With its bi-monthly members-only Film Appreciation Night Series, the Bosque Film Society presents Sydney Pollack’s epic romantic drama “Out Of Africa” Oct. 18 at The Cliftex in Clifton

By BRETT VOSS

Bosque Film Society Founding Board President

Following our month board meeting Tuesday, October 18 at 5:30 p.m., the Bosque Film Society cordially invites all members to attend its members-only FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT featuring Sydney Pollack’s 1985 American epic romantic drama OUT OF AFRICA at 6:30 p.m. at The Cliftex Theatre in Clifton with an introductory presentation by Bosque Film Society founding board member Simone Voss.

Loosely based on the 1937 autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), with additional material from Dinesen’s 1960 book Shadows on the Grass and other sources, the film is directed and produced by Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Klaus Maria Brandauer.

A commercial success and winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four and called it “one of the great recent epic romances,” adding, “What we have here is an old-fashioned, intelligent, thoughtful love story, told with enough care and attention that we really get involved in the passions among the characters.”

The FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT SERIES represents one of the two film series the Bosque Film Society offers its members every month, presenting free classic movies beautifully restored history Cliftex Theatre.

Upcoming ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT presentations will include:

Nov. 8 – Day for Night (1973) presented by Bosque Film Society founding board president Brett Voss

Upcoming FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT presentations will include:

Dec. 13 — Christmas Party: White Christmas (1954) presented by Bosque Film Society founding board member and historian Bryan Davis

Since this will be a private showing, BYOB will be allowed, and the theatre concession stand will be open for purchases. Although the event will be closed to the public, those wishing to become Bosque Film Society members Tuesday night will be admitted.

For more information about joining the Bosque Film Society’s non-profit efforts to support The Cliftex Theatre, the longest continuously-operating movie house in Texas, showing films since 1916, visit our website at: www.bosquefilm.com.