Hey there Everyone!
Several of the regular Monday Night Movie crowd are out-of-town next week, so I’m not going to select a specific film to go and see. I will however suggest people head out to see one of the many new films opening this week! If anyone wants to organize a Monday night outing, feel free to send a message out to chlotrudisboston@yahoogroups.com. Don’t fall behind, go see a movie!
Stop by the Coolidge Corner Theatre this week to catch the release of the long-awaited new anime film HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE. Academy Award-winning Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki (SPIRITED AWAY, PRINCESS MONONOKE) presents his latest animated adventure. Brimming with a blend of imagination, humor, action, and romance, HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE is based on the best selling children’s book by Diana Wynne Jones. The story starts when a young hat maker named Sophie finds herself literally swept off her feet by the handsome wizard Howl. Unfortunately, his attention angers the Wicked Witch of the Waste, who has her own designs on Howl, and jealously turns our heroine into a 90-year-old woman. Now Sophie must embark on an incredible quest to lift the curse. As a special treat, the Coolidge will be showing the Japanese language, subtitled version at the late show each night. HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE is also opening at the Kendall this week.
The Coolidge Corner Theatre also presents a very special series beginning on Friday: The 3D Film Festival! Pick up your 3D glasses at the box office and enjoy a collection of terrific films in 3D! HOUSE OF WAX, DIAL M FOR MURDER and KISS ME KATE are just some of the thrilling 3D films playing at the Coolidge this week.
The Brattle Theatre presents the area theatrical premiere of TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE. Ostensibly a film about the legendary cinematographer and filmmaker, Haskell Wexler, this film by his son Mark, himself an award-winning documentarian, begins as a mostly reverent talking-head type biography featuring lots of interviews with movie royalty. While the beginning is fascinating and Wexler’s career serves as almost a definition of liberal filmmaking in the Sixties, by the end, the film has progressed through being an onscreen grudge match between subject and director, with each taking the other to task both in front of and behind the camera, into a moving reconciliation of sorts between this fascinating father and son. Catch this new documentary during its weeklong run at The Brattle. TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE is also opening at the Coolidge.
The Kendall also has a couple of new films from Europe this week. HAPPILY EVER AFTER is Yvan Attal’s follow-up to the charming MY WIFE IS AN ACTRESS from 2002, also starring Charlotte Gainsbourg. With humor and heart, writer/director Yvan Attal tells the story of three male friends in contemporary Paris. Vincent and Georges are both married and fathers; their friend Fred is still single and seemingly possesses one of the greatest little black books in town. One day Georges and Fred discover that Vincent has been seeing another woman on the side without telling either of them. The news sends shock waves through their little worlds, and both wonder how Vincent’s wife would react if she knew about her husband’s affair. Argentinian film INTIMATE STORIES tells just that, a trio of intimate stories. Thousands of miles south of Buenos Aires, three characters travel the breathtaking yet lonely routes of Southern Patagonia. Don Justo, an 80-year-old retiree looking for his missing dog, hitchhikes while looking for peace of mind before his death. Roberto, a middle-aged salesman, makes the same journey in his old car, with a plan to woo the young widowed woman he is delivering a cake to. Lastly, Maria, a poor young woman, takes public transportation with her baby girl to pick up a TV contest prize.
Finally, opening at the West Newton Cinema and the Harvard Square Loew’s is SAVING FACE, a tale that combines Chinese-American customs and the generational differences with the coming out story of a young woman working as a doctor. Joan Chen stars as a traditional mother dealing with the fact that her daughter is a lesbian, while facing the disapproval of her father for being unwed and pregnant!
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, June 10 – 16.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Area Theatrical Premiere!
Tell Them Who You Are
Medium Cool (Sat. & Sun.) Double Feature!
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Howl’s Moving Castle
Tell Them Who You Are
Born into Brothels (Sat. & Sun., Wed.)
Thrilling 3D Film Festival
House of Wax (Fri. & Tue.)
Dial M for Murder (Sat. & Mon.)
3D Shorts (Sat. & Sun.)
Kiss Me Kate (Sun.)
The Mad Magician (Tue.)
Gorilla at Large (Wed.)
Miss Sadie Thompson (Wed.)
It Came from Outer Space (Thu.)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Thu.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Millions
FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Bombay Cinema Presents
Bunti Aur Babli
Parineeta
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Matters of Life and Death: The Films of Bruno Ganz
The Left-Handed Woman (Fri.)
Nosferatu (Fri.)
In the White City (Sat. & Tue.)
The Inventor (Sat. & Mon.)
The Boys from Brazil (Sun.)
Circle of Deceit (Mon. & Tue.)
Wings of Desire (Wed.)
Faraway So Close (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Mad Hot Ballroom
Layer Cake
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Howl’s Moving Castle
Happily Ever After
Intimate Stories
Rock School
Brothers
Layer Cake
The Holy Girl
Kung Fu Hustle (ineligible)
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
High Tension
Mad Hot Ballroom
Ladies in Lavender
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
Layer Cake
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
Saving Face
Crash (ineligible)
Mad Hot Ballroom
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Birds on Film
Vodka Lemon (Sat.)
Kira Muratova Retrospective
Getting to Know the Big Wide World (Sat.)
Three Stories (Sun.)
Art of Film
Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (Sun.)
Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores and More
Paper Snow (Sun.)
The Rashevski’s Tango (Thu.)
Cinema Tropical
La Cienaga (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Schultze Gets the Blues
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Saving Face
The Holy Girl
Turtles Can Fly
Dear Frankie
Look at Me
Walk on Water
Paper Clips
COMING SOON!
June Events from The Boston Jewish Film Festival
June 9 and June 12: The Boston Jewish Film Festival ENCORE AND MORE series continues at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) this week with PAPER SNOW, from Russian-Israeli directing team Lina and Slava Chaplin (A TRUMPET IN THE WADI)
Thu, Jun 9, 8:10 pm
Sun, Jun 12, 4 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston Jewish Film Festival ENCORE AND MORE PAPER SNOW Lina and Slava Chaplin (Israel, 2003, 98 min.).
The Russian-Israeli directing team known for A TRUMPET IN THE WADI directs this account of the wildly tempestuous affair between the Russian-born actress Hanna Rovina and her younger lover, Alexander Penn, a brilliant, self-destructive poet. Rovina was a founding member of the Russian theater troupe that ultimately became Habimah, Israel’s national theater company. She established herself as Israel’s leading actress, the “Queen of the Jews,” and her image as Leah’le in the Habima production of THE DYBBUK has become a symbol of Jewish and Israeli theater. The Chaplins evoke the feel of bohemian Tel Aviv in the 1930s when actors, novelists, painters, and poets began creating a caf’ociety and struggled to construct a new Hebrew culture of their own. In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Upcoming ENCORE AND MORE screenings:
THE RASHEVSKI’S TANGO, June 16 – 25
OR (MY TREASURE), June 23 ‘ July 3
ALILA, June 26, July 3
TO TAKE A WIFE, June 26, June 30
LATE MARRIAGE, June 30, July 2
THE NINTH DAY,’June 30 -‘July 7
For details, see the BJFF website.
June 19 ‘ August 7: If you’re traveling to Martha’s Vineyard this summer, don’t miss The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center Presents The Boston Jewish Film Festival,’a Sunday night summer film series beginning June 19.
June 24 ‘ 29: KAFKA GOES TO THE MOVIES. We are pleased to co-present this series of films at the Harvard Film Archive exploring the many attempts to adapt Kafka’s writing for the screen and to chronicle the relationship between the acclaimed writer and film.’The series includes Valerie Fokin’s METAMORPHOSIS, which was a hit in the 2003 Boston Jewish Film Festival.
Films include:
June 24 (Friday) 7 pm and June 26 (Sunday) 9:15 pm FRANZ KAFKA Directed by Piotr DumPoland 1992, 16mm, b/w, 15 min.
THE HUNGER ARTIST Directed by Tom Gibbons, US 2002, 16mm, color, 16 min.
KAFKA GOES TO THE MOVIES Directed by Hanns Zischler, France/Germany 2002, video, 54 min.
June 24 (Friday) 9 pm and June 26 (Sunday) 7 pm THE TRIAL Directed by Orson Welles, France/ Italy/ West Germany 1962,
35 mm, b/w, 118 min.
June 25 (Saturday) 7 pm and June 27 (Monday) 7 pm THE METAMORPHOSIS OF MR. SAMSA Directed by Caroline Leaf, Canada 1977, video, color, 10 min.
METAMORPHOSIS Directed by Valeri Fokin, Russia 2002, 35mm, color, 90 min. (Screened in BJFF 2003)
June 28 (Tuesday) 7 pm and June 29 (Wednesday) 9 pm CLASS RELATIONS (AKA AMERIKA) Directed by Jean-Marie Straub, Dani’ Huillet, France/ West Germany, 1984, 35 mm, b/w, 126 min.
June 28 (Tuesday) 7 pm and June 29 (Wednesday) 9:15 pm LABYRINTH Directed by Jaromil Jires, Czechoslovakia 1991, 35mm, color, 90 min.
This program is presented in collaboration with the American Repertory Theatre. The A.R.T. presentsAMERIKA, a production based on the novel by Franz Kafka, which runs June 18-July 10, 2005.
Details on all events can be found at http://www.bjff.org/events
June 19 ‘ August 7
The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center Presents The Boston Jewish Film Festival
The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center (MVHC) Summer Institute once again presents a summer series of films curated by The Boston Jewish Film Festival.’Films screen each Sunday night at 7:30pm.
Sunday, June 19 at 7:30pm
THE RASHEVSKI’S TANGO
Sunday, June 26 at 7:30pm
WATERMARKS
Guest Speaker: Greta Stanton, one of the swimmers featured in WATERMARKS
Sunday, July 3 at 7:30pm
TUNANOODA
BAR MITZVAH BOY
Sunday, July 10 at 7:30pm
ALL I’VE GOT
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Sunday, July 17 at 7:30pm
BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI
Sunday, July 24 at 7:30pm
THE DANISH SOLUTION: THE RESCUE OF THE JEWS IN DENMARK BEHIND ENEMY LINES
Sunday, July 31 at 7:30pm
WALK ON WATER
Sunday, August 7 at 7:30pm
PAPER CLIPS
Guest Speakers: Joe Fab, writer and co-director, PAPER CLIPS Linda Hooper, Principal, Whitwell Middle School, who is featured in film
For details, see http://www.bjff.org/events/?id= 303
Michael Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President