September 22, 2023

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FALL FOLIO, 50th Anniversary Edition - PREVIEW

With much appreciation and gratitude to CAC Director of Marketing and Communication Nate Close, and our generous friends at Maiarelli Studio, we are excited to share this PREVIEW of the 50th Anniversary edition of our FOLIO --featuring a huge array of special events planned for this Fall, including our 50th Anniversary CAC Through the Decades series.

Maiarelli Studio provides pro bono brand and design services to the Cinema Arts Centre, and supports the production and created the new look of our Quarterly Folio. See our Spotlight feature on Maiarelli Studio HERE.

Nate Close became our first Director of Marketing and Communication in 2018 - a position that evolved from the previous position of Director of Publicity and Promotion, and has helped lead the way in bringing our communications to a new level.

We hope you enjoy this PREVIEW of the 50th Anniversary edition of our FOLIO, which should arrive in our Members' mailboxes soon!

CAC Co-Director Dylan Skolnick Reports Back from the Toronto International Film Festival

Dylan Skolnick: After several years absence due to the pandemic, I returned to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to scout films for the Cinema. TIFF is a vast smorgasbord of cinematic offering, featuring over 300 movies. Every year TIFF presents a deep cross-section of new movies. Unlike other festivals that are more specialized, TIFF’s programming lays out the vast possibilities of cinema, covering the spectrum from Hollywood blockbusters to the most experimental and personal works. There was a general consensus among my colleagues that this was a strong year for TIFF, with a lot of good movies playing. Over the course of a week, I saw 25 movies, many of which will be featured here at the Cinema in the coming months. I hope you will choose to catch some of them when they come to Huntington. Here are ten of my personal favorites from the festival…  

ANATOMY OF A FALL

"Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or, and starring German actress Sandra Hüller, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is a riveting portrait of a complex woman put on trial for the murder of her spouse."

THE ZONE OF INTEREST

"Jonathan Glazer won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes for this horror about Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife, who quite literally live amongst the ashes of their actions."

LA CHIMERA

"Led by a revelatory Josh O’Connor, and supported by Isabella Rossellini and Alba Rohrwacher, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera is a dream-like romp through Italy’s archaeological and cinematic past."

FALLEN LEAVES

"Two solitary people in Helsinki look for a way out of their loneliness in this warm-hearted, tragicomic triumph from Aki Kaurismäki."

THE BOY AND THE HERON

"Already acclaimed as a masterpiece in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki’s new film begins as a simple story of loss and love, and rises to become a staggering work of imagination." (Opening at CAC on 12/8)

THE DELINQUENTS

"Argentinian writer-director Rodrigo Moreno reinvents the heist movie from the inside out with this playful, inventive story about work-life balance."

AMERICAN FICTION

"Jeffrey Wright stars in Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s Erasure — a wicked satire about the commodification of marginalized voices and a portrait of an artist forced to re-examine his integrity."

THE MONK AND THE GUN

"Set in 2006, when the Kingdom of Bhutan began its transition to democracy, this playful ensemble drama from writer-director Pawo Choyning Dorji is a poignant parable about the impossibility of embracing modernity without reckoning with the past."

HIS THREE DAUGHTERS

"A tense, captivating, and touching portrait of family dynamics starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne as sisters who converge after their father’s health declines."

EVIL DOES NOT EXIST

"A place of bucolic serenity is threatened by cynical urban developers, in this exquisite slow burn from Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car, TIFF ’21) that reveals the hidden potential for transformation on both sides of its fraught power dynamic."

OUR NEXT CONVERSATION with CROSSING PARTY LINES:

TUE, OCT 17 · 7:00 PM EDT

Media Bias and You

RSVP at LINK: https://www.meetup.com/crossing-party-lines-ny-long-island/events/296201710/

CROSSING PARTY LINES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LISA SWALLOW WILL BE WITH US FOR THIS CONVERSATION.

Many Americans have been increasingly concerned about “Media bias”, which refers to the perception or reality that media outlets, including newspapers, television networks, websites, and social media platforms, may present information in a way that is partial or slanted toward a particular viewpoint, ideology, or interest. There are many forms of media bias including but not limited to political bias, commercial bias (profit motives), ownership bias (personal or financial interests of the owners), sourcing bias (specific sources & experts come with their own biases), cultural & social bias etc. Media bias can contribute to misinformation, disinformation, polarization, and a breakdown in trust between the media and the public. It can also distort public discourse and hinder constructive debates on important topics. At this meetup, we will discuss this complex challenge, explore its causes & some potential solutions.

1. What are you thinking about when you talk about “media bias”?
2. What clues or signs do you look for which tell you that the media you are reading/ watching is biased?
3. What media sources do you get your news from and why do you trust them?
4. What media do you avoid and why?
5. Was there a time when you thought that the media was not biased or less biased? If so, when did you lose that trust and why?
6. What factors, do you think, have played the biggest role in fueling media bias?
7. How might your own biases feed media bias?
8. What solutions, if any, do you think there are to this problem?

Join the Crossing Party Lines discussion and have a voice in our nation’s conversation! People of all views are welcomed, appreciated, and heard.

Please plan to arrive at the beginning of the meetup for Meet & Greet before we sit down for conversation.

Suggested Reading:

How Reliable is your news source -

All Sides Media Bias chart

AdFonts Media Interactive Media Bias Chart

Washington Post: How breaking news got panelized OR Does anyone even know what “the news media” is any more?

UxDesign: How tackling “selective narrative” could help restore trust in journalism?

Our own personal biases at work

Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Bias Chart

The Cognitive Bias Codex

Stepping out of our filter bubbles

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