Debut Post for the North County Film Club Blog

Hi, I'm Nancy Javier, one of the board members of the North County Film Club. I've volunteered to create and keep a blog for the club. This is the first post.

What I'd like to do is keep you posted on the club's schedule, any club events, comments about films we've just seen, information about films in general and anything that seems important to you members.

Didn't we just love the film we saw on August 25th - A Bottle in the Gaza Sea?  If you missed it, you must trying renting it from Netflix (or your favorite rental place), it's a really great film.

After I saw it, I was a little frustrated about the ending. What happened next?
So I decided to write an alternate ending:

Naim is in Paris working on his French studies, living in a little romantic garret in Montmartre. He and Tal have continued their email relationship. But Tal is realistic. She continues her relationship with the guitar playing, pierce giving, blond Israeli.  But somehow she manages to get away from her parents and her beautiful blond folk singer. She slips away in the dead of night and flies to Paris.

Naim and Tal have agreed to meet at his place. After one night of love, Tal admits to Naim that they can never be together. She confesses that she has agreed to marry the Israeli. As Naim cries and they hug one last time, Tal says to Naim, “But we’ll always have Paris.

Last shot is of Tal boarding the plane for Jerusalem in tears, while Naim stands on the tarmac also in tears.

The end

Do you have another idea for an ending? I'd love to hear it. Just add it to the comments section of the blog. 

On September 8, we saw another wonderful film, The Imposter. What a stunner of a story. So many twists and turns. Whew!!

The discussion after the film, led very capably by John Anderson (isn't it wonderful having such a knowledgeable leader for the discussions?).  We miss Jennifer (who has moved to Israel, if you don't already know) but John is a great replacement and we're lucky to have him on our team.

This was my favorite comment after the film. In response to the question about how could they possibly have let the Imposter out of the country without checking his identity, was "You know, they're still using carbon paper in Spain!"

If you want to read more about this interesting case, here's a link to an article from the New Yorker. It's 17 pages long and covers a lot of the same territory as the film, but there are a few interesting facts that weren't in the film.

And I found it pretty darned interesting that Frederic has a Twitter account. You can keep up with all his current activities (if you can believe him!):

https://twitter.com/Francparler

Here are two films that are related to The Imposter that you might want to check out:

The Changeling
and
Catch Me If You Can

News from our intrepid leader, Jim:

a record 187 seats were sold for The Imposter
We now have 230 paid members

Nominations for the upcoming season are now in. You will be receiving information on them soon so you'll be able to vote for your favorites.

On September 22 we will be viewing the Oscar nominated animated short films. These are always fun and interesting. Hope to see you there.