Hey there Everyone!
It’s either feast or famine! In addition to the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards, which I will discuss more fully below, there are several new films opening this week that I want to see! Yes, Chlotrdis Awards will only be 24 hours in the past, and the Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies will be back in place. Please join us on Monday, March 21 at the Kendall Square Cinema for the 7:25 screening of Eytan Fox’s WALK ON WATER. Fox’s last film was the Boston Jewish Film Festival’s Audience Award winner YOSSI & JAGGER. The BJFF has already had a special screening of WALK ON WATER with director Eytan Fox in attendance, which I unfortunately had to miss. The film stars Lior Ashkenazi, outstanding in LATE MARRIAGE.
Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi, Late Marriage), a fierce agent for the elite Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, is assigned to track down aging Nazi war criminal Alfred Himmelman, who might still be alive. By posing as a tour guide, Eyal befriends Himmelman’s freethinking grandchildren in Tel Aviv, later following them to Germany for a family gathering. What begins as a deceptive mission dissolves into a journey through conflicting ideologies and histories, changing Eyal’s view of the world forever. Winner of three Israeli Film Academy Awards. (Partially subtitled)
DIRECTOR: Eytan Fox
CAST: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Hanns Zischler, Carola Regnier
I’m hoping to be able to catch the latest piece of anime extravaganza by AKIRA director Katsuhiro ‘omo, STEAMBOY. This one opens at the Kendall as well and I’d really like to see it. Also opening this week is Danny Boyle’s new film MILLIONS. The Kendall opens it on Friday, but the Coolidge will be opening it as well on Wednesday. HEAD-ON has gotten some strong reviews from Chlotrudis members, and that continues to play at the Coolidge.
The real excitement is coming up this weekend, with the Chlotrudis Society of Independent Film’s WILBY Weekend and 11th Annual Awards Ceremony! The weekend kicks off on Friday and Saturday when Chlotrudis and the Brattle Film Foundation co-present WILBY WONDERFUL, directed by 2004’s Chlotrudis “Body of Work” Award winner, Daniel MacIvor, and starring a cornucopia of Canadian film talent: Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, Jim Allodie, Jim Allodi, Rebecca Jenkins, Paul Gross, and the lovely Ellen Page (pictured left) who will be on hand for the evening screenings to say hello and answer a few questions. The weekend is capped off with the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony, where the winners of this year’s Chlotrudis Awards will be announced! Ellen Page will be on hand to 
collect the Breakthrough Award, won last year by the fabulous Kerry Washington. Other guests include Belgian writer/director/actor Lucas Belvaux, whose films ON THE RUN, AN AMAZING COUPLE, and AFTER THE LIFE, collectively called THE TRILOGY are nominated in four categories. Belvaux is this year’s recipient of the Chlotrudis “Body of Work” Award for his achievement in front of and behind the camera. Rounding out this year’s guest list is John O’Brien, the talented young director whose recent film NOSEY PARKER is nominated in the Buried Treasure Category. John will be on hand to accept the Chlotrudis “Maverick” Award. Tickets are on sale now for all of the exciting Wilby Weekend events at the Brattle Theatre. Chlotrudis members can reserve tickets for the Awards Ceremony by contacting me at colford@chlotrudis.org. The special, members-only after party at Noir is sponsored by the Canadian Consulate of Boston. Thanks also to Noir and The Charles Hotel.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, March 11 – 17.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Co-presented by Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film!
Wilby Wonderful Actress Ellen Page will be present! (Fri. & Sat.)
11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards! (Sun.)
Area Theatrical Premiere!
Sunset Story (Mon. & Tue.)
Cambridge Queer Presents (Wed.)
Harvard Book Store and the Brattle Film Foundation Present
An Evening with Robert B. Parker (Thu.)
Robert B. Parker Introduces
The Maltese Falcon (Thu.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Head-On
Million Dollar Baby
Academy Award Nominated Shorts (Fri. – Tue.)
Millions (Wed. & Thu.)
Watermarks
Coolidge Award retrospective of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 (Mon.)
Balagan special big screen show:
Short Films of Richard Leacock Director present! (Tue.)
Coolidge Award Seminar:
DREAM TEAM: Storaro & Bertolucci (Wed.)
Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series
Jim Finn & Arthur Jones (Thu.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
A Very Long Engagement
Finding Neverland
Bride & Prejudice
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)
FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
A Very Long Engagement
Finding Neverland (Fri., Mon. – Wed.)
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)
Bombay Cinema Presents
Black (Fri. – Sun.)
Bewafaa (Fri. – Sun.)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
The Experimentalists: 11 Experimental shorts (Fri.)
The Truth of the Matter: 8 Experimental Documentaries (Fri.)
Film and Autobiography
Diary (Sat. & Sun.)
JLG/JLG (Tue.)
Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960-2005
Repatriation Director in person!(Mon.)
Black and White On Screen
Lost Boundaries (Mon.)
Fashion and Film
The Pillow Book (Tue. & Wed.)
Philosophy and Film: Deleuze
The Earrings of Madame de’ (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Bride & Prejudice
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Cast!
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Steamboy
Millions
Walk on Water
Gunner Palace
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Nobody Knows
Downfall
Born into Brothels
Hotel Rwanda
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Melinda and Melinda (Wed. & Thu.)
Downfall
Gunner Palace
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Bride & Prejudice
Born into Brothels
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible) (ineligible)
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
In My Country
The Upside of Anger
Dear Frankie
Schultze Gets the Blues
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Vietnamese Cinema
Buffalo Boy (Fri., Sun., & Thu.)
Maurice Pialat Retrospective
Police (Fri.)
Le Gar’/i> (Thu.)
The House in the Woods Part 2
Argentinian Cinema
Today and Tomorrow (Sat.)
Chinese Cinema
Uniform (Sat. & Thu.)
Uruguayan Cinema
Whisky (Thu.)
Bosnian/Herzegovinan Cinema
Fuse (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Born into Brothels
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
In My Country
Walk on Water
Hotel Rwanda
The Chorus
Finding Neverland
Paper Clips
Being Julia
Vera Drake Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Actress!
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President