Hello Film Lovers!
There is so much going on next week I hardly know where to start. Well, Monday is always a good place to start, because Monday is Chlotrudis Night at the Movies. So many things to chose from… I really wanted to see A TALE OF TWO SISTERS at the Brattle’s Boston Fantastic Film Festival, but I had to go with PRIMER. It’s only playing for a single week at the Kendall Square Theatre, and this much-talked about Sundance film is a time travel odyssey made for under $7,000! Join us Monday evening for the 7:50 p.m. show at the Kendall Square Theatre.
In writer/director Shane Carruth’s exciting feature debut’a tour de force variation on the time travel theme’two young engineers (director Carruth and David Sullivan) who work by day for a large corporation conduct extracurricular experiments on their own time. While tweaking their current project, they accidentally discover it has some highly unexpected capabilities’ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next. Grand Jury Prize Winner (Drama) at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
Director: Shane Carruth
Cast: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya, Carrie Crawford, Jay Butler, John Carruth, Juan Tapia, Ashley Warren, Samantha Thomson, Chip Carruth, Jack Pyland, Keith Bradshaw, Brandon Blagg, Jon Cook
Many of you have heard me rave about the films of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang. His Chlotrudis nominated WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? is one of my favorite modern films. Well Tsai Ming-Liang is all over Boston next week, and his new film, GOOD BYE DRAGON INN opens the following week at the Brattle Theatre. But this week, you have not one, but TWO chances to hear Tsai Ming-Liang in person! On Tuesday evening, the director will be at the Harvard Film Archive previewing his new film, GOOD BYE DRAGON INN, as well as his last short, THE SKYWALK IS GONE, which is a sequel of sorts to WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? Tickets are $12.00 for this event. However, you can also catch Tsai for FREE courtesy of Gerry Peary and his fabulous B.U. Cinematheque. On Thursday night, at 7 p.m., join Tsai and Gerry for a screening of an early film, REBELS OF A NEON GOD. The director will address the audience after the film. Where is this fabulous event, you ask? On the B.U. campus at Room B-05, 640 Comm. Ave., I answer. And please, if you go, say hello to Gerry and tell him Chlotrudis sent you (and send my apologies, I will be at a Library Conference in New York, darn it! Enjoy Tsai Ming-Liang week in Boston!
If you’re looking for some interesting movies to catch over the weekend, stop by the Brattle Theatre and take part in the 2nd Annual Boston Fantastic Film Festival. Ned has tracked down some of the most exciting upcoming releases in the horror, fantasy and sci fi genres and they’re playing this weekend at the Brattle Theatre. Don’t miss this special event.
Of course, you also don’t want to forget the Chlotrudis SWAP Party on Saturday evening, 4:00 – 7:00 at chez Emily Neil’s, 8 Hamilton Rd. #2, Brookline, MA. Get ready to do some swapping… DVD swapping that is! Bring a guest and you could win a prize! Perhaps we’ll even hit our 100th member goal at this party! You could bring the 100th member! Enjoy good friends, great conversation, and lots of wacky fun! And while you’re mulling over what you might want to bring to swap, be thinking of your guilty pleasure film as well…
Finally, don’t forget about the Sunday Eye Opener, 11:00 a.m. at the Brattle Theatre. Watch for a follow-up e-mail announcing the film real soon!
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, October 15 – 21.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
2nd Annual Fantastic Film Festival!
New England Premiere
Internal Affairs (Fri.)
Alive (Fri.)
U.S. Premiere
The Bottled Fool (Fri. & Sat.)
Five Children and It (Sat.)
Special Screening!
100 Scariest Movie Moments (Sat.)
U.S. Premiere
Appleseed (Sat.)
Rare Director’s Cut Screening
Perdito Durango
Special Theatrical Premiere
Darklight (Sun.)
Special Advance Screening!
Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior (Sun. & Mon.)
New England Premiere
Freeze Frame (Sun.)
New England Premiere
Sympahty for Mr. Vengeance (Sun.)
Closing Night Film – New England Premiere
A Tale of Two Sisters (Mon.)
Sunday Eye Opener
To Be Announced (Sun.)
Film Noir 101
Murder at Harvard (aka Mystery Street) (Tue.)
Asphalt Jungle (Wed.)
Boston Irish Film Festival – Opening Night Film!
Bloom Director Sean Walsh in Person! (Thu.)
Harvard Bookstore Presents…
James Ellroy (Mon.)
Susan Orlean (Mon.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
I [Heart Huckabees]
The Motorcycle Diaries
Virgin
Midnites!
Wizard People Dear Readers with live music by Harry and the Potters (Fri.)
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut (Fri.)
Punk Rock Holocaust (Sat.)
Kung Fu!
Mr. Vampire 3 (Sat.)
Relatively Speaking
Pat Keck & Jim Keck present Pi
Duplex Planet 25th Anniversary Celebration
Your Own True Self (Mon.)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Direct Democracy: The Presidential Election on Screen
Feed (Fri.)
The War Room & Campaign Manager (Fri.)
Medium Cool (Sat.)
The Best Man (Sat.)
Trouble in Paradise (Sun.)
Selected Films of Roy Andersson
Songs from the Second Floor (Sun.)
A Swedish Love Story (Wed.)
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Jaws (Mon.)
Cin’ Fran’s
Trouble Every Day (Mon.)
An Evening with Tsai Ming-liang Director in Person!
Good Bye Dragon Inn with The Skywalk is Gone (Tue.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Check Local Listings
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Primer
Around the Bend
Tarnation
The Motorcycle Diaries
Shaun of the Dead
A Dirty Shame
Garden State
Maria Full of Grace
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
The Motorcycle Diaries
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
What the #$*! Do We Know
A Dirty Shame
The Last Shot
Garden State
Before Sunset
Loews Theatres Copley Place, Boston
Red Lights
Hero
Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
Bright Young Things
The Yes Men
What the #$*! Do We Know
Vanity Fair
Napoleon Dynamite
Harvard Square, Cambridge
I [Heart] Huckabees
Hero
Team America: World Police
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
World’s Best TV Ads
British Advertising Films of 2003 (Fri., Sat. & Thu.)
A Bruce Weber Film
A Letter to True (Fri., Sat., Wed. & Thu.)
Cinema Tropical
The Private Archives of Pablo Escobar (Fri. & Sat.)
Animation For All Ages
The Dot (Sat.)
Art on Film
Russian Ark (Sun.)
New England Film Artists Present
The Political Dr. Seuss (Sun.)
Cambodian History
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Wed. & Thu.)
Artist’s Presentation
Peter Kubelka Screening (Thu.)
Boston Greek Film Festival
Totally Married
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Maria Full of Grace (ends Sat.)
What the #$*! Do We Know (starts Fri.)
Coming Soon!
Chlotrudis 5th Annual Short Film Festival!
at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Nov. 1 & The Brattle Theatre, Nov. 2
Gerald Peary’s BU Cinematheque
Filmmakers discuss their films in an intimate setting… for FREE!
An Evening with Tsai Ming-Liang! Room B-05, 640 Comm. Ave.
Rebels of a Neon God Thursday, October 21, 7 p.m. Hear Tsai Ming-Liang in an intimate setting!
Boston Jewish Film Festival
Full schedule announced! Tickets on sale now!
November 3 – 14
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President