Hey there Everyone!
Once again, it’s a cornucopia of new movie possibilties here in the Boston area, making it difficult to select the film for the Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies. I’ve got to admit that I chose this week’s film on the strength of the director’s previous film, THE TASTE OF OTHERS, which was up for a Best Cast Chlotrudis Award back in 2002 for the 8th Annual Awards. LOOK AT ME is the latest film from French director/writer/actress Agn’Jaoui, and it screens at the Kendall Square Cinema at 7:20 p.m. on Monday night. This film won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes last year.
A story of human beings who know exactly what they’d do if they were somebody else, but are struggling to find out who they are. Overweight and lacking in self-esteem, Lolita (Marilou Berry) is angry at the world because her father Etienne (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a famous and celebrated writer, is too busy to notice her. Lolita wants to be a singer, and soon attaches herself to her teacher Sylvia (director/co-writer Agn’Jaoui, The Taste of Others). After learning that Lolita is Etienne’s daughter, Sylvia spends extra time with her and Etienne, hoping she will get access to a better life. (Fully subtitled)
DIRECTOR: Agn’Jaoui
CAST: Marilou Berry, Agn’Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Laurent Gr’ll, Virginie Desarnauts, Keine Bouhiza, Gr’ire Oestermann, Serge Riaboukine, Mich’ Moretti
Fans of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE won’t want to miss the Brattle Wong Kar-Wai retrospective starting tomorrow night. I really want to see DAYS OF BEING WILD, but it doesn’t look like I’m going to be able to squeeze it in. Speaking of Wong Kar-Wai, the Kendall is opening EROS, a triptych of films by directors Kar-Wai, Stephen Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni. I’ve heard mixed things about this film, but the Kar-Wai segment is supposed to be incredible. The Coolidge is premiering a new film that was a hit at last year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival: NINA’S TRAGEDIES. And if you’re free on Friday, try to catch the final meeting of the BU Cinematheque with filmmaker Michael Epstein.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, April 8 – 14.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Wong Kar Wai: A Retrospective
Days of Being Wild (Fri. & Sat.)
As Tears Go By (Sun.)
Ashes of Time (Sun.)
Chungking Express (Mon. & Tue.)
Fallen Angels (Mon. & Tue.)
Happy Together (Wed.)
In the Mood for Love (Thu.)
Special Event: The B.U. Cinematheque Presents: Newly Restored Original Cut!
Heaven’s Gate (Sat. & Sun.)
Harvard Book Store Presents:
Camille Paglia (Tue.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Nina’s Tragedies
Academy Award Nominated Shorts
Millions
Watermarks
Midnite Madness
The Animation Show (Fri. & Sat.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
A Very Long Engagement (ineligible)
Finding Neverland
Bride & Prejudice
Sideways
Closer (ineligible)
FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Sideways
Bad Education
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
An Evening with Todd Solondz
Happiness (Fri.) Director in Person!
Palindromes (Fri.) Director in Person! Sorry – this is SOLD OUT!
Tremors of Forgery: Filming Patricia Highsmith
Ripley’s Game (Sat.)
The American Friend (Sat.)
Purple Noon (Sun.)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Sun.)
Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960-2005
Oasis (Mon.)
Black and White on Screen
Toxi (Mon.)
Fashion on Film
In the Mood for Love (Tue. & Wed.)
Film and Autobiography
Intervista (Tue.)
Alain Resnais
My American Uncle (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Walk on Water
Born into Brothels
Millions
Downfall
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Cast!
Finding Neverland
Paper Clips
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Look at Me
Eros
Dust to Glory
The 48-Hour Film Project (Tue. & Thu.)
Off the Map
Millions
Walk on Water
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Downfall
Born into Brothels
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Melinda and Melinda
Downfall
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Bride & Prejudice
Born into Brothels
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Melinda and Melinda
The Upside of Anger
Schultze Gets the Blues
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Fourth Boston Turkish Film Festival
Hope (Fri.)
Motherland Hotel (Fri.)
The Herd (Sat.)
Innocence (Sat.)
Yol (Sun.)
Distant (Sun.)
Art on Film
Antonio Gaudi (Sat. & Sun.)
Pre-release Screening
Palindromes w/ director Todd Solondz Present
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Off the Map
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Nina’s Tragedies
Look at Me
Lost Embrace
Walk on Water
Hotel Rwanda
The Chorus
Schultze Gets the Blues
Paper Clips
SPECIAL EVENTS
THE BU CINEMATHEQUE RETURNS! APRIL 2005 SCHEDULE
This is the last showing of the semester!
Friday, April 8-AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL EPSTEIN BU College of Communication, 640 Comm. Ave., Room B-05, 7 pm
The New York-based Epstein, an Academy Award nominee, has carved a distinguished career making penetrating documentaries about Hollywood subjects: Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick,, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist. His newest film is his funniest, liveliest, and most eye-opening: Final Cut: the Making and Unmaking of Heaven’s Gate (2004). It’s the wild saga of the 1980 Michael Cimino movie so financially out of control’20 times more expensive than planned!– that it closed down a Hollywood studio. Here’s what really happened on the set, unbelievable if there weren’t eye witnesses.
SEE the behind-the-scenes documentary, SEE the actual film, which is far, far better than its crazy reputation! (The French adore it!)
Heaven’s Gate plays Saturday and Sunday, April 9 and 10, at the Brattle in a newly restored original 35mm cut, all 220 minutes of it. From Michael Cimino, the filmmaker of The Deerhunter, comes this vast, mighty epic of the Old West starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, and Isabelle Huppert.
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President