2018 Summer Family Film Festival Finale

School starts tomorrow.  That's 5th grade for Nina and Pablo and 7th grade for Emilio and new schools for all. Tonight, we finished screening the 8th and final film in our 2018 Summer Family Film Festival. I curated, with help from Mari.

Karate Kid (1984). June.
The Sting (1973). June.
The Adventures of Tintin (2011). June or July.
Rear Window (1954) July 1.
1776 (1972) July 22.
The Cowboys (1972) July 30.
High Noon (1952.). August 5.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017). August 13.

We saw all of these, except for the last, from beginning to end on the big screen upstairs, sitting on the couch together.  Tonight, I asked the kids what their favorite was, and they all answered unhesitatingly: Rear Window.  Emi didn't think he could consider Murder on the Orient Express, since he and I saw it first in the cinema last winter, but he thought he might throw his vote that way, if he could.

Film festivals of previous summers have included: Spartacus, Ben-Hur, North by Northwest, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E. T., Raiders of the Lost Ark (and its several sequels), The Man Who Knew Too Much, City Lights, The Great Dictator, Modern Times, and Mutiny on the Bounty. All were successes, except for Mutiny (1935), which produced a mutiny on our own Bounty. The kids are not fans of Captain Bligh.

We have second graders

Pablo may look too cool for school in this photo, but he and Nina were both very excited/nervous about the year ahead.