By Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film Critic The American Film Institute is looking somewhere over the rainbow to put a little hope in our new daily routines in this age of the coronavirus.
On Tuesday, AFI unveiled the launch of AFI Movie Club, designed to be “a daily virtual gathering to leverage our collective love of film on behalf of optimism in this time of global uncertainty.” Steven Spielberg, an AFI Trustee and 1995 recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, introduced the first movie chosen — 1939’s immortal Oscar-winning classic The Wizard of Oz — with a video (see it below) in which he is standing in front of a stunning French poster of another classic, Doctor Zhivago.
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