Join, Fred White, our IAH resident film expert and critic to discuss Fargo. Raised in suburban Minneapolis themselves, the Coen Brothers go after "Minnesota nice," among other local follies, in one of their best and most celebrated movies, Fargo (1996). Nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Fargo won three, including Frances McDormand's first for Best Actress for her role as the immortal female cop, Marge Gunderson. Fargo is both sublimely ludicrous and sad in its exploration of human lostness and sheer boredom. A lot to laugh at, and a lot to think about. Join us for what promises to be a lively and memorable discussion.

7-7:30pm social; Discussion to follow

About Fred White and his passion for movies: “I've been a movie buff since I was eight or so and used to ride my bike to our neighborhood theater in Atlanta on Saturday, staying there from noon to 6PM, to watch a double feature, with a news reel, a couple of weekly "serials," and some other "shorts." As an adult, I was lucky enough to be able to teach film, as well as literature, for forty years in Baltimore at Goucher College. For example, for years I taught a course on the films of Stanley Kubrick and their literary sources. I team-taught an interdisciplinary honors course with a Japanese history professor called "Japan in Film," a survey of Japanese history from the 1930s to the 1990s using nothing but Japanese films as texts. And when I taught composition classes, I had the students view, discuss, and write about the films of the Coen Brothers.