Hello Film Lovers!
It opened last week, but I haven’t seen a word about it from Chlotrudis members, despite the director’s pedigree, the
intriguing cast, and the rave reviews from critics. It’s SIDEWAYS, and it opens at the Coolidge Corner Theatre this week. Join us on Monday, November 8, when the Coolidge Corner Theatre celebrates Chlotrudis night with discounted admission. The screening starts at 7:30 p.m. I’m excited about it because it co-stars a favorite actress of mine, Sanda Oh (who happens to be married to director Alexander Payne of ELECTION fame. Read the synopsis below:
Sideways
dir. Alexander Payne w/ Paul Giamatti, Thomas Hayden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, 120 min.
Alexander Payne, director of ELECTION and ABOUT SCHMIDT, returns with another sharply wry and witty gem of a film. Miles (Paul Giamatti of AMERICAN SPLENDOR) is a depressed failed novelist and amateur wine enthusiast. His soon-to-be married friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church), is a washed-up actor who still envisions himself a ladies man. During one last bonding experience, a road trip the week before Jack’s wedding, Miles is determined to educate his friend on the region’s beloved Pinot Noirs. But Jack is mainly interested in living his last week of bachelorhood to the hilt. Their voyage encompasses many adventures, including a birthday visit with Miles’ mother, some unpleasant news about Miles’ ex-wife, and wonderfully played-out romances for the two men in the form of smart and seductive wine bar employees Stephanie (Sandra Oh) and Maya (Virginia Madsen).
After a terrific kick-off at both the Museum of Fine Arts and the Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Boston Jewish Film Festival kicks into high gear. All week films will be playing at those two venues in addition to the West Newton Cinema and Hollywood Hits. There are several more films I’d like to catch, particularly PAPER SNOW and Chantal Akerman’s TOMORROW WE MOVE (pictured right). Unfortunately, both films play at the same time so I can’t see both.
Lots of films playing or opening that Chlotrudis members have yet to review. This week, Dylan Kidd (ROGER DODGER) offers up his latest film, P.S. Other new films that have opened recently that I’d love to get reviews of are SAW, BIRTH and BEING JULIA. If you catch any of these films, send a review to cancdis@yahoogroups.com and let us know what you think?
By the way, thanks to everyone who came to the 5th Annual Chlotrudis Short Film Festival! We had a couple of good nights, and our first ever benefit silent auction where we raised over $1100! My goal was $1000, so it’s great to see that we surpassed that. Special thanks to The Coolidge Corner Theatre and the Brattle Theatre, who hosted the festival; Beth Curran, who ran the Silent Auction, Allison DaSilva, always instrumental in getting those hotels to help us out; Georgette Gagne and Emily Neill, Chlotrudis members who donated a handmade quilt and closet consultation services respectively; and all the generous businesses who donated items to the auction. These include The Coolidge Corner Theatre, The Brattle Film Foundation, The Independent Film Festival of Boston, The Provincetown Film Festival, The Boston Jewish Film Fsetival, Landmark Theatres in Kendall Square, The Huntington Theatre, Talking Street, Exhale Spa, The Boston Ballet, Go Boston, Johnny D’s, Jimmy Tingle’s Off-Broadway Theatre, Redbone’s Restaurant, Saco’s Bowl Haven, The Charles Hotel, and The Harding House.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, November 5 – 11.
Boston Jewish Film Festival
Full schedule announced! Tickets on sale now!
Le Grand Role Coolidge Corner Theatre – CCT (Sat.)
Nina’s Tragedies CCT (Sat.)
Amos Vogel & Cinema 16 CCT (Sun.)
The Birthday Party CCT (Sun. & Tue.)
Moving Heaven and Earth CCT (Sun.)
Bar Mitzvah Boy CCT (Sun. & Wed.)
Paper Show CCT (Sun. & Tue.)
Shiva for My Mother: Seven Days of Mourning MFA (Sun.)
Mixed Blessings MFA (Sun.)
Bonjour, Monsieur Shlomi MFA (Sun. & Thu.)
Tomorrow We Move MFA (Sun.)
Don’t Call it Heimweh CCT (Mon.)
A Jewish Wedding CCT (Mon.)
Shiva for my Mother: Seven Days of Mourning, Moving Heaven and Earth, My Sister, My Bride: The Gay Marriage Thing CCT (Mon.)
All I’ve Got MFA (Tue. & Thu.)
Red Diaper Baby MFA (Tue.)
BJFF Meets Balagan CCT (Tue.)
Another Road Home CCT (Tue. & Wed.)
Mixed Blessings CCT (Tue.)
Recuerdos CCT (Wed. & Thu.)
Joshua Nelson & His Jubilee Chorus CCT (Wed.)
Behind Enemy Lines CCT (Thu.)
Channel of Rage CCT (Thu.)
Finding El’ar MFA (Thu.)
Resist MFA (Thu.)
No. 17 MFA (Thu.)
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Cries & Whispers: the Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
Fanny & Alexander (Fri. – Sun.)
Cries & Whispers (Mon. & Tue.)
Autumn Sonata (Mon. & Tue.)
The Magician (Wed.)
Midnite Madness
Ju-On: the Grudge (Fri. & Sat.)
The Alliance for Community Media Presents
New England Regional Video Festival Awards 2004 (Sat.)
Harvard Bookstore Presents Richard Dawkins (Wed.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Sideways
The Motorcycle Diaries
Lightning in a Bottle
Boston Jewish Film Festival
See schedule above
Midnites!
Grand Opening! presents
HOT & BOTHERED: Our Favorite Sex Scenes (Fri.)
Donnie Darko: the Director’s Cut (Sat.)
Mismatched Couples (Sat.) Kung fu meets Breakdancing!
Gerald Peary’s BU Cinematheque Room B-05, 640 Comm. Ave.
Filmmakers discuss their films in an intimate setting… for FREE!
An Evening With Sara Driver (Fri.)
Driver will show When Pigs Fly, starring Spider Man 2’s villain, Alfred Molina, as a jazz musician haunted by female ghosts, including Marianne Faithful. Music by the Clash’s Joe Strummer, and lush cinematography by the great Robby Muller.
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Humanist Masterpieces: The Films of Satyajit Ray
Devi (Fri.)
The Postmaster (Fri. & Sat.)
Ray: Life And Work Of Satyajit Ray (Sat.)
Pather Panchali (Wed.)
Adventures in Surrealism
L’age d’or (Sun.)
Maya Deren Shorts (Tue.)
An Evening with Gina Kim
Invisible Light Director in Person! (Sun.)
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Batman (Mon.)
Cin’ Fran’s
Irma Vep (Mon.)
The Moving Image and Visual Representation
Toute une Nuit (Tue. & Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
P.S.
Birth
Stage Beauty
Vera Drake
The Motorcycle Diaries
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Enduring Love
Sideways
Dr. Strangeloev: or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Undertow
P.S.
Being Julia
Stage Beauty
Tarnation
The Motorcycle Diaries
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Enduring Love
Sideways
Saw
The Motorcycle Diaries
What the #$*! Do We Know
Loews Theatres Copley Place, Boston
Undertow
Undertow
Being Julia
Enduring Love
Fade to Black
P.S.
Spin
Vera Drake
The Motorcycle Diaries
Vera Drake
Garden State
What the #$*! Do We Know
Napoleon Dynamite
Harvard Square, Cambridge
The Machinist
I Heart Huckabees
Vera Drake
Team America: World Police
Ray (Not eligible, but co-starring Kerry Washington!)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art on Film
Antonio Gaudi (Sat.)
Boston Latino International Film Festival
Fausto 5.0 (Sat.)
Without a Trace (Sat.)
Los Angeles Now (Sat.)
New England Film Artists Present
Inside Out (Wed.)
Environmental Films from the Asian Diaspora
Daughter from Yan’an (Wed.)
16th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival
See Schedule Above
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
A Dirty Shame
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President