Foxcatcher
Back in 2015, I had planned a weekend getaway with friends at my family's cabin for my 30th birthday. Between the winter's cold and debilitating plumbing problems, the trip was cast asunder, and I was left scrambling for alternatives. One of the trip's activities had been to watch Foxcatcher as a group and discuss it at dinner afterward. I don't recall exactly how the plan got reconfigured, but we instead initiated a private screening at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, followed by dinner. 79
The blu-ray wasn't scheduled to be released until the Tuesday after my birthday, but since I worked at a Viva Video, I secured my copy five days in advance.
At BMFI, we were upgraded from a lecture room to a multimedia room, where I gave a brief speech about my love for Foxcatcher. The screening went over well, and afterward I was presented with a theatrical one-sheet by a BMFI staff member. We then went to dinner, where the film was briefly and glancingly discussed, then went back to my parents house for drinks and, as we called it, "rabblery".
Not too long after this, one of our friends wondered if we couldn't regularly hold film screenings followed by discussions at a coffee shop or bar. By that September, my fiancée <PERSON> and I conceived of an evening with friends where we would watch a film as a group with the intention of engaging in discussion thereafter, and thus State Street Movie Night was born, so named for our apartment on State St. in the heart of Media, Pennsylvania. 410