Hello Everyone,
Trying to get back to normal for our Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies this week, although it is a holiday for some… Columbus Day. So why don’t you come joing us at the Kendall Square Theatre for the 7:20 p.m. show of MIRRORMASK. Director Dave McKean and screenwriter Neil Gaiman made their names on the Sandman comic book in the 1980’s. Now they have teamed up for a darkly fantastic film. Join us beforehand for dinner!
Famed graphic novelists Neil Gaiman (screenwriter) and Dave McKean (director) combine their talents to create a dazzling, imaginative creation that resembles a cross between LABYRINTH and Alice in Wonderland, but is entirely original. Helena (Stephanie Leonidas), a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents, her mother (Gina McKee) falls dangerously ill and Helena is convinced she is to blame. She dreams she is in a strange, doomed land with opposing queens, bizarre creatures and masked inhabitants, and only she can restore the balance by finding the MIRRORMASK.
Here’s another fine example of just how lucky we are in Boston to have the Brattle Theatre. This weekend, the Brattle presents the area premiere of TROPICAL MALADY, a gay-themed romance wrapped around a Thai folk legend involving a shaman with shapeshifting abilities! Where else could you see a film like that nowadays? TROPICAL MALADY plays Friday – Sunday at the Brattle. You might want to check this one out! And for a very important message from the Brattle, watch you Chlotrudis e-mail, or check out their webpage.
You’re all so lucky! The delightful, French, sex farce COTE D’AZUR has been held over for another week at the Kendall Square Cinema, so don’t waste this special opportunity to see it. The pitch perfect film stars Gilbert Melkhi from Lucas Belvaux’s TRILOGY and doesn’t hit a wrong note in its frothy comedy. If you’re looking for a fun way to spend 90 minutes in the theatre, you’ve found your film!
That’s it for this week.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, October 7 – 13.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Special Engagement – Area Premiere!
Tropical Malady (Fri. – Sun.)
Special Event
Cries from the Border (Sat. & Sun.)
Greta Garbo Centennial Celebration
Anna Karenina (Mon.)
Ninotchka (Tue. & Wed..)
Grand Hotel (Tue & Wed.)
The Third Annual Boston Fantastic Film Festival!
Opening Night Selection – New England Premieres!
Creep (Thu.)
Izo (Thu.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Thumbsucker
Proof
The Aristocrats
Operation: Dreamland (Mon., Wed., & Thu.)
30th Annual New England Film & Video Foundation
Cuba Mia: Portrait of an All-Woman Orchestra (Fri.)
Walking the Line (Fri.)
Edge of Darkness: Dark Warrior (Fri.)
Chaos & Order: Making American Theatre (Sat.)
Reflections: Short Documentaries (Sat.)
Fences & Fingernails (Sat.)
You Are Alone (Sat.)
King of Punk (Sat.)
The Crocodile River: One Man’s Journey (Sun.)
The Gay Marriage Thing (Sun.)
Still We Ride (Sun.)
Streets of Wonderland (Sun.)
Awake (Sun.)
The Man Who Couldn’t (Sun.)
Progressions: Narrative Shorts (Mon.)
Imagination: Shorts (Mon.)
Short Shorts (Mon.)
Kung Fu for Kids
Thrilling Bloody Sword (Fri.)
Monkey War: New Pilgrims Through the West (Sat.)
New England Student Video Festival (Tue.)
The Allston Skirt Gallery Presents:
Bob Dylan Mix Tape (Tue.)
Brookline Booksmith Presents:
Chris Eliot in person with Cabin Boy (Wed.)
Filmmakers from the West Coast: Rebecca Baron (in person) (Thu.)
FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Grizzly Man
Junebug
March of the Penguins
Broken Flowers
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Mikio Naruse: A Centennial Tribute
Late Chrysanthemums (Fri.)
Repast (Fri.)
Floating Clouds (Sat.)
Lightning (Sat.)
Flowing (Sun.)
Sound of the Mountain (Sun.)
A Wanderer’s Notebook (Mon.)
Yearning (Mon.)
Film Architectures
High Treason (Tue.)
Metropolis (with live piano accompaniment) (Wed.)
In The Trenches: Filming World War I
Hell’s Angels (Tue.)
Imagining the City
Sunrise (with live piano accompaniment) (Wed.)
Harvard LBGT Film Series
Hairspray (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Everything is Illuminated
Oliver Twist
Proof
Broken Flowers
March of the Penguins
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
C’d’Azur
Cr’as
El Crimen Ferpecto
Mirrormask
Seperate Lies
Everything is Illuminated
The Constant Gardener (Ineligible)
Thumbsucker
The Aristocrats
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Thumbsucker
Proof
The Aristocrats
Separate Lies
Broken Flowers
March of the Penguins
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
A History of Violence (Ineligible)
Good Night, and Good Luck
Green Street Hooligans
Proof
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Cuba on Film
I Am Cuba (Fri. & Sat.)
I Am Cuba: the Siberian Mammoth (Fri. & Sat.)
The Films of Mikio Naruse
Summer Clouds (Sat.)
The Whole Family Works (Sun.)
Flowing (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Junebug
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 6-AN EVENING WITH BOB WHITE. In the decades since a BU graduate student, White, a Simmons College professor, has become Boston’s most prolific animator, with a stream of hilarious, wildly inventive, sometimes steamy, one-man cartoons. The Boston Globe has praised his recent output as “a cyberpunk orgy, full of monster robots, neo-Godzillas, and nymphet heroines (a la Japanese animation).” At BU, White will screen old and new, from cel animation to flip-books to computer-generated works.
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.”
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President