ENTER YOUR SUBMISSION TO BECOME ELIGIBLE TO WIN THE ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE: 50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS DVD AND BOOK COLLECTION!

This fall, we viewed a variety of Oscar® contenders from home and abroad – UK, Australia, Germany – with memorable performances from Abbie Cornish, Clive Owen, Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright Penn, Colin Firth and Helen Mirren, among others. We also experienced some exquisite cinematography, succinct editing and harmonious soundtracks.

For the first time this fall, we asked you to rate our films on the comment cards in more detail. Your feedback is always sent to the film distributors, which they find very helpful in marketing their films, but we thought it would be fun to use that data as part of a contest to see how well you can guess your club city's majority opinion of the films. So, introducing the first annual...

End-of-Season Contest!

Here's how to participate:
    • This contest is only for enrolled members of the fall 2009 series (don't worry if you're a new member this winter/spring: we will be holding another contest for you after this season, allowing you to be eligible to win a second prize, as well as the grand prize).
    • Complete step one below and submit your guesses of the best and worst in each category this fall (Acting, Writing, Cinematography, Editing and Sound/Score) – keeping in mind that you are trying to guess your club city's majority opinion.
    • The first member in your city to come closest to guessing all the correct responses will win a signed copy of Atlanta Moderator Matthew Bernstein's new book, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television!
    • Note: there is deadline for submitting your guesses! The next page will display your city's deadline.

We'll hold a similar contest after the winter/spring 2010 series. Then, the winners from the fall and winter/spring in each city (so 15 members in all) will be eligible to win the grand prize: The Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films DVD and book collection, which we'll determine this summer by luck of the draw – literally by pulling 1 of the 15 names out of a hat.

Step One:
First Name*Last Name*
Email* Club City*
* = REQUIRED IF YOU WANT TO WIN!


 
 
 
 

About the Fall Prize:

A copy of the book Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television, signed by the author/Atlanta Cinema Club Moderator, Matthew Bernstein. “Matthew Bernstein's Screening a Lynching is an impeccably researched and consistently enlightening inquiry into the media backfire from a notorious instance of a commonplace practice – the lynching in 1915 of the convicted rapist-murderer Leo Frank, a Jew from New York, by a mob of outraged Georgians. A marvelously synoptic work of cultural history that illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, religion, law, and cinematic representation (to name a few), Bernstein's penetrating study offers unique insights into a case that continues to haunt the American imagination.”
– Thomas Doherty, Author of Hollywood's Censor ($24.95 value without the autograph)
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About the Grand Prize:

Janus Films opened American viewers' eyes to the pleasures of Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, and François Truffaut at the height of their artistic powers. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of this world-renowned distribution company with Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films, an expansive collectors' box set featuring 50 classic films on DVD and a lavishly illustrated hardcover book that tells the story of Janus Films through an essay by film historian Peter Cowie, a tribute from Martin Scorsese, and extensive, all-new notes on all 50 films, plus cast and credit listings and U.S. premiere information. This grand prize will be awarded to 1 of the 15 winners from the fall and winter/spring in each city and the ultimate winner will be determined this summer by luck of the draw. ($650.00 value)

   
Just 4 of the 50 great films.
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