CinéWilde Presents – THE HOURS

Join CinéWilde for our November screening of the 2002 drama The Hours! Directed by the queer director Stephen Daldry, The Hours explores how the lives of three generations of women are interconnected by the Virginia Woolf novel “Mrs. Dalloway.”

The women are Clarissa Vaughan (played by Meryl Streep), a New Yorker preparing an award party for her AIDS-stricken long-time friend and poet Richard (played by Ed Harris) in 2001; Laura Brown (played by Julianne Moore), a pregnant 1950s California housewife in an unhappy marriage, and the author Virginia Woolf (played by Nicole Kidman) in 1920s England, who is struggling with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel.

Our pre-show programming is inspired by the literary connection The Hours has to Virginia Woolf’s book Mrs. Dalloway. Before the film we’ll have a Q&A with the executive director of The Writer’s Garret Aaron Glover, whose poetry appears in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Illya’s Honey, the Red River Review, Chicon Street Poets, and elsewhere. From 2011-2016, he was on faculty in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University and he holds an MFA from the University of Houston.

The founder and owner of the Oak Cliff bookstore Whose Books Claudia Vega will also speak before the film. Whose Books will have a vendor table set up so come shop their selection! Whose Books offers a thoughtfully curated selection of books for the entire family. They are champions of literacy on a mission to eradicate the book desert in Dallas’ southern sector.

After the show, we’ll be hosting a ‘Queerlastic Book Exchange!’ Audience members who brought a book will be given the mic to speak on why they love their book. Then we’ll exchange books among the group, so bring a book off your bookshelf and walk away with something new to read!

Pre-show Q&A: 8:45

Screening: 9:15

Post-show book exchange: 11:15