Haven't been to an Ag Society Potluck? - you've missed good eatin. Bring a "dish for six others" and join us for a dinner and movie at the Ag Hall on March 28.

Additional information can be found on the film society web site (including links to short trailers) at www.mvfilmsociety.com

Have an awesome week!

--Richard

Saturday, March 28, at 8:00 p.m.
End of Suburbia

Co-Sponsored by the Agricultural Society - Join us for a Potluck at the Ag Hall in West Tisbury prior to movie, all members and supporters welcome, "bring a dish for 6" has been our longtime motto

"We're literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up"
--- James Howard Kunstler

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.

The film seems aimed at baby boomers, but younger people, our children, also need to understand the implications of an energy-depleted future.

USA * Documentary * 80 mins. * Not-Rated

Saturday, April 4, at 7:30 pm
Waiting for Hockney

A young working class Baltimore man spends 10 years on a single portrait, believing it is his means to fame and fortune. But he also believes that only one man can lead him there---the famous artist David Hockney. What happens when you finally meet the god of your own making?

WAITING FOR HOCKNEY is a comic and poignant tale of a man and the people who believe in him as they collude and collide for an entire decade in the service of a grand idea. The film explores the sometimes precarious line between dreams and delusion as it looks at the risks, payoffs and consequences when one man single-mindedly pursues his vision. Billy Pappas is a true American original. An art school graduate from a working class background living in rural Maryland, Billy has decided that his mission in life is to reinvent realism. He spends eight years on a single drawing of Marilyn Monroe working to show a microscopic level of detail he hopes will reveal something deeper than photography. Literally, he hopes to create a new art form. Aided, one might even say enabled, by an eccentric cast of characters including a clergyman, a professor and an architect calling himself "Dr. Lifestyle," Billy finally completes the portrait and then begins a quest to show it to renowned contemporary artist David Hockney, the one person he thinks can validate everything for which Billy has been striving.