Saving Face at Milwood Branch Library
June 20th at 6pm
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all keeping cool as the city begins to heat up!
First, I am excited to present you all with a new survey with some more options for future movie nights in the fall and winter. I have our summer screenings all planned out, and I am excited to announce those later in this newsletter as well. People have shown a lot of interest in Matilda, and I wasn’t able to fit it in for the summer, so I will find a time to show that soon too.
For the survey, I have selected 20 potential titles in order to maximize variety offered (hopefully) without making the choices too overwhelming. But remember, you are welcome to vote for as many titles as you like, so no need to overthink it! I tried to take suggestions and requests from the last survey into consideration while balancing licensing and runtime restraints. I really appreciate your participation so I can make these movie nights as appealing as possible for the community! :)
Here it is: https://forms.gle/9vbziYCF2GgtLDsv5
Thanks again for bearing with me between the rocky streaming issues in April and the power outage last month. Fingers crossed our screening this month goes smoothly! I own a DVD of Saving Face, so hopefully we will be all set. It’s a movie that we don’t have a copy of in the Austin Public Library System, so this is a special opportunity to see this hidden gem of a movie!
Our screening will be Thursday June 20th at 6pm to celebrate Pride Month! It is an effortlessly warm and welcoming movie about a young Chinese American doctor who navigates her relationship with her mother (played by Joan Chen, known in the U.S. for her role as Josie on Twin Peaks), who she has yet to come out to, and a new relationship with a ballerina who is also a Chinese American. The story takes an empathetic and unexpected turn that subverts the expectations of other films that contrast older, more traditional generations with younger more open-minded ones. Directed by Alice Wu, this film is the first movie centering a lesbian love story between two Asian American women, and it remains one of the only. With the additional nuanced portrait of a mother and daughter coming to understand the other and live their lives on their own terms, there is something for everyone in this well-rounded movie.
For the rest of the summer, I will finally be featuring the most popular choices from this past survey I was circulating, and I have been given permission to have two movie nights in July and August! So, without further ado, here are the screenings I have planned:
Please note that because of independence day, our screening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit will take place on Monday July 1st instead of a being a usual Thursday evening screening. All of these titles are beloved classics, and judging by how many votes they all got, people seem familiar with them. So, I won’t say too much more about them for now! I tried to group them by theme like Traey does over at North Village Branch, which brings me to….
… Traey’s movie nights for the next couple months!
Unfortunately, the screening for The Swimmer has already passed, but there are still three great movies coming up for you to see. Here they are:
So that’s a lot of movie news for you… hopefully it wasn’t too much of an overload. But as things get even hotter, watching movies in the air conditioning for free is a great way to spend time if you ask me.
Hope to see some of you at an upcoming screening here at Milwood, and until then, take care!
-Becca