Hello Everyone,
This is a big week, between some exciting new releases, Film Festivals and other exciting upcoming events, any Chlotrudis member will have a host of film possibilties to choose from. For the Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies this week, we’ve got a movie planned that’s sure to please everyone. Join us for the 7:15 pm screening of CAPOTE at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. If you’ve read the reviews, you know this one’s a winner. With outstanding performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener, and a whip-smart screenplay from Dan Futterman, CAPOTE is a real winner. Don’t miss this film that’s sure to be on many nomination sheets come January.
Capote
Truman Capote was one of the most astonishing and singular personalities of his time, and now acclaimed indie actor Philip Seymour Hoffman brings this fascinating character back to life in the true story of how Capote came create the “non-fiction novel” and write one of the greatest books of the 20th century, In Cold Blood. In 1959, Capote read an article on the murder of a well-known farm family’the Clutters’in Holcomb, Kansas, and headed to the midwest to dig deeper. With the help of Catherine Keener as his childhood friend Harper Lee (who herself would go on to write the legendary To Kill A Mockingbird), and Chris Cooper as the lawman leading the hunt for the brutal murderers, Capote uncovers the horror of the story, and the society that allows it to happen.
This weekend the Brattle Film Foundation presents the 3rd Annual Fantastic Film Festival. This signature Brattle event brings the best in sci fi/horror/fantasy films to Boston and this year’s line-up is super. Fans of Japanese anime can NOT miss MIND GAME, Masaaki Yuasa’s insane, visual extravaganza that has to be seen to be believed. MIND GAME plays Friday evening at 5:15 and Saturday at midnight. MAREBITO is the latest film from Takashi Shimizu, director of THE GRUDGE. This Japanese horror film plays Friday at 7:30 and Saturday at 5:30. Speaking of Shimizu, he’s got another film in this festival, and fans of JU-ON won’t want to miss it. JU-ON 2 plays Saturday night at 10:00 p.m. There’s even something for kids! Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 and 3:30, enjoy the new 35mm print of THE MUPPET MOVIE. See the first film to star Kermit on the big screen. There’s something for everyone at the Brattle’s Fantastic Film Festival.
The The Boston Latino Film Festival kicks off on Friday night and will run for the next week. Chlotrudis member Gil Cordova is one of the festival’s organizers, and they’ve put together a terrific line-up of films from Spain, Central and South America. Opening night features Natalia Almada’s documentary film, AL OTOR LADO (TO THE OTHER SIDE) at 7pm at the Harvard Film Archive. The film focuses on a musician who finds that he cannot make a living as a fisherman in his village so he contemplates whether to move to the United States or get involved in trafficking drugs. One of the things that makes this film stand out is the beautiful cinematography of Chuy Chavez who was the cinematographer on Miranda July’s ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW and Miguel Arteta’s CHUCK AND BUCK. If you need more incentive to check out the film, there will be a reception before the film at 5:30pm that will be catered by Whole Foods and the director of the film will conduct a Q&A after the screening. To find out more about the Boston Latino Film Festival, check out their web site or read Gil’s post on the Mewsings ‘blog.
Speaking of Film Festivals, the Boston Jewish Film Festival is ramping up with a terrific line up for their festival running November 2 – 13. One date you definitely want to mark down is Sunday, November 13, 2:15 p.m. for GO FOR ZUCKER! at the Museum of Fine Arts. The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film will be co-presenting GO FOR ZUCKER! an ‘unorthodox’ comedy about modern German Jews outside the context of the Holocaust. I hope you can make it to some of the many terrific films playing during the BJFF! More info about BJFF appears at the end of this message.
That’s it for this week.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, October 14 – 20.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
The Third Annual Boston Fantastic Film Festival!
New England Premieres!
Mind Game (Fri. & Sat.)
Marebito (Fri. & Sat.)
R-Point (Sat.)
Trapped by the Mormons (Sat.)
Archival Screening – New 35 mm print!
The Muppet Movie (Sat. & Sun.)
New England Premieres
Reeker (Sat.)
The Dark Hours (Sat.)
The Collingswood Story (Sun.)
Ju-On 2 (Sun.)
Greta Garbo Centennial Celebration
Flesh and the Devil (Mon. & Tue.)
The Temptress (Mon. & Tue.)
Queen Christina (Wed.)
Harvard Bookstore Presents
Dava Sobel (Tue.)
Boston Premiere
Swimmng Upstream (Thu.) Writer/Producer Anthony Fingleton will be present!
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Capote
Proof
The Aristocrats
Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque
Midnight Movies!
Die You Zombie Bastards with live music by the Demon Seeds! (Fri.)
Heroes Among Heroes (Fri.)
Flirting Scholar (Sat.)
Science on Screen
A Brief History of Time – guest speaker Professor Alan Guth (Mon.)
Mobius Artists Group Presents
Art About War (Mon.)
Film Appreciation Seminar – The Glory that is Jerry Lewis
The Bell Boy (Wed.)
Balagan
History of American Avant-Garde Cinema: Larry Gottheim (Thu.)
FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Grizzly Man
March of the Penguins
Broken Flowers
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Boston Latino International Film Festival
Al Otro Lado w/ Diez Minutos (Fri.)
Weakness of the Bolshevik (Fri.)
“New Voices, New Visions: Latina Women in the Director’s Chair” – Panel Discussion (Sat.)
Favela Rising w/ At the Bar (Sat.)
The Devil’s Miner (Sat.)
Plan Colombia: Cashing-In on the Drug War Failure w/ Radio Taxi Santafe (Sat.)
Val/Val w/ Chismosa y Menteca en Jealousy (Sat.)
Dias de Cart’i> w/ Solo un Cargador and Digital (Sat.)
Boricua w/ Las Rutas de Don Quijote and Metamorphosis (Sun.)
Hector Giraldo: a Colombian Story w/ Moving Forward and Rapping at Fear (Sun.)
Cuba: Beyond the Pearl of the Antilles w/ Jai (Sun.)
Walking the Line w/ Quadrilateral (Sun.)
Contemporary French Cinema
Romance (Mon.)
In The Trenches: Filming World War I
The Grand Illusion (Mon.)
Film Architectures
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tue.)
Imagining the City
Man with a Movie Camera (with live piano accompaniment) (Wed.)
Harvard LBGT Film Series
Longtime Companion (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Separate Lives
Everything is Illuminated
Oliver Twist
Proof
Broken Flowers
March of the Penguins
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Touch the Sound
The War Within
Hellbent
El Crimen Ferpecto
Mirrormask
Separate Lies
Everything is Illuminated
The Constant Gardener (Ineligible)
Thumbsucker
The Aristocrats
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Innocent Voices
Proof
Separate Lies
Broken Flowers
March of the Penguins
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
Capote
A History of Violence (Ineligible)
Good Night, and Good Luck
Proof
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Films of Mikio Naruse
Lightning (Fri.)
Wife! Be Like a Rose (Sat.)
New Greek Cinema
A Touch of Spice (Fri. – Sun., & Thu.)
The Weeping Meadow (Sat., Sun., & Thu.)
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (Thu.)
World’s Best TV Ads
British Advertising Films of 2004 (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Grizzly Man
Coming Soon:
BU CINEMATHEQUE RETURNS
Screenings are at 7 pm in room B-05 of the Communication Building, 640 Comm.Ave., Boston. Public transportation: the “B” Boston College Green Line, one stop beyond Kenmore Square.
Thursday, October 20-AN EVENING WITH MEL STUART. The LA-based veteran filmmaker has produced prize-winning documentaries on poets, photographers, and politicians, including classic TV looks in the 1960s on the election campaigns of John F. and Robert Kennedy. Amazingly versatile, Stuart is also the director of the great and original, Gene Wilder-starring Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), which, this evening, he’ll show and discuss.
Friday, October 21-A SECOND EVENING WITH MEL STUART- Here’s another side of Stuart, the socially-concerned documentarian. Tonight: Stuart appears for a too-rare screening of Wattstax (1973), a thrilling, invigorating concert film of the “Black Woodstock,” when America’s finest African-American musical talent’Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, etc,’joined on stage with Richard Pryor and Jesse Jackson after the so-called “Watts Riots” to bring spirit and hope back to a ravaged LA.
Thurday, October 27-AN EVENING WITH JEFF DOWD- Yes, it’s “the Dude” himself, in person, the wild-and-funny LA troubleshooter for independent films whom his friends, the Coen Brothers, borrowed when creating Jeff Bridges’s slacker, “the Dude,” for The Big Lebowski(1998). The already “cult” screwball movie will be shown, and introduced by the mesmerizing Dowd, an American original.
(Tonight’s program will be at 7 pm at the Photonics Auditorium, 6 St. Mary’s Street, Room 206.)
Friday, October 28-A PRE-CODE EVENING WITH TOM DOHERTY- Professor Doherty, head of the film program at Brandeis University, is an expert on the racy, uninhibited movies produced in Hollywood prior to the strictures and censorship of the 1934 Production Code. Tonight, Doherty presents the eye-popping W.C. Fields short,”The Dentist,” and then, in 35mm, the newly discovered uncut 1933 Baby Face, a studio classic, in which, says Leonard Maltin, “speakeasy bartender Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way, floor by floor, to the top of a N.Y.C. office building.”
The 17th annual Boston Jewish Film Festival is right around the corner!
The schedule is available at http://www.bjff.org/festival and tickets are on sale at http://www.ticketweb.com”(search: BJFF)
While you’re deciding what to see and buying your tickets, consider these options:
- Purchasing a FRIENDS PASS is a great way to see everything this year’s Festival has to offer, with guaranteed admission, discounts at local restaurants, discount parking at the MFA, and free admission to our three Reel Talks.’At only $200, it’s a great value.’Purchase online at http://www.ticketweb.com or call 617-244-9899 for details
- Specially designed for those in their 20s and 30s, the REELPASS offers flexibility, a special cocktail reception, and the opportunity to see three films for just $25!’Purchase at http://www.ticketweb.com
- Get your friends, book club, class, or networking group together and save money!’Purchasing group tickets to a film is a great way to create a social, educational, and just plain fun event.’Tickets are just $7 each for groups of 20 or more.’Contact Becky Rolnick at brolnick@bjff.org or 617-244-9899 for details.
- Make sure you know what you’re wearing to the Festival!’For the first time ever, you can purchase a T-SHIRT, tote bag, or key chain sporting our new logo and our tag line:’View life through a different lens.’Purchase online now at http://www.promoplace.com/21234/stores/bjff.
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President