Hello Film Lovers!
It’s back to the Coolidge Corner Theatre for another Monday Night at the Movies (which is great, because Monday is Chlotrudis night at the Coolidge… show your Chlotrudis membership card and receive a discount on your ticket.) Join us on Columbus Day, October 11, for David O. Russell’s I HEART HUCKABEES! The screening begins at 7:30 and with the holiday, I’m sure we’ll have time to meet beforehand for dinner. Stay tuned for more logistics, but in the meantime, check out the synopsis below.
I HEART HUCKABEES
dir. David O Russell w/Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Isabelle Huppert, Naomi Watts, 1h46m
From David O. Russell, director of THREE KINGS and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, comes this sublime, outlandish, and wonderfully thoughtful, high-spirited farce. Earnest environmental activist Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences the meaning of which escapes him. With the help of two Existential Detectives (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life, his relationships, and his conflict with Brad Stand (Jude Law), an executive climbing the corporate ladder at the popular super-store Huckabees. But before Albert can solve his existential dilemma, he is set upon by Tommy (Mark Wahlberg), a client of the detectives whose dissatisfaction with their feel-good method has led him to dabble in the theories of a sultry French nihilist (Isabelle Huppert). To put it lightly, this mixing of influences causes all hell to break loose in Albert’s personal and professional life – but may also lead the way to enlightenment. And it is certainly one hilarious trip.
Despite appearances, the Sunday Eye Opener doesn’t usually have three documentaries in a row! As Ivy says, it must be an indication of the times for indie film. This week’s Eye Opener film is the much anticipated TARNATION. Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette documents his life starting when he is 11-years-old. In TARNATION, he weaves a psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots, Super-8 home movies, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family torn apart by dysfunction and reunited through the power of love.
The Sunday Eye Opener is a 10-week film/discussion series that features yet-to-be-released films in a casual, open format. Each week instructor Ivy Moylan will preface the film with some background on filmmaking, and follow up with a discussion of the film and the way it uses film conventions. Admission for the entire 10-week series is $50 for the general public, $25 for members of the Brattle or Chlotrudis, and a mere $10 for those who are members of both organizations.
Attention all you Pedro Almodovar fans out there, and I know there are a few of you! The Real Colegio Complutense and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in cooperation with the Harvard Film Archive and the Consulate of Spain present The Pleasure of Cinema: a Conversation with Pedro Almodovar! Spanish film director Pedro Almod’, celebrated for his brilliant plays with melodrama, camp, kitsch and for his self-conscious and politically inflected control of cinematic form, will be speaking at Harvard University on Tuesday, October 12 at 6 p.m. at the Science Center, Lecture Hall B. The event, titled “The Pleasure of the Cinema: A Conversation with Pedro Almod’,” is free and open to the public. The director will give an overview of his work, with special reference to his cinematic and cultural models and to questions of aesthetics and politics. He will then take questions from the audience. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity!
And there are many more exciting events coming up in the next month. Slide down to the bottom of this page for a small sampling! Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t start touting the Chlotrudis 5th Annual Short Film Festival, this year expanding across the river to the Brattle Theatre! Two nights of short films, November 1 at the Coolidge (then take the next day off to vote) then November 2 at the Brattle. More to come very soon!
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, October 8 – 14.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Exclusive Area Premiere!
Rick (Fri. – Sun.)
Midnights!
Gozu (Fri. & Sat.)
The Equinox Music Festival presents
Be-Bop at the Brattle (Sat.)
Sunday Eye Opener
Tarnation(Sun.)
Film Noir 101
Crack-Up (Mon.)
The Killers (Tue.)
Out of the Past (Wed.)
2nd Annual Fantastic Film Festival! (Thu.)
Opening Night Film! American Premiere!
Five Children and It (Thu.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
I Heart Huckabees
The Motorcycle Diaries
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
Midnites!
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut (Fri. & Sat.)
Gypsy 83
Kung Fu!
Thrilling Blood Sword (Sat.)
New England Film & Video Festival
Presented by the Boston Educational Film and Video Foundation
see their website for the schedule
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Haunted Visions: the Films of F.W. Murnau
Fuast (Fri.) w/ live pianist and soprano!
Murnau’s Five Fausts (Fri.) w/ live pianist and soprano!
The Last Laugh (Sat. & Sun.) w/ live pianist!
Nosferatu (Sat. & Sun.) w/ live pianist!
Tabu (Mon. & Wed.)
Sunrise (Mon. & Wed.) #100 on the Chlotrudis 200 for 2000!
Film Architectures
High Treason (Tue.)
Direct Democracy: The Presidential Election on Screen
Primary (Thu.)
Chisholm ’72 ‘ Unbought & Unbossed (Thu.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Gloomy Sunday
The Motorcycle Diaries
Hero
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Incident at Loch Ness
The Motorcycle Diaries
Red Lights
Shaun of the Dead
A Dirty Shame
Garden State
Maria Full of Grace
Napoleon Dynamite
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
The Motorcycle Diaries
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
What the #$*! Do We Know
A Dirty Shame
The Last Shot
Garden State
Before Sunset
Loews Theatres Copley Place, Boston
Red Lights
Hero
Going Upriver: the Long War of John Kerry
Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
Bright Young Things
The Yes Men
What the #$*! Do We Know
Vanity Fair
Napoleon Dynamite
Harvard Square, Cambridge
I Heart Huckabees
Going Upriver: the Long War of John Kerry
The Yes Men
Hero
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Films of F.W. Murnau
Tabu (Fri.)
Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Fri. & Sun) #100 on the Chlotrudis 200 for 2000!
Phantom (Sat.)
Faust (Sun.)
Russian Cinema: A Tribute to Lenfilm Studios
Letters from a Dead Man (Sat. & Thu.)
Art on Film
Russian Ark (Sun. & Thu.)
New England Film Artists Present
Smoke and Mirrors: a Geisha Story (Sun.)
The Political Dr. Seuss (Thu.)
A Bruce Weber Film
A Letter to True (Wed. & Thu.)
World’s Best TV Ads
British Advertising Films of 2003 (Wed. & Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Intimate Strangers (ends Fri.)
Maria Full of Grace (starts Sat.)
Coming Soon!
Staring next week!
2nd Annual Fantastic Film Festival!
October 14 – 19
Chlotrudis 5th Annual Short Film Festival!
at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Nov. 1 & The Brattle Theatre, Nov. 2
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.
Boston Jewish Film Festival
Full schedule announced! Tickets on sale now!
November 3 – 14
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President