Hey there Everyone!
It’s my third and final Monday in June that I will be unable to attend the Chlotrudis Monday Night Movie of the Week (I’ll be at a Conference in Chicago!) There are several new movies opening that you should try to catch. For Monday night, for those interested, I recommend THE HEIGHTS, winner of the Audience Award feature film at last week’s Provincetown International Film Festival. This Merchant/Ivory production stars Glenn Close, James Marsden and Elizabeth Banks. Chlotrudis members can meet for the 7:00 p.m. screening at the Kendall Square Cinema.
Isabel (Elizabeth Banks), a New York photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan (James Marsden). Isabel’s mother Diana (Glenn Close) learns that her husband has a new lover, and begins to rethink her life choices and open marriage. When Diana’s and Isabel’s paths cross with Alec (Jesse Bradford) and Peter (John Light), the connections between the characters are revealed, and all must choose what kind of lives they want before the sun comes up the next day. Produced by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory.
Director: Chris Terrio
Cast: Chandler Williams, Bess Wohl, Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford, Daniel Neiden, Tom Lennon, Matt Davis, John Light, Isabella Rossellini, Susan Malick, Rachel Siegel, Katie Kreisler, Phil Tabor
Another exciting opportunity for Chlotrudis members takes place on Friday or Saturday evening at the Kendall Square Cinema. Don’t miss Greg Araki’s new film MYSTERIOUS SKIN. Scott Heim, author of the novel upon which the film was based, has told us that he will be present at the 7:25 screenings on Friday and Saturday. He will introduce the film and be on hand afterward for a Q&A. He’s a very friendly guy who we met in Provincetown. If you attend either of the screenings for this disturbing yet beautiful film, please say hello afterwards and tell him you’re a Chlotrudis member. He would love to meet you.
Plagued by endless nightmares, 18-year-old Brian (Brady Corbet, THIRTEEN) believes he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Manic) is the ultimate beautiful outsider and uses his sexual charm as a teenage hustler. Neil’s pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian’s voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil’and together they help each other unlock the dark secrets of their pasts. Co-starring Elisabeth Shue (LEAVING LAS VEGAS). Written and directed by Gregg Araki (THE DOOM GENERATION, THE LIVING END), based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim.
Director: Gregg Araki
Cast: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeffrey Licon, Lisa Long, Bill Sage, George Webster, Chase Ellison, Richard Riehle, Billy Drago, Kelly Kruger
There are some really top notch films playing this week at the Museum of Fine Arts this week as part of the Boston Jewish Film Festival’s Encores & More series. Don’t miss THE RASHEVSKI’S TANGO and OR (MY TREASURE) both featured as part of this special BJFF presentation. Other new films opening at the Kendall include APR’ VOUS, starring Chlotrudis favorite Daniel Auteuil, and the magnificentlo shot DEEP BLUE. Another film worth catching is MY SUMMER OF LOVE which several Chlotrudis members caught a couple of weeks ago at a Sneak Preview at the MFA.
See you at the movies (when I finally get back on track in July!
Playing this week, June 10 – 16.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Celebrating James Dean!
East of Eden
Rebel Without a Cause
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Howl’s Moving Castle
Mad Hot Ballroom
Stolen Childhood
Born into Brothels
The A/V Geeks
Blackboard Bungle (Fri.)
Kids & Kritters (Sat.)
Midnite Madness
Deep Throat (Fri. & Sat.)
Work-in-Progress screening/fundraiser
“Some Kind Of Funny Porto Rican?”: A Cape Verdean American Story (Sun.)
Summertime Blues Movies with live music!
Miles Electric: a Different Kind of Blue (Mon.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Millions
FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Layer Cake
Kung Fu Hustle (ineligible) (Sun. – Wed.)
Bombay Cinema Presents
Bunti Aur Babli (Fri. – Sun.)
Parineeta (Fri. – Sun.)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Kafka Goes to the Movies
Franz Kafka, The Hunger Artist, and Kafka Goes to the Movies (Fri. & Sun.)
The Trial (Fri. & Sun.)
The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa and Metamorphosis (Sat. & Mon.)
K (Sat. & Mon.)
Class Relations (Tue. & Wed.)
Labyrinth (Tue. & Wed.)
Wings of Desire (Wed.)
Faraway So Close (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Howl’s Moving Castle
Mad Hot Ballroom
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
The Heights
Mysterious Skin
Apr’Vous
The Man Who Copied
My Summer of Love
Deep Blue
Howl’s Moving Castle
Happily Ever After
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
The Heights
Howl’s Moving Castle
Happily Ever After
Mad Hot Ballroom
Ladies in Lavender
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
Saving Face
Crash (ineligible)
Mad Hot Ballroom
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores and More
The Rashevski’s Tango (Fri. & Sat.)
Or (My Treasure) (Fri. – Sun.)
Alila (Sun.)
To Take a Wife (Sun. & Thu.)
Late Marriage (Thu.)
The Ninth Day (Thu.)
Buddhist Cinema
Travellers & Magicians (Sat.)
Scandalous Author on Film
Writer of O (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Winter Solstice
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Apr’Vous
The Deal
Crash (ineligible)
Saving Face
The Holy Girl
Turtles Can Fly
Walk on Water
Paper Clips
COMING SOON!
June Events from The Boston Jewish Film Festival
The Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encore and More continues at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with three more chances to see THE RASHEVSKI’S TANGO this weekend, and a tribute to beautiful and accomplished Israeli actress/director Ronit Elkabetz beginning Thursday
The 2004 Boston Jewish Film Festival Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary, Yaron Zilberman’s WATERMARKS, screens at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center Sunday, June 26, with special guest swimmer Greta Stanton
KAFKA GOES TO THE MOVIES this weekend at the Harvard Film Archive, including Valerie Fokin’s METAMORPHOSIS, a hit in the 2003 Boston Jewish Film Festival.
Details follow below.
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ENCORE AND MORE: THE RASHEVSKI’S TANGO
Three screenings remain of THE RASHEVSKI’S TANGO, which recently received a 3 star review from the BOSTON GLOBE’s Wesley Morris (see
http://www.bjff.org/events/?id=298 for a full film description):
Thu, Jun 23, 2:20 pm
Fri, Jun 24, 6 pm
Sat, Jun 25, 1:15 pm
All screenings are at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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ENCORE AND MORE: TRIBUTE TO ISRAELI ACTRESS/DIRECTOR RONIT ELKABETZ
The Boston Jewish Film Festival is pleased to begin a four-film tribute to powerhouse Israeli actress/director Ronit Elkabetz this week, as part of our ‘The Boston Jewish Film Festival: ENCORES AND MORE’ series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA).
Born in Haifa to religious Moroccan immigrants in a home where Arabic, Hebrew, and French were spoken, Elkabetz began acting by chance. Now, at forty, she has a body of work behind her that reflects independent choices and a wide range of parts. Last year decidedly belonged to Elkabetz, as OR (MY TREASURE), in which she stars, won the coveted Camera d’Or given to a film by a new filmmaker (Keren Yedaya), and as she, herself became a director, co-directing TO TAKE A WIFE with her brother, Shlomi.
This tribute includes three Boston Premieres: the Cannes-winner OR, ALILA by Amos Gitai, and TO TAKE A WIFE, co-directed by Ronit. We also include a return engagement ofDover Kosashvili’s 2001 hit LATE MARRIAGE, starring WALK ON WATER’S Lior Ashkenazi
Tickets: $9 general admission; $8 seniors, students, members of the MFA and Boston Jewish Film Festival. To purchase tickets in advance with a credit card, call 617.369.3306 or visit www.mfa.org/film. No phone orders for same-day screenings.
OR (MY TREASURE) . As Ruthie, a prostitute and mother of a teenage girl, Elkabetz shares the screen with Dana Ivgy as Or, who struggles against the odds to take care of them both.
Thu, Jun 23, 8:10 pm
Fri, Jun 24, 8, pm
Sat, Jun 25, 3:30 pm
Sun, Jun 26, 1:30 pm
Fri, Jul 1, 4:45 pm
Sat, Jul 2, 10:30 am
Sun, Jul 3, 3:30 pm
ALILA. Here, Elkabetz does a comic turn as a Sephardic policewoman, living in a crazy Tel Aviv apartment complex under serious renovation. This film also offers Boston audiences a good look at Hanna Laslo, winner of this year’s Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance in another film by Amos Gitai.
Sun, Jun 26, 11 am
Sun, Jul 3, 1 pm
TO TAKE A WIFE Elkabetz shares her first directing credit with her brother Shlomi (this is also his first film); in a story inspired by their parents’ marriage.
Sun, Jun 26, 3:45 pm
Thu, Jun 30, 6:15 pm
LATE MARRIAGE A strong, sexy performance by Elkabetz as the divorced woman that bachelor Zaza (WALK ON WATER’s Lior Askenazi) cannot find the courage to marry against his Georgian Jewish parents’ wishes.
Thu, Jun 30, 4:15 pm
Sat, Jul 2, 12:30 pm
For full film descriptions and other films in the Encore and More series, please see http://www.bjff.org/events/?id=298
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2004 Audience Award Winning Documentary, WATERMARKS, screens on Martha’s Vineyard
Sunday, June 26, 7:30pm
WATERMARKS
By Yaron Zilberman
Guest Speaker: Greta Stanton, one of the champion swimmers featured in the film
The story of seven remarkable Jewish women athletes: Austrian national swimming champions and members of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Founded in 1909 in response to the Aryan Paragraph banning Jewish athletes from Austrian sports clubs, Hakoah quickly grew into one of Europe’s largest athletic clubs. In the 1930s, its women’s swimming team dominated the Austrian national competitions. The members fled the country when Hitler annexed Austria in 1938 and Nazis shut down the club. Today the women are in their 80s and scattered around the world.
Screenings take place at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Center Street in Vineyard Haven. Doors open at 6:45. Admission is $10. For more information, please check online at www.mvhc.us/summer_institute.htm or call (508) 693-0745.
Next up in this series:
Sunday, July 3 at 7:30pm
THE BAR MITZVAH BOY
preceded by the animated short TUNANOODA
For details, see http://www.bjff.org/events/?id= 303
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KAFKA GOES TO THE MOVIES ‘ series begins Thursday June 24 ‘ 29 Harvard Film Archive
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. presents AMERIKA, a production based on the novel by Franz Kafka, which runs June 18-July 10, 2005.
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President