Hey there Everyone!
This week’s Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies comes to us from Argentina. Lucrecia Martel’s follow-up to the masterful yet little seen LA CI’AGA deals with adolescent sexuality and religion. THE HOLY GIRL was a hit at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and we will be heading to the Kendall Square Cinema on Monday night for the 7:10 p.m. screening. It was a difficult decision, with several good contenders, but this one is only around for a week, and I don’t want to miss it.
Director/co-writer Lucrecia Martel (La Ci’ga) explores the burgeoning sexuality and religious fervor of two teenage girls in Argentina: Amalia (Mar’Alch’and her best friend Josefina (Julieta Zylberberg). The girls and their families intersect with a group of visiting doctors staying at the run-down hotel operated by Amalia’s family. Amalia finds herself drawn to a married doctor (Carlos Belloso) who makes sexual advances towards her, and she later decides to save him from sin. The respected doctor finds his world on the brink of collapse when her adolescent obsession sets off a chain reaction of social catastrophe. (Fully subtitled)
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Cast: Mercedes Mor’ Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Mar’Alche, Julieta Zylberberg, M’Maestro, Marta Lubos, Arturo Goetz, Alejo Mango, M’a Villa, Rodolfo Cejas
Another foreign film getting good reviews plays at the Brattle Theatre this week. Take time to catch the French film KINGS AND QUEEN playing all week. The film premiered locally at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Another big opener this week is at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Don’t miss MAD HOT BALLROOM! Part STRICTLY BALLROOM, part SPELLBOUND, MAD HOT BALLROOM follows several elementary classes in New York City working to enter a ballroom dancing competition. The trailer alone is enough to win an award! Speaking of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, fans of the short-lived cult show Freaks and Geeks will want to attend one of the midnite screenings scheduled for this weekend. Cast member Samm Levine will be in attendance! Fans of British gangster films a la SNATCH won’t want to miss LAYER CAKE which opens at the Kendall and Embassy this week.
Make your plans now for the Provincetown International Film Festival, which runs June 15 – 19, 2005. Even though we’re already planning the Toronto International Film Festival excursion (in September) you may want to spare a few thoughts for PIFF. A few Chlotrudis members are planning to attend already, and the more the merrier! PIFF is a very relaxing and fun festival, with lots of parties and a gorgeous setting. Check out the website for more details. The films will be announced on May 23.
And if you’re interested in the aforementioned Toronto International Film Festival, make sure you contact me ASAP. We will start booking our rooms this week.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, May 20 – 26.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Area Theatrical Premiere
Kings & Queen
Special Screening! Filmmaker In Attendence!
Mujaan (Sat.)
Harvard Bookstore Presents
Victor Nevasky (Mon.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Mad Hot Ballroom
Double Dare
Midnite Madness
Freaks & Geeks Pajama Party — Cast member Samm Levine in Person! (Fri. & Sat.)
Inside Deep Throat
Film Appreciation Seminar: Box Office Flops
Payday (Wed.)
Grub Street Screenwriters (Thu.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
Born into Brothels
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Millions
FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Off-Road to Athens (Fri.)
Born into Brothels
Melinda and Melinda (Sat. – Thu.)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
All Together Now: The Cinematerpsichorean World Of Busby Berkeley
42nd Street (Fri. & Sun.)
Footlight Parade (Fri. & Sun.)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Sat. & Mon.)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (Sat. & Mon.)
Dames (Tue.)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (Tue.)
Roman Scandals (Wed.)
Palmy Days (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
Look at Me
Kung Fu Hustle (ineligible)
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Layer Cake
Fear and Trembling
The Holy Girl
The Other Side of the Street/i>
Turtles Can Fly
Kung Fu Hustle (ineligible)
Look at Me
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
Torremolinos 73
Winter Solstice
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
Layer Cake
3-Iron
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Born into Brothels
Kung Fu Hustle (ineligible)
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
Crash (ineligible)
It’s All Gone Pete Tong
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The 21st Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
Women’s Short Films (Fri.)
The “D” Word (Fri.)
Making Grace (Sat.)
Butterfly (Sat.)
Do I Love You? (Sun.)
Noah’s Arc (Sun.)
Cinema Vino
Mondovino (Sat. & Sun.)
Tribute to Ricky Leacock
A Musical Adventure in Siberia (Wed.)
Kira Muratova Retrospective
Brief Encounters (Wed.)
Long Farewells (Thu.)
Art on Film
Buddhist Cinema
Travelers & Magicians
Cinema Tropical
Beyond the Sea
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Dear Frankie
Bride & Prejudice
Winter Solstice
Look at Me
Walk on Water
The Chorus
Schultze Gets the Blues
Paper Clips
Melinda and Melinda
COMING SOON!
May Events from The Boston Jewish Film Festival
Coming Soon:
The Boston Jewish Film Festival Encore and More! at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 2 ‘ July 7. See www.bjff.org/events for details
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President