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Icarus

Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 8:00pm

Casket Cinema pedals into April with the Oscar winning documentary, “Icarus”. On April 1st at 8pm we will virtually discuss the film.

Icarus, follows the director, Bryan Fogel, as he decides to dope himself to find out if he can become a faster, stronger cyclist. This decision leads him to Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, a Russian doctor, and from there the movie blows up into one of the crazier and life is stranger than fiction films made in the last decade.

Icarus is a 2017 American documentary film by Bryan Fogel, which chronicles Fogel's exploration of the option of doping to win an amateur cycling race and happening upon a major international doping scandal when he asks for the help of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017, and was awarded the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award (Orwell Award). Netflix acquired the distribution rights[5] and released Icarus globally on August 4, 2017. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Because of the pandemic, this will be a virtual screening. Pre-watch the film on the Netflix platform beforehand, we discuss the film together in an online virtual screening.   

RSVP

Use the link below to RSVP and get the meeting info for our Google Meetings discussion call!

Discussion RSVP

Special Guest

The special guests are members of Team Road Kill and others TBA, they will discuss the film with Casket Cinema co-founder Wilbur Ince and Mark Wojahn.  

Watch the Film on NetFlix

This movie is provided by NetFlix, so you'll need to watch it on their platform.  

A basic plan is $8.99 per month and you can cancel at anytime.    

Do Good in the World - Little Bellas

Over the past season we have operated Casket Cinema as a Zero-Sum game.  To foster good in the world, we encourage you - our audience - to make a donation to a worthy cause as part of our participation. 

This month our featured cause is the Little Bella's Project, which we have featured at past events. 
https://littlebellas.com/

Little Bellas creates opportunities for girls to experience success using mountain biking as the platform and pathway to personal growth, building community, and competency.

Visit their website online and make a donation.  This is totally voluntary, and any gift makes a difference. 

Thank you for considering this. 


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