Hello Film Lovers!
Monday night’s movie won the Audience Award at the Brattle’s Fantastic Film Festival a several weeks ago. It’s gotten rave reviews by the few Chlotrudis members who have seen it, and it stars that sexy Tony Leung of HERO and IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE fame. Join us on Monday, November 22, 7:15 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre for INFERNAL AFFAIRS. There won’t be time for dinner before the movie, so grab a bite on the way. Check out the synopsis below:
Infernal Affairs
dir Andrew Lau & Alan Mak w/Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang [100 mins]
After some lean years when many of the most talented directors defected to Hollywood, Hong Kong is experiencing a film renaissance. A new wave of great films is coming from Hong Kong and INFERNAL AFFAIRS is leading the pack. A huge hit at home, this thrilling, complex tale of cops-and-robbers has already spawned a sequel and a prequel and been tapped for a remake by Martin Scorsese (set in Boston no less). It even won the Audience Award at our recent Boston Fantastic Film Festival! The film begins with the police desperately trying to crack down on one particular Triad boss who always seems to slip through their fingers at the last minute. The answer is simple of course, he has an informant in the police force. But, little does the Triad boss know, the police have also planted a mole in his ranks. A terrific cat-and-mouse showdown ensues when the police and the gangsters discover almost simultaneously that they are both being double-crossed. With the formidable Tony Leung and Andy Lau as the undercover cop and gangster respectively, INFERNAL AFFAIRS packs about as many breathless twists and turns as one can take in a 100-minute movie.
We’re back on a documentary groove, and we love it! This week’s Sunday Eye-Opener goes to Scandinavia for a documentary that’s sure to be a scream. You might remember the fun and revealing documentary from 2001 COOL AND CRAZY about The Berlevag Male Choir, the world-traveling Finnish choir. Now comes SCREAMING MEN which takes a look at Finland’s other men’s choir – and this one is cooler AND crazier! Meet the screaming men of the Finnish Screaming Male Choir. They travel from Finland to places around the world dressed in black suits, white shirts, and rubber ties, performing its repertoire by shouting and screaming. Shouting marches, children’s songs, and national anthems – sometimes to the chagrin of the homelands – their articulation mixes with howling to the same strong reaction everywhere: an audience that is left exalted, as well as shocked, amused, and bewildered. Led by the charismatic and very driven conductor Petri Sirvi’he choir started as an idea at a bar table, and over 15 years evolved to the front line of modern European performing arts. Like the choir itself, this delightful documentary walks the thin line between the dead serious and the absurd. “To talk is silver, to shout is golden.”
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, November 19 – 25.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Infernal Affairs
Casablanca (Fri. – Sun.)
Midnite Madness
Shaun of the Dead (Fri. & Sat.)
Sunday Eye-Opener
Screaming Men
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Kinsey
Sideways
Tarnation
Lightning in a Bottle (Sat. & Sun.)
Midnites!
The Ramones: End of the Century (Fri. & Sat.)
Future Animators of the Future (Fri.)
Kung Fu: Return of the Demon (Sat.)
Special Screening (Mon.)
Bright Leaves Director Ross McAlwee in Person!
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Humanist Masterpieces: The Films of Satyajit Ray
The Big City (Fri.)
Charulata aka The Lonely Wife (Fri. & Sat.)
Days and Nights in the Forest (Sat. & Sun.)
The Chess Players (Sun.)
The Stranger (Tue.)
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Beauty and the Beast (Mon.)
Cin’ Fran’s
Demonlover (Mon.)
Film Architectures
Madame Satan (Tue.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
I Heart Huckabees
Being Julia
Birth
Sideways
Vera Drake
The Motorcycle Diaries
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
Sideways
Being Julia
Kinsey
The Motorcycle Diaries
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Untold Scandal
Sideways
The Motorcycle Diaries
What the #$*! Do We Know
Loews Theatres Copley Place, Boston
Kinsey
I Heart Huckabees
Being Julia
The Motorcycle Diaries
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
Harvard Square, Cambridge
The Machinist
I Heart Huckabees
Ray (Not eligible, but co-starring Kerry Washington!)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The 11th Annual Boston Festival of Films and Music from Iran
The Tear of the Cold (Fri. & Sat.)
Beautiful City (Fri.)
Boutique (Sat.)
Tiny Snowflakes and Stop It, I’m Out (Sun.)
Art on Film
Antonio Gaudi (Sat.)
Special Screenings Actress Julie Delphy in Person!
Before Sunrise (Wed.)
Before Sunset (Wed.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
I Heart Huckabees
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President