Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies + Indie Film Round-Up, January 28 – February 3.

Hey there Everyone!

A change of venue marks this week’s Monday Night Movie of the Week as we head to the Harvard Film Archive for a very special event. Join us for a screening of a 2004 Sundance favorite, BROTHER TO BROTHER. Director Rodney Evans will be at this screening, co-presented with the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute of African and African American Research at Harvard University. Tickets are $10 and we will be in line by 6:30 because this could sell out.

Rich in heart and intelligence, Rodney Evans’ first fiction feature pays homage to art, intellectual ancestry, and the strength to persevere in the face of social injustice. Both an artistic and political achievement, BROTHER TO BROTHER offers a rare glimpse of what it means to be a black, gay artist today as well as during the Harlem Renaissance, and marks Evans as a brave and unique voice in American cinema. Perry Williams is a talented young artist working and studying in New York. Art world success is knocking at his door, but Perry is afraid of “selling out” to a privileged, white world. At the same time, community and family support is elusive as he endures homophobic barbs from his black classmates, rejection by his father, and a disappointingly fetishistic relationship with his handsome white lover. Then Perry meets Bruce Nugent, a living relic, who was a poet and painter of the Harlem Renaissance, along with Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Wallace Thurman. Surreal narrative turns land him in the middle of scandalous parties and dinners in 1930s Harlem, and Perry learns that his struggle is not new and what is most important is a strong self-image and a commitment to preserve truth and to nurture his artistic spirit.

Another film receiving general release this week is a Best Documentary Academy Award nominee, BORN INTO BROTHELS. I’ve heard raves about this film from new member Beth Caldwell, and it’s only playing for a week at the Kendall after it’s premiere as opening night at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the MFA. Try to squeeze this amazing film where writers/directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman offer a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes.

If you’re a fan of David Lynch (and come on, who isn’t?) here’s your chance to catch up on his body of work as the Brattle Theatre presents I Had a Dream About This Place: The Films of David Lynch. Friday night the series kicks off with a rare theatrical engagement of the challenging ERASERHEAD. Not for the easily disturbed, ERASERHEAD boasts some pretty indelible imagery that you’ll have trouble getting out of your head. And it’s got quite the sound design too! All the old favorites are there, including BLUE VELVET, DUNE, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME and more. Need your dose of Lynch? Get to the Brattle Theatre.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, January 28 – February 3.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
I Had a Dream About This Place: The Films of David Lynch
Eraserhead (Fri.)
Mulholland Dr. (Sat.)
Double Feature!
Blue Velvet & Wild at Heart (Sun.)
Dune (Mon.)
Elephant Man (Tue.)
Lost Highway (Wed.)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Bad Education Nominated for Best Actor and Best Movie Chlotrudis Awards!
Hotel Rwanda
Paper Clips (Mon. – Thu.)
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Midnite Madness
The Hobbit (Fri. & Sat.)
Night of the Living Dead (Fri. & Sat.)
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Persons of Interest (Fri. & Sat.)
Saints and Sinners (Fri. & Wed.)
Goodbye Hungaria (Sat., Wed. & Thu.)
Juvies (Sat., Sun. & Thu.)
Deadline (Sun.)
Repartation (Sun.)
Three Kings w/ Soldier’s Pay (Mon.)
What the Eye Doesn’t See (Tue.)

FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
Finding Neverland

FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Finding Neverland
The Motorcycle Diaries (Mon. – Thu.) Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay Chlotrudis Award!
Bombay Cinema Presents
Kisna (Fri. – Sun.)

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Fifth Annual New Films from Europe
Ae Fond Kiss (Fri.)
Strong Shoulders (Fri. & Sun.)
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial (Sat.& Sun.)
The Miracle of Bern (Sat.)
Brother to Brother Director in Person! (Mon.)
Life Stories: Film and Autobiography
American Splendor (Tue.)
David Holzman’s Diary (Tue.)
Deleuze: Philosophy and Film
India Song (Wed.)
La Jet’/i> and Every Man for Himself (Wed.)