ACMP is pleased to announce its new Film Club, in which members will get together to explore and discuss films with a focus on chamber music.

The inaugural Film Club event will take place on Saturday, December 9 at 2pm Eastern on Zoom and will feature a discussion about Israeli-American filmmaker Yaron Zilberman’s feature film A Late Quartet (2012).

Make some popcorn and watch the film on your own time before Saturday, December 9 – there are many options, including Amazon Prime Video, Roku, and Apple TV. (If you cannot find a better way to stream it, there is also a low-quality version that someone put up on YouTube with Spanish subtitles.)

Then join ACMP on December 9 at 2pm Eastern as Executive Director Stephanie Griffin moderates a discussion with former Attacca Quartet members Keiko Tokunaga (violin) and Luke Fleming (viola) on their experiences working with actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener. They will also share their perspectives on the story of the film, based on their own lives as Grammy-winning chamber musicians.

Admission: $5 USD

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When making A Late Quartet, Zilberman hired members of the Attacca Quartet to teach violin, viola and cello to the actors so they would look more authentic in all the playing scenes. The film follows the members of a renowned (and fictional) string quartet as they struggle to stay together in the face of all manners of interpersonal drama.

You might be asking yourself how true-to-life this might actually be!

Find out on Saturday, December 9 and enjoy the film!

Meanwhile, please save the date for the next ACMP Film Club event:

Sunday, February 18, 2pm Eastern with filmmaker Hilan Warshaw and former Emerson Quartet violinist Eugene Drucker on Warshaw’s film “Secret Song,” about the little-known secret romance behind Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite.