Hey there Everyone!
We’re just over a week before the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony, and madly preparing for our gala event. Unfortuantely, we will not have time to schedule a Monday Night at the Movies this week. That doesn’t mean you should skip the movies this week! Lots of terrific new films are opening in Boston area theatres this week. There’s the powerful German love story, HEAD-ON at the Coolidge; GUNNER PALACE, DOWNFALL, and MASCULINE FEMININE at the Kendall, and the long-time coming DEAR FRANKIE at the Harvard Square Theatre. The Brattle will be running a 25th Anniversary special of RAGING BULL all week, and Monday night features the second of Coolidge Award recipient Vittorio Storaro-lensed THE CONFORMIST.
The real excitement is coming NEXT weekend, with the Chlotrudis Society of Independent Film’s WILBY Weekend and 11th Annual Awards Ceremony! The weekend kicks off on Friday and Saturday when Chlotrudis and the Brattle Film Foundation co-present WILBY WONDERFUL, directed by 2004’s Chlotrudis “Body of Work” Award winner, Daniel MacIvor, and starring a cornucopia of Canadian film talent: Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, Jim Allodie, Jim Allodi, Rebecca Jenkins, Paul Gross, and the lovely Ellen Page (pictured left) who will be on hand for the evening screenings to say hello and answer a few questions. The weekend is capped off with the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awarsds Ceremony, where the winners of this year’s Chlotrudis Awards will be announced! Ellen Page will be on hand to collect the Breakthrough Award, won last year by the fabulous Kerry Washington. Other guests include French writer/director/actor Lucas Belvaux, whose films ON THE RUN, AN AMAZING COUPLE, and AFTER THE LIFE, collectively called THE TRILOGY are nominated in four categories. Belvaux is this year’s recipient of the Chlotrudis “Body of Work” Award for his achievement in front of and behind the camera. Rounding out this year’s guest list is John O’Brien, the talented young director whose recent film NOSEY PARKER is nominated in the Buried Treasure Category. John will be on hand to accept the Chlotrudis “Maverick” Award. Tickets are on sale now for all of the exciting Wilby Weekend events at the Brattle Theatre. Chlotrudis members can reserve tickets for the Awards Ceremony by contacting me at colford@chlotrudis.org. The special, members-only after party at Noir is sponsored by the Canadian Consulate of Boston. Thanks also to Noir, The Charles Hotel, and The French Consulate of Boston.
Keep your eyes peeled on the front page of this website (http://www.chlotrudis.org) for more updates on the guest list for WILBY weekend and the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards. While we may not be able to top last year’s extravaganza with star power, you won’t be disappointed!
Join us this Sunday, March 13 for the Sunday Eye Opener, 11:00 a.m. at the Brattle Theatre. This week’s screening features the lovely documentary, SUNSET STORY. Lucille Alpert and Irja Lloyd are the main subjects of SUNSET STORY, a wonderful documentary by Laura Gabbert that may make you laugh and cry ‘ and may change your mind about age and aging. You probably won’t find two more fascinating camera subjects, two livelier conversationalists or two richer, more rewarding, more engaging and inspiring companions in any movie, fiction or non-fiction, this year. SUNSET STORY has been shot with minimal resources but with maximum heart and soul. It’s a film ‘ and a pair of people ‘ you won’t soon forget.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, March 11 – 17.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
25th Anniversary Screening!
Raging Bull (Fri. – Thu.)
Harvard Book Store Reading
Marilynne Robinson (Wed.)
Sunday Eye-Opener
Sunset Story
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Head-On
Million Dollar Baby
Watermarks
Midnite Madness
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (Fri. & Sat.)
The Nomi Song (Fri. & Sat.)
Coolidge Award retrospective of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
The Conformist (Mon.)
Bostn Jewish Film Festival Presents
Turn Left at the End of the World (Tue.)
Coolidge Award Seminar
CINEMA ITALIANO: An Overview of Italian Cinema with Professor Piero Garofalo (Wed.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
A Very Long Engagement
Finding Neverland
Bride & Prejudice
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)
FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
A Very Long Engagement
Finding Neverland (Fri., Mon. – Wed.)
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)
Bombay Cinema Presents
Black (Fri. – Sun.)
Bewafaa (Fri. – Sun.)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Film and Autobiography
The Milk of Human Kindness Director in Person! (Fri.)
Gina Kim’s Video Diary (Tue.)
New Documentaries on the War on Terror
Texas-Kabul (Fri.)
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror Directors in Person! (Sat.)
War Takes co-presented with the Boston Latino International Film Festival! (Sat.)
Being Osama Director in Person! and Persons of Interest (Sun.)
Soundtrack to War Director in Person! (Sun.)
Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960-2005
Chilsu and Mansu (Mon.)
Black and White On Screen
Native Son (Tue.)
Fashion and Film
Friday Night Best Cinematography 10th Annual Chlotrudis Award Winner (Tue.)
Frames of Mind
L’Invitation au Voyage and Meshes of the Afternoon Free! (Wed.)
Get Your Man Free! (Wed.)
Philosophy and Film: Deleuze
An Autumn Afternoon (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Bride & Prejudice
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Cast!
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Gunner Palace
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Nobody Knows
Masculine Feminine
Downfall
Born into Brothels
Bad Education Nominated for Best Actor and Best Movie Chlotrudis Awards!
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay!
Hotel Rwanda
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Bride & Prejudice
The Jacket
Born into Brothels
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Supporting Actress!
The Sea Inside
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Dear Frankie
Schultze Gets the Blues
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Algerian Cinema
Daughter of Keltoum (Fri.)
Rachida (Thu.)
Maurice Pialat Retrospective
‘Nos Amours (Fri.)
The House in the Woods Part 1
Van Gogh (Sun. & Thu.)
Under Satan’s Sun (Wed.)
Argentinian Cinema
Lili’s Apron (Sat. & Thu.)
Today and Tomorrow (Thu.)
Cinema Tropical
Loco Fever (Sat.)
Uruguayan Cinema
Whisky (Sun.)
Bosnian/Herzegovinan Cinema
Fuse (Wed.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Hotel Rwanda
The Chorus
Finding Neverland
Kinsey Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Chlotrudis Award!
Paper Clips
Being Julia
Vera Drake Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Actress!
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Paper Clips
UPCOMING EVENTS!
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March 6 ‘ 24, Copresented with, and at, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston WHISKY, by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll (Uruguay/Argentinia/Germany/Spain, 2004, 94 min., Spanish with English
subtitles)
Sunday, March 13, 3:45pm Thursday, March 24, 6:00pm
A multiple prize-winner at Cannes, this droll tale from Uruguay concerns Jacobo, the graying Jewish owner of a Montevideo sock factory, and his manager Marta, who have barely communicated with each other in their daily routine over the years. After a twenty-year absence, Jacobo’s younger brother Herman announces that he is returning to Montevideo to attend the unveiling of their mother’s headstone (a Jewish tradition observed one year after a funeral). Anticipating this visit, Jacobo asks Marta to “help out at home” and pose as his spouse.
Preceded by the short film AS FOLLOWS, by Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj, the irreverent story of a boy’s Bar Mitzvah and the religious rituals and family traditions it entails.
Tickets: $9 general admission; $8 seniors, students, members of the MFA and Boston Jewish Film Festival. To purchase tickets in advance with a credit card, call 617.369.3306 or visit www.mfa.org/film. No phone orders for same-day screenings.
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Tuesday, March 15, 7pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD with director Avi Nesher in person'(Israel/France, 2004, 110 minutes, English/Hebrew/French with English subtitles),
Charming, sexy, and comical, TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD takes us back to 1969, when two Jewish immigrant families – one Indian, the other Moroccan – become unlikely neighbors in the middle of the Israeli desert. Each asserting its own identity, the families become involved in a culture war that touches on everything from laundry soap to cricket. Meanwhile, each family’s teenage daughter negotiates the landscape of the sexual revolution – as do older family members, who try to be discreet about their actions. In the process, Sara (Liraz Charhi) and Nicole (Garti Netta) break through their families’
resentments to forge a bond of friendship.’Presented with generous support from the Consulate General of Israel to New England.
Tickets: $15 general admission; $12 for seniors, students, members of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation and Boston Jewish Film Festival.’To purchase tickets in advance with a credit card, visit http://www.coolidge.org and select Events
This screening of TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD is generously supported by the Consulate General of Israel to New England.
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President