. Movies are for story-telling, and story-telling is for illustrating principles, truths about life and humanity. But the history in historical movies *is* good for making you aware of historical events and personages that you can research for yourself, to find out what is known of the literal truth.

For further reading about the movie, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_%28film%29

A brief biography of Hypatia with further links:

http://cosmopolis.com/people/hypatia.html

Hypatia on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

 

“Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked.
“Wherever one wants to be kissed,” I said.

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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony.
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.
Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas,
the way we live, what is happening.

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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty;
it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love.
Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.

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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent their growing.

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A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

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Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

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SMART GIRLS FILM CLUB

invites you to a home screening of

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COCO CHANEL (part 1 of 2)
with Barbara Bobulova
and Shirley MacLaine

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Date: Friday evening, June 24 2011

Time:

Doors open at 6.15 PM.

Food: Click here to see our menu! (Including our new range of “Choice Fresh Meals”!)

Movie + Discussion starts at 7.30 PM and finishes at 9.45 PM

(Please arrive well before 7.30 PM so as to not disrupt others’ film-watching.)

Venue: Home of Prodos & Barboo, 153 Lennox Street, Richmond. We’re located on Lennox between Bridge Road and Highett Street, in a light yellow or cream-colored house, trimmed in peeling dark green paint, with a matching pickett fence.

For Google Map CLICK HERE

Phone: 9428 1234 or 9428 1213

Cost: Zero. Non-members welcome if the guest of a registered member. You can join on the night.

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Here’s a very informative mini documentary about Coco Chanel made by some kids for the Texas History Fair …

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As a child, Marji lived in Tehran with dreams of being a prophet and an emulator of Bruce Lee …

A timely and timeless story of a young girl’s life under the Islamic Revolution … Satrapi is nine when fundamentalist rebels overthrow the Shah.

While Satrapi’s radical parents and their community initially welcome the ouster, they soon learn a new brand of totalitarianism is taking over.

SMART GIRLS FILM CLUB

invites you to a home screening of

PERSEPOLIS (2007)

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Date: Friday evening, March 23 2011

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