Hey there Everyone!
If you’ve been to the Kendall recently, you may have seen the preview, but don’t be turned off. As I suspected, and Beth Curran confirms, TURTLES CAN FLY is completely misrepresented by it’s trailer (the same way NOBODY KNOWS was.) Join us at the Kendall Square Theatre for the 7:20 p.m. screening on Monday Night. It’s a one-week only run, so do try to make it. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good film from Iran/Iraq.
Thirteen-year-old Soran (Soran Ebrahim) is known as “Satellite” because of his skill at installing dishes in his Kurdish village, where people are searching for news of Saddam Hussein on the eve of the American Iraqi invasion. The industrious and cheerful Soran falls for orphan Agrin (Avaz Latif), a sad-faced girl traveling with her seemingly clairvoyant brother and caring for a 3-year-old child. The exquisitely haunting mountains of Kurdistan play backdrop to both tragedy and humor in the third feature film from Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi (MAROONED IN IRAQ, A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES). (Fully subtitled)
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Avaz Latif, Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Of course the big movie event for this weekend is the 3rd Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston. Only in its third year, the IFFB has taken the Boston film scene by storm featuring quality independent narratives and documentaries, along with many of their filmmakers, in a cohesive festival that’s sure to please the Chlotrudis member. This year’s festival begins Thursday, April 21 and runs through Sunday, April 25 at the Somerville Theatre, The Brattle Theatre, the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and new this year, the Museum of Fine Arts. Look for multiple Chlotrudis members volunteering at all venues and make sure you say hello! The selection of films is pretty intriguing this year, including BROTHERS, the latest film by director Susanne Bier (OPEN HEARTS), starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas, the lead from RECONSTRUCTION. The newest film by Hal Hartley is called THE GIRL FROM MONDAY, and it will be screening Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! The documentary MURDERBALL is inexplicably this year’s hot film to see, at least among the IFFB volunteers. It follows a team of quadrepalegic rugby players who make it to the Special Olympics. Perhaps of most interest to many Chlotrudis members, is the sophmore directing effort from our pal Don McKellar. CHILDSTAR plays Friday and Sunday at the Somerville Theatre, and is a co-presentation with the Chlotrudis Society for Indpendent Film! Support CSIF and laugh at the quirky antics of Mr. McKellar… don’t miss it!
Meanwhile there are a couple of other new release you may be interested in this week. Opening WIDE is Stephen Chow’s KUNG FU-HUSTLE. I have no doubt that we’ll be catching this film soon, but I wanted to make sure that we didn’t miss TURTLES CAN FLY, so I didn’t make it this week’s Chlotrudis movie of the week. Plus, I suspect that it’s release wil be so wide that it won’t be eligible next year. Johanna takes a moment to write a rare review of SCHULTZE GETS THE BLUES, which she highly recommends and urges others to see. I feel the same way about LOOK AT ME, a delightful and well-made French comedy. Take a moment and catch up with a few terrific films!
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, April 15 – 21.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Independent Film Festival of Boston
Shakespeare Behind Bars (Fri.)
Mutual Appreciation w/ The Meaning of Life (Fri.)
Closed on Sundays (Fri.)
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things w/ Allison (Fri.)
The Future of Food w/ Magda (Sat.)
After Innocence (Sat.)
Murderball (Sat.)
Popaganda: the Art and Crimes of Ron English (Sat.)
Dead Birds w/ The Netherbeast of Berm-Tech Industries, Inc. (Sat.)
The Girl from Monday w/ The Adventures of Slater’s Friend (Sun.)
Stolen (Sun.)
Same Sex America (Sun.)
Buddy (Sun.)
New 35 mm Print!
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mon. & Tue.)
Harvard Book Store Presents
Ruth Reichl (Mon.)
New 35 mm Print!
The Pink Panther (Wed. & Thu.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Independent Film Festival of Boston
Shorts Package 1: Brief Encounters (Fri.)
Shorts Package 2: Subjective Reality (Fri.)
Shorts Package 3: Dark Matter (Fri.)
Dead Birds (Fri.)
Finnish Experimental Shorts (Sat.)
Spew: the World of Competitive Debate (Sat.)
The Fall of Fujimori (Sat.)
Mardi Gras: Made in China (Sat.)
Young Rebels (Sat.)
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (Sat.)
POPaganda: the Art & Crimes of Ron English (Sun.)
Abel Raises Cain (Sun.)
Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley (Sun.)
Filmic Achievment (Sun.)
The Hole Story (Sun.)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Kung Fu Hustle
Academy Award Nominated Shorts (Mon. – Wed.)
Millions
Watermarks (Mon. – Thu.)
Midnite Madness
The Animation Show (Fri.)
New 35 mm Print
Vincete Minnelli’s Gigi (Mon.)
Brookline Reads free screening
Orson Welles’ Macbeth (Tue.)
Film Class featuring Putney Swope
Unhinged Cinema (Wed.)
VideoSpace and Judy Rottenberg Gallery present
Public Spaces (Thu.)
Sneak Preview Screening
Funny Ha Ha (Thu.)
Grub Street Screenwriter Salon (Thu.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Millions
Sideways
Bombay Cinema Presents
Waqt (Sat. & Sun.)
FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
The Independent Film Festival of Boston
Finnish Experimental Shorts (Fri.)
Spew: the World of Competitive Debate (Fri.)
Stolen (Fri.)
Childstar (Fri. & Sun.) co-presented by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film!
Filmic Achievment w/ Carmen (Fri. & Sat.)
Same Sex America (Fri.)
Mardi Gras: Made in China w/ Waking Dreams (Fri.)
Home w/ The Passage of Mrs. Calabash (Fri. & Sat.)
The Hole Story w/ Samuel Demango (Fri. & Sat.)
Young Rebels w/ Recycle (Fri.)
Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley (Fri.)
The Fall of Fujimori (Fri. & Sun.)
Abel Raises Cain w/ Lilo & Me (Fri. & Sat.)
Blackballed w/ Spam-ku (Fri. & Sun.)
White Skin w/ Herbie! (Fri. & Sat.)
Sundowning (Sat. & Sun.)
Shakespeare Behind Bars (Sat.)
Casting About w/ Are You the Favorite Person of Everybody? (Sat.)
Mutual Appreciation w/ The Meaning of Life (Sat.)
The Girl from Monady w/ The Adventures of Slater’s Friend (Sat.)
Chain w/ Ryan (Sat. & Sun.)
In a Nutshell w/ Don Gorske: Mac Daddy (Sat. & Sun.)
Parallel Lines w/ The Youth in Us (Sat. & Sun.)
Liberia: an Uncivil War w/ Dressed to Kill (Sat. & Sun.)
A Whale of a Tale (Sat. & Sun.)
Buddy (Sat.)
Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth (Sun.)
Rhythm is it! (Sun.)
Closed on Sundays (Sun.)
The Future of Food (Sun.)
Shorts Package 1: Brief Encounters (Sun.)
Shorts Package 3: Dark Matter (Sun.)
Mysterious Skin (Sat.)
Regular Screenings
Sideways (Mon. – Thu.)
Millions (Mon. – Thu.)
Hotel Rwanda (Mon. – Thu.)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
The Death of the Sixties
Gimme Shelter (Fri.)
Performance (Fri.)
Maidstone (Sat.)
Coming Apart (Sat.)
Zabriskie Point (Sun.)
The Last Movie (Sun.)
Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960-2005
Camel(s) (Mon.)
Black and White on Screen
The Story of a Three-Day Pass (Mon.)
Fashion and Films
Emak-Bakie, Puce Moment, Lines Horizontal & You Be Mother (Tue.)
Film and Autobiograhpy
Bright Leaves Chlotrudis Nominee for Best Documentary! (Tue.)
Frames of Mind
The Matrix (Wed.)
Philosophy and Film: Deleuze
First Name: Carmen (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Dear Frankie
Schultze Gets the Blues
Born into Brothels
Millions
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Turtles Can Fly
Kung Fu Hustle
Up and Down
Look at Me
Don’t Move
Old Boy
Walk on Water
Downfall
Born into Brothels
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Kung Fu Hustle
Don’t Move
Melinda and Melinda
Downfall
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Born into Brothels
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
Melinda and Melinda
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Independent Film Festival of Boston
The Girl from Monday w/ The Adventures of Slater’s Friends (Fri.)
Casting About w/ Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (Fri.)
Maysles Brothers Award Ceremony
Grey Gardens (Fri.)
Stolen (Sat.)
Rhythm is it! (Sat.)
Closed on Sundays (Sat.)
Same Sex America (Sat.)
Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth (Sat.)
Young Rebels w/ Recycle (Sun.)
Kings and Queen (Sun.)
Closing Night Film
Me and You and Everyone You Know (Sun.)
Cinema Vino
Mondovino (Thu.)
Art on Film
Antonio Gaudi (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
The Boys and Girl of County Clare
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Dear Frankie
Look at Me
Walk on Water
Hotel Rwanda
The Chorus
Schultze Gets the Blues
Paper Clips
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President