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Political Films Meet-Up: NIGHT AND FOG / HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

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**Political Films Meet-Up: *Night and Fog* (1956), *Hiroshima Mon Amour* (1959)** Let’s talk about movies! Join movie club member Clay Vaughn for our next Political Films discussion with two films by French director Alain Resnais. *Night and Fog* is a short documentary on the Nazi concentration camp system commissioned to mark the 10-year anniversary of their liberation. *Hiroshima Mon Amour* is a feature-length meditation on trauma and memory told through a romance between a Japanese man and French woman, both survivors of WWII. **Here’s how The Portland Movie Club meet-ups work:** * Just like a book club, we watch the movie on our own time before we meet. * We'll meet at Lucky Lab on SE Hawthorne at 4pm on the scheduled date. * We'll typically have a sign at our table(s) but at least we'll try to be obvious and identifiable. * Grab some food and drinks to support our generous hosts and spend some time socializing and discussing this movie with us. **A Few Notes about the film:** These films contain graphic imagery and deal with difficult subject matter, be prepared. And while this is a double feature, the total combined runtime is barely over two hours. **Viewing Options for the film:** *Hiroshima Mon Amour* is available to rent via YouTube, Amazon Prime, and others. *Night and Fog* is available to stream for subscribers of HBO MAX or the Criterion Channel, and there are DVD and Bluray copies available to rent at Movie Madness for both movies. **About Political Films:** This series started out focusing on the New Republic article "[The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time](https://newrepublic.com/article/173376/100-political-films-new-republic-list)" published in June 2023, but we've since expanded well beyond the list. Both the documentaries and narrative fiction films we discuss tend to include difficult imagery and subject matter, we suggest the website "[Does the Dog Die?](https://www.doesthedogdie.com/)" for content warnings. **Tips:** Once again, we do not watch the movie at the meet-up. All members watch the movie on their own time before we meet to discuss it. You don't have to watch the movie to join us, but it'll make more sense if you do. Feel free to bring along any notes, books, or articles you'd like to share with the group. At the end of the discussion we'll pass around a ballot and vote on a slate of options for the next discussion. We typically alternate between documentaries and fiction films. So if you come to a meet-up to discuss a documentary, you'll vote on a ballot of fiction films for next time, and vice versa. **[Films previously discussed in the political group](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rheZx_uu3hoorFFTytkIpzEEz3n3KNBgXQy72QrCHMg/edit?usp=sharing)** **The Portland Movie Club is on Discord!** Are you on Discord? Join the [Portland Movie Club!](https://discord.gg/dUevBCT5bm)

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