Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies & Indie Film Round-Up, September 30 – October 6

Hello Everyone,

Is there any question as to the Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies for next week? It’s our 6th Annual Short Film Festival, of course! Ten selections, including animation, experimental work, and international films will compete for the title of the Chlotrudis Society’s Best Short Film of the Year. Audiences members also vote for the Audience Award. As a special added treat, the festival will open and close with two U.S. Premiere short films by Canadian Chlotrudis fave, Don McKellar! Don’s films, Phone Call from an Imaginary Girlfriend: Ankara and Phone Call from an Imaginary Girlfriend: Istanbul will screen out of competition as a special Chlotrudis exclusive. (THUG, by Swampscott native Geva Patz is pictured left)

The festival begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Bring your Chlotrudis membership card, because admission is $9/$6 for Chlotrudis and Coolidge members. And arrive early, because Chlotrudis will be holding its 2nd annual Silent Auction, with terrific items up for bid such as a two-night stay at the Charles Hotel, tickets to shows at the A.R.T., The Lyric Stage of Boston, and the Theatre Offensive, and a host of film festival passes for such important fests such as the Boston Jewish Film Festival, The Independent Film Festival of Boston, The Provincetown International Film Festival, the Boston Latino Film Festival and many more. Also up for auction are a pair of 6 month memberships for Film Movement, and some original artwork by Chlotrudis member Beth Caldwell. Bring your checkbooks: every bid could win you fabulous prizes, and supports the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film as well!

There are a lot of other terrific films opening this week, so do think about heading out to the movies on another night as well. I’m very excited about MIRRORMASK, a fantasy fable written by comic book rock star Neil Gaiman. I also highly recommend the delicious French sex-farce, C’d’Azur. We caught this sheer delight at the Provincetown International Film Festival earlier this year, and it stars Gilbert Melkhi, so fabulous is Lucas Belvaux’s THE TRILOGY. If you’re looking for a romp filled with laughs, you’ll check this one out.

The Brattle Theatre is showing a pack of films from Spain’s master of mutant action, Alex de la Iglesia. I recently saw one of his earlier films, La Comunidad, starring Carmen Maura and it was lots of fun. I haven’t seen Maura in such a fabulous role in years. Do try to check it out. And for those of you who missed the smart and entertaining German film, The Edukators can catch it at the Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday as part of their Starring Daniel Br’ries. This is one of Bruce’s top films of the year, and I enjoyed it quite a bit at the afore-mentioned Provincetown International Film Festival.

That’s it for this week.
See you at the movies!

Playing this week, September 30 – October 6.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Mutant Action: The Films of Alex de la Iglesia
Ferpect Crime (Fri.)
Mutant Action (Fri.)
La Comunidad (Sat.)
800 Bullets (Sat.)
Day of the Beast (Sun.)
Perdita Durango (Sun.)
Harvard Book Store Presents
Dan Savage (Sat.)
Greta Garbo Centennial Celebration
Camille (Mon. & Tue.)
Anna Christie (Mon. & Tue.)
As You Desire Me (Wed.)
The Guaranteed Request Raffle Winner Night!
Smoke Signals (Thu.)
The Straight Story (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Thumbsucker
Proof
The Aristocrats
Operation: Dreamland
Midnite Shaw Brothers Kung Fu Madness
Crippled Avengers (Fri.)
Kid with the Golden Arm (Sat.)
Brookline Booksmith Presents
John Berendt (Mon.)
Special Event!
Chlotrudis Short Film Festival (Mon.)
Blue Vinyl (Sat.)
Thirst (Sun.)
The Next Industrial Revolution (Sun.)
The 30th Annual New England Film & Video Festival
Living With Slim & Buffalo Soldiers (Thu.)
Balagan
Filmmakers from the West Coast: Rebecca Baron (in person) (Thu.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Junebug
Mad Hot Ballroom
The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Mikio Naruse: A Centennial Tribute
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Fri.)
Mother (Fri.)
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Sat.)
Traveling Actors (Sat.)
A Tale of Archers at the Sanjusangendo (Sun.)
The Song Lantern (Sun.)
Contemporary French Cinema
The Lovers on a Bridge (Mon.)
Too Human: The Films of Louis Malle
Pretty Baby (Mon.)
Atlantic City (Tue.)
Film Architectures
L’Inhumaine (Tue.)
Imagining the City
Sunrise (with live piano accompaniment) (Wed.)
Harvard LBGT Film Series
Paris is Burning (Wed.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Oliver Twist
Proof
Broken Flowers
March of the Penguins
An Unfinished Life

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
C’d’Azur
Mirrormask
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Keane
Everything is Illuminated
The Constant Gardener
Thumbsucker
2046
Grizzly Man
The Aristocrats

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Thumbsucker
Proof
The Aristocrats
An Unfinished Life
Broken Flowers
March of the Penguins

Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
A History of Violence
Oliver Twist
Green Street Hooligans
Proof
Broken Flowers

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Films of Mikio Naruse
Yearning (Fri.)
Every Night Dreams (Sat.)
Sound of the Mountain (Sat.)
Repast (Sun.)
Floating Clouds (Thu.)
Engagement
Side Effects (Fri. – Sun. & Thu.)
Starring Daniel Br’>
Love in Thoughts (Sat. & Wed.)
Vaya con Dios (Sun.)
The Edukators (Wed.)
Brazilian Cinema
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (Thu.)
Classic Russian Cinema
I am Cuba (Thu.)