The Documentary Film Group will be gathering for dinner at Tobacco Road in Chapel Hill to discuss a documentary film each month. You can check out the Tobacco Road menu by clicking HERE.
The documentaries are all available on Netflix unless noted otherwise and participants should watch the documentary selection before coming to the meeting where we will discuss the film over dinner. Seating is limited so please be sure to register for this program on the Newcomers Website.
The December film is: Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
In the intimate, documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, actor and director Griffin Dunne unearths a treasure trove of archival footage and talks at length to his “Aunt Joan” about the eras she covered and the eventful life she’s lived, including partying with Janis Joplin in a house full of L.A. rockers; hanging in a recording studio with Jim Morrison; and cooking dinner for one of Charles Manson’s women for a magazine story. Didion guides us through the sleek literati scene of New York in the 1950's and early 1960's, when she wrote for Vogue; her return to her home state of California for two turbulent decades; the writing of her seminal books, including Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album; her film scripts, including The Panic in Needle Park; her view of 1980's and 1990s political personalities; and the meeting of minds that was her long marriage to writer John Gregory Dunne. For the past 50 years, Joan Didion has been our premier chronicler of the ebb and flow of America’s cultural and political tides with observations on her personal – and our own – upheavals, downturns, life changes, and states of mind.
Questions: Contact Norma Gindes at normagindes@gmail.com or at 201-951-5140.
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If you would like to nominate a documentary film for discussion, please send your suggestions to normagindes@gmail.com.