Hello Film Lovers!
Many Chlotrudis members have already seen the film chosen for next week’s Monday Night Movie of the Week, but it is so great, and is very likely going to be in the running for Best Documentary of the Year, I need to encourage still more people to see it. That film is DIG!, playing at the Kendall Square Theatre, 7:20 p.m. You don’t have to be a fan of either of the bands in question to enjoy this finely made film. Do yourself a favor and catch it during it’s one week run at the Kendall.
Shot over seven years, DIG! chronicles the rivalry of musicians Anton Newcombe, leader of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, head of The Dandy Warhols. From the moment they met, the two bands quickly bonded over a desire to not conform to the tastes of the recording industry. Yet their choices over how to express their creativity and originality in a profit-driven industry eventually put them at irreconcilable odds. Writer/director Ondi Timoner’s film reveals both musicians’ loves and obsessions, gigs and recordings, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers’as they unfold with the passage of time.
Directed by Ondi Timoner
I’m sending this message to you from the New York Library Association Conference in Rochester, NY (yes, I had dinner with Marilyn last night!) so it’s going to be very brief, and the website won’t be updated with images until I return on Saturday. However, do make plans to come to the Sunday Eye Opener this week, as the Brattle presents a sneak preview of Tsai Ming-Liang’s GOOD BYE DRAGON INN. Many of you know how much I admire this filmmaker (whose last film was the sublime WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?) Don’t miss it!
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, October 22 – 28.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Tribute to Elmer Bernstein
Sudden Fear (Fri.)
Sweet Smell of Success and Walk on the Wild Side (Sat.)
Films by Charles and Ray Eames (Sun.)
Far From Heaven (Sun.)
An American Werewolf in London (Mon.)
Cape Fear and Devil in a Blue Dress (Tue.)
Magnificent Seven
Midnite Madness
Animal House
Sunday Eye Opener
Good Bye Dragon Inn (Sun.)
Boston Irish Film Festival – Closing Night Presentation!
BIFF 2004 EXCELLENCE AWARD CEREMONY
Gabriel Byrne in Person, Hosted by Brian O’Donovan (Mon.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
I Heart Huckabees
The Motorcycle Diaries
Films to See Before You Vote
Hijacking Catastrophe(Fri. – Sun.)
Weapons of Mass Deception (Fri. – Sun.)
Brothers in Arms (Fri. – Sun.)
Orwell Rolls in His Grave (Fri. – Sun.)
Bush’s Brain (Mon.)
Preventive Warriors (Tue.)
Let’s Get Frank with Barney Frank in person! (Tue.)
Liberty Bound
Horns and Halos (Thu.)
Balagan Bushwhacked (Thu.)
Midnites!
Buffy Sing-Along Party with Queer Soup (Fri.)
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut (Fri.)
Punk Rock Holocaust (Sat.)
Kung Fu!
Mr. Vampire 4 (Sat.)
Duplex Planet 25th Anniversary Celebration
Legibly Speaking (Mon.)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Boston Irish Film Festival
Rat and The Devil You Know (Fri.)
Unexpected Openings: North Ireland’s Prisoners & Walled City Stories (Sat.)
May the Road Rise Up (Sat.)
Some Other Place (Sat.)
Beyond the Pale (Sat.)
Dear Boy: The Story of Michael MacLiammoir and Return to Glennascaul (Sun.)
The Book that Wrote Itself (Sun.)
Nora
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Tootsie (Mon.)
Cin’ Fran’s
The Rules of the Game (Mon.)
Film Architectures
La Notte (Tue.)
Selected Films of Roy Andersson
Giliap (Tue.)
The Moving Image and Visual Representation
L’Avventura (Wed.)
Adventures in Surrealism
L’etoile de mer (Wed.)
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Wed.)
Entr’acte (Wed.)
Un Chien Andalou (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Motorcycle Diaries
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
Cellular
Gloomy Sunday
Shaun of the Dead
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Dig!
Primer
Being Julia
Stage Beauty
Tarnation
The Motorcycle Diaries
A Dirty Shame
Garden State
Maria Full of Grace
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Primer
The Motorcycle Diaries
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
What the #$*! Do We Know
A Dirty Shame
Garden State
Before Sunset
Loews Theatres Copley Place, Boston
Celsius 41.11
Th’se: The Story of Saint Th’se of Lisieux
Vera Drake
Hero
Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
Garden State
Bright Young Things
What the #$*! Do We Know
Harvard Square, Cambridge
Vera Drake
Team America: World Police
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston Greek Film Festival
Oxygen (Fri.)
Kalabush (Fri.)
A Song is Not Enough (Sat.)
New England Film Artists Present
Smoke and Mirrors: a Geisha Story (Sat.)
Cambodian History
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Sat., Sun. & Thu.)
World’s Best TV Ads
British Advertising Films of 2003 (Sat. & Thu.)
Art on Film
Russian Ark (Sun.)
Back by Popular Demand
Since Otar Left (Thu.)
Pre-Halloween Fright
Eerie Stories (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
What the #$*! Do We Know (ends Fri.)
The Motorcycle Diaries (starts Sat.)
Coming Soon!
Chlotrudis 5th Annual Short Film Festival!
at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Nov. 1, 7 p.m. & The Brattle Theatre, Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m.
Gerald Peary’s BU Cinematheque
Filmmakers discuss their films in an intimate setting… for FREE!
An Evening with Tsai Ming-Liang! Room B-05, 640 Comm. Ave.
Rebels of a Neon God Thursday, October 21, 7 p.m. Hear Tsai Ming-Liang in an intimate setting!
Boston Jewish Film Festival
Full schedule announced! Tickets on sale now!
November 3 – 14
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President