[NFBWATlk] February Events

[Steve Cook]

Hi All, 

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Below are the events for February that everyone is invited to! All movies are audio described without video. Below the Zoom information is mor information about each movie. If you have any suggestions for upcoming movies, send them to  movies at nfbofsc.org

All event start at 8:00 PM Eastern

Friday, February 2, 2024
Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

Friday, February 9, 2024
Ghost 1990

Friday, February 16, 2024
Barbie 2023 (I have had several request to show this again)

Friday, February 23, 2024
Trivia Night
Send David Bundy a message at bundy at pobox.com to register.

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Killers of the Flower Moon

Rated R
Run time 3 hours and 26 minutes

Osage Nation elders bury a ceremonial pipe, mourning their descendants' assimilation into White American society. Wandering through their Oklahoma reservation, during the annual "flower moon" phenomenon of fields of blooms,[14] several Osage find oil gushing from the ground. The tribe becomes wealthy, as it retains mineral rights and members share in oil-lease revenues, though law requires white court-appointed legal guardians to manage the money of full and half-blood members, assuming them "incompetent".[b]

In 1919, Ernest Burkhart returns from World War I to live with his brother Byron and uncle William King Hale on Hale's large reservation ranch. Hale, a reserve deputy sheriff and cattle rancher, poses as a friendly benefactor of the Osage, speaking their language and bestowing gifts. Ernest and Byron commit armed robbery against the Osage. Ernest meets Mollie Kyle, an Osage whose family owns oil headrights, via his day job as a cab driver. A romance develops, and the two marry in a ceremony mixing Roman Catholic and Osage traditions. Over time, they raise three children.

Hale secretly orders the contract killings of multiple wealthy Osage. He explains that Ernest will inherit more headrights if more of Mollie's family dies. Mollie is diabetic, and her mother Lizzie is ill. After Mollie's sister Minnie dies of a mysterious illness, Hale orders Byron to kill Mollie's other sister, the rebellious Anna. Lizzie and the Osage council blame the reservation's white residents and urge the tribe to fight back.

A newsreel of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, in which white people destroyed a black community and killed numerous residents, causes further concern amongst the Osage that they could suffer similarly. Lizzie sees her ancestors welcome her to the afterlife as she dies. Hale orders Ernest to arrange the murder of Henry Roan, Mollie's first husband. However, Ernest botches the assassination and Hale paddles him inside a Masonic Temple as punishment.

Since Hale is the local political boss, and both the local sheriff and judges are in his pocket, no investigations are made. An Osage Nation representative seeking to lobby Congress is murdered in Washington, D.C., while private detective William J. Burns, who was discreetly hired by Mollie, is attacked by Ernest and Byron, who run him off of the reservation.

Hale orders Ernest to murder Mollie's last surviving sister Reta and her husband Bill by having criminal Acie Kirby blow up their house. As the last surviving member of her family, Mollie inherits their headrights. Despite her illness, she travels to Washington with an Osage delegation and asks President Calvin Coolidge for help. Because of this, Hale orders Ernest to poison Mollie's insulin to "slow her down". Mollie's condition worsens, and Ernest exhibits similar symptoms after ingesting the poison himself.

Due to Mollie's lobbying, the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) sends Agent Thomas Bruce White Sr. and assistants to investigate; they quickly discover the truth. Hale tries to cover his tracks by murdering his own hitmen, including Acie, but White arrests Hale and Ernest. While Ernest is being interrogated, two agents are sent to question Mollie and find her near death. They rush her to the hospital where the doctors discover that she has been repeatedly poisoned and quickly notify White and the other agents. Mollie recovers under the care of the staff.

White persuades Ernest to confess and turn state's evidence against his uncle. W. S. Hamilton, Hale's attorney, tries to convince Ernest to claim he was tortured and recant. However, after one of his daughters dies of whooping cough, Ernest testifies against his uncle, wanting to be around for his remaining family. Hale unsuccessfully tries to have his nephew murdered. Mollie meets with Ernest after he testifies, and leaves him after he refuses to admit to poisoning her.

A radio drama years later reveals the aftermath: Ernest and Hale were convicted and received life sentences. Both were paroled after years of incarceration, despite Osage protests to the parole board. Byron served no prison time due to a hung jury.[c] The Shoun brothers, who gave Ernest the poison for Mollie and were implicated in other "wasting deaths", were never prosecuted due to lack of evidence. Mollie divorced Ernest, married a man named John Cobb, and died of diabetes in 1937 at the age of 50. She was buried with her parents, sisters and daughter. Her obituary did not mention the Osage murders. The film closes with an overhead view of a 21st-century Osage powwow dancing circle.

Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart, a World War I veteran
Robert De Niro as William King Hale, Ernest's uncle
Lily Gladstone as Mollie Burkhart, Ernest's wife
Jesse Plemons as Thomas Bruce White Sr., a BOI agent leading the murder investigation
Tantoo Cardinal as Lizzie Q, Mollie's mother
John Lithgow as Peter Leaward, the lead prosecutor in the trials of Hale and Burkhart
Brendan Fraser as W. S. Hamilton, Hale's attorney
Cara Jade Myers as Anna, Mollie's first sister
JaNae Collins as Reta, Mollie's second sister
Jillian Dion as Minnie, Mollie's third sister
Jason Isbell as Bill Smith, Minnie's husband
William Belleau as Henry Roan, Mollie's first husband and close friend and later victim of Hale
Louis Cancelmi as Kelsie Morrison, an acquaintance and accomplice of Burkhart and Hale
Scott Shepherd as Byron Burkhart, Ernest's younger brother
Brent Langdon as Barney McBride, a white oilman who travels to Washington, D.C. to seek federal help in solving the murders
Everett Waller as Paul Red Eagle
Talee Redcorn as Non-Hon-Zhin-Ga[d] / Traditional Leader
Yancey Red Corn as Chief Bonnicastle
Tatanka Means as John Wren, a Native American undercover BOI agent
Tommy Schultz as Blackie Thompson
Sturgill Simpson as Henry Grammer
Ty Mitchell as John Ramsey
Gary Basaraba as Burns, a detective
Charlie Musselwhite as Alvin Reynolds, an agent
Pat Healy as John Burger
Steve Witting as Dr. James Shoun
Steve Routman as Dr. David Shoun
Gene Jones as Pitts Beatty
Michael Abbott Jr. as Frank Smith, an agent
Jack White as radio show actor
Larry Sellers as Non-Hon-Zhin-Ga[d]
Barry Corbin as Undertaker Turton
Randy Houser as Scott Mathis
Pete Yorn as Acie Kirby, explosives expert
Katherine Willis as Myrtle Hale
Norma Jean as Vera
Elden Henson as Duke Burkhart
Steve Eastin as Judge John Calvin Pollock
Larry Fessenden as radio voice (for Hale)
Martin Scorsese as radio show producer
Vince Giordano as radio Show Bandleader

Ghost

Rating PG 13
Run time 2 hours & 7 minutes

Banker Sam Wheat and his girlfriend, artist Molly Jensen, renovate and move into a Manhattan loft with the help of Sam's friend and co-worker Carl Bruner. One night, after attending the theater with Molly, Sam is killed when a mugger tries to steal his wallet. Sam is shocked to realize he is a ghost, but when angels appear to take his soul to Heaven, he returns to Molly.

Weeks later, in an effort to raise her spirits, Carl takes Molly for a walk. When the mugger enters their apartment in search of something a few minutes later, Sam scares their cat into attacking him and he flees. Sam follows the mugger, Willie Lopez, back to his apartment, and learns that the mugging was planned when Willie makes a call to an unknown person. He promises to return to Sam and Molly's apartment to continue looking for what he came for.

After leaving Willie's apartment, Sam comes across charlatan Oda Mae Brown's psychic reading parlor, where she works with her sisters. When Oda Mae hears Sam's voice, she realizes she must have inherited her mother's true psychic gift. Sam pesters Oda Mae by singing to her all night until she agrees to tell Molly about Willie. Molly goes to the police, who have no criminal file for Willie Lopez but they show her Oda Mae's lengthy record that includes fraud charges and several aliases, leaving Molly disheartened.

Sam eventually discovers it was Carl who had Willie attack him to obtain his book of bank passwords, in order to transfer laundered money for drug dealers into one account under the fictitious name "Rita Miller". Determined to protect Molly, Sam enlists the help of a poltergeist haunting the New York City subway to teach him how to move physical objects. Afterwards, Sam convinces Oda Mae to pose as "Rita Miller" and withdraw the money, which he has her give to charity. Sam starts to haunt Carl, who becomes frantic to find the money once he realizes it has been withdrawn. Carl visits Molly and learns that Oda Mae was the person who initiated the withdrawal.

Sam warns Oda Mae and her sisters and instructs them to hide just before Carl and Willie arrive. Sam terrorizes Willie until he runs screaming into the street and is killed after being struck by a car. As Carl flees, demons drag Willie's soul to Hell.

Sam and Oda Mae return to his apartment, where Sam levitates a penny towards Molly to confirm his presence. After Molly calls the police, Oda Mae lets Sam possess her body and he slow-dances with Molly, unaware that using her body saps his energy. Carl forces his way into Molly's apartment while she and Oda Mae flee upstairs. Carl holds Molly at gunpoint and demands the money Oda Mae withdrew from the bank. Sam, now recovered, frees her and pushes a heavy scaffold onto Carl, crippling him. In desperation, Carl swings a metal hook at Sam before trying to escape through a window. The hook swings back, shattering the window pane which slides down and fatally impales Carl in the chest. The demons that took Willie's soul return to take Carl's soul to Hell.

Sam finds Molly and Oda Mae and asks if they are alright. Molly can now hear Sam, much to their surprise. Soon after, a Heavenly light fills the room, revealing Sam's presence to both Oda Mae and Molly. Sam tells Oda Mae her mother would be proud and tells Molly he loves her. They share a kiss and their final goodbyes, and Sam walks into the light to join the angels in Heaven.

Cast
Patrick Swayze as Sam Wheat
Demi Moore as Molly Jensen
Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown
Tony Goldwyn as Carl Bruner
Rick Aviles as Willie Lopez
Vincent Schiavelli as Subway Ghost
Armelia McQueen as Oda Mae's Sister, Clara Brown
Gail Boggs as Oda Mae's Sister, Louise Brown
Phil Leeds as Emergency Room Ghost
Augie Blunt as Orlando
Stephen Root as Police Sgt
Bruce Jarchow as Lyle Ferguson

Barbie

Rating PG 13
Run time 1 hour & 54 minutes

Stereotypical Barbie ("Barbie") and fellow dolls reside in Barbieland, a matriarchal society populated by different versions of Barbies, Kens, and a group of discontinued models who are treated like outcasts due to their unconventional traits. While the Kens spend their days playing at the beach, considering it their profession, the Barbies hold prestigious jobs in science, politics, media, and so on. Beach Ken ("Ken") is only happy when he is with Barbie, and seeks a closer relationship, but she rebuffs him in favor of other activities and female friendships.

One evening at a dance party, Barbie is suddenly stricken with worries about mortality. Overnight, she develops bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet, disrupting her usual routines the next day. She seeks out Weird Barbie, a disfigured doll, who tells her she must find the child playing with her in the real world to cure her afflictions. Ken stows away in her convertible to join her, to which Barbie reluctantly agrees.

Arriving at Venice Beach, Barbie punches a man for groping her, leading to her and Ken's brief arrest. Alarmed by their presence, Mattel's CEO orders their recapture. Barbie tracks down her owner, a teenage girl named Sasha, who criticizes her for encouraging unrealistic beauty standards. Distraught, Barbie discovers that Gloria, a Mattel employee and Sasha's mother, inadvertently caused her existential crisis after Gloria began playing with Sasha's old Barbie toys. Mattel attempts to put Barbie in a toy box for remanufacturing, but she escapes with Gloria and Sasha's help and the three travel to Barbieland with Mattel executives in pursuit.

Meanwhile, Ken learns about patriarchy and feels respected for the first time. Returning to Barbieland before Barbie does, he persuades the other Kens to take over, and the Barbies are indoctrinated into submissive roles, such as agreeable girlfriends, housewives, and maids. Barbie arrives and fails to convince everyone to return to the way things were. She becomes depressed, but Gloria gives her a speech about society's conflicting expectations of women, restoring Barbie's self-confidence.

With the assistance of Sasha, Weird Barbie, Allan, and the discontinued dolls, Gloria's speech deprograms the Barbies from their indoctrination. They then manipulate the Kens into fighting among themselves, distracting them from enshrining male superiority into Barbieland's constitution, and the Barbies regain power. Having now experienced systemic oppression for themselves, the Barbies resolve to rectify the faults of their previous society, emphasizing better treatment of the Kens and all outcasts.

Barbie and Ken apologize to each other, acknowledging their mistakes. Ken bemoans his lack of purpose without Barbie, so she encourages him to find an autonomous identity. Barbie, who remains unsure of her own identity, meets with the spirit of Ruth Handler, Mattel co-founder and creator of the Barbie doll, who explains that Barbie's story has no set ending and her ever-evolving history surpasses her roots.

Barbie decides to become human and return to the real world, and is bidden goodbye by the Barbies, Kens, and Mattel executives. Sometime later, Gloria, her husband, and Sasha take Barbie, now going by the name "Barbara Handler", to her first gynecologist appointment.

Cast
Margot Robbie at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California.
Ryan Gosling at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California.
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling portray Barbie and Ken.
Margot Robbie as Barbie, often referred to as "Stereotypical Barbie"[10][11]
Main variations of Barbie played by:
Issa Rae as President Barbie[12][13]
Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie[14][13]
Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie[15][13]
Emma Mackey as Physicist Barbie[16][13]
Hari Nef as Dr. Barbie[13]
Sharon Rooney as Lawyer Barbie[12]
Ana Cruz Kayne as Judge Barbie[12][13]
Ritu Arya as Journalist Barbie[12][13]
Dua Lipa as Mermaid Barbie[17][13]
Nicola Coughlan as Diplomat Barbie[12][13]
Ryan Gosling as Ken, often referred to as "Beach Ken"[18]
Main variations of Ken played by:
Simu Liu as Tourist Ken/"Rival Ken"[19][20][13]
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Basketball Ken[12]
Ncuti Gatwa as Artist Ken[19][12]
Scott Evans as Stereotypical Ken[12]
John Cena as Kenmaid, a merman Ken[21][22]
America Ferrera as Gloria, a Mattel employee who helps Barbie in the real world[23]
Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, Gloria's daughter[24][25]
Rhea Perlman as Ruth Handler, a co-founder of Mattel[5]
Helen Mirren as the narrator[26]
Will Ferrell as the CEO of Mattel[27]
Michael Cera as Allan[28]
Connor Swindells as Aaron Dinkins, a low-level Mattel employee
Jamie Demetriou as the CFO of Mattel
Emerald Fennell as Midge[29]
Asim Chaudhry as a Mattel warehouse employee
Ray Fearon as Dan at the FBI
Erica Ford as Skipper[30]
Hannah Khalique-Brown as "Growing Up" Skipper[31]
Mette Narrative as Barbie Video Girl
Marisa Abela as Teen Talk Barbie[32]
Lucy Boynton as Proust Barbie
Rob Brydon as Sugar Daddy Ken[12]
Tom Stourton as Earring Magic Ken[33]
Ann Roth as the woman on the bench[34]
Annie Mumolo as Anxiety Mom[35]
Lauren Holt as Time Mom[36][35]
Ryan Piers Williams as Gloria's husband[37]


Steve Cook
You are invited to join us on the 1st and 2nd Friday of each month at 8:00 PM Eastern for audio described movies using the below Zoom platform! 
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