Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies & Indie Film Round-Up, July 1 – 7

Hey there Everyone!

So the Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies hasn’t be doing so well this summer. We’re looking at the 4th of July as our next potential movie date, and that just seems like a bad idea logistically. Of course, you know, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be out there seeing lots of movies! Did anyone catch THE HEIGHTS last week? I’d love a little review for the website. This week, on no particular day, there are many choices for you to see, and I am going to dispense with my usual selection of a single film for the week and give you a couple of suggestions.

Here’s a film you don’t want to miss, and you’ve only got a few more chances. OR (MY TREASURE) is part of the Boston Jewish Film Festival’s Encores and More program finishing up its run at the Museum of Fine Arts. During its final weekend, this series focuses on the talents of Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz, whose work as an actress and director reach powerful levels. OR (MY TREASURE) is not a feel good movie; it’s one of those bleak foreign films that I live for. Or is a high school girl who works hard, is popular with the boys and takes care of her mother, Ruthie… who works as a prostitute. Or does everything she can to get her mother to change careers while struggling to make ends meet for the household. Elkabetz’ Ruthie is frustrating and sympathetic. OR (MY TREASURE) plays the Museum of Fine Arts Friday – Sunday. Do try to catch it.

Sally Potter’s latest films YES has been garnering a lot of attention latetly, delighting some viewers and confounding others. YES is not an easy film, but it’s bold and sometimes succesful. Joan Allen stars as a succesful scientist who enters into an affair with a chef at a restaurant where she is attending a special dinner event. Curiously, the film is spoken entirely in verse (with some actors handling this task better than others). What superficially appears to be a film about male/female relationships is actually a comment on our global relationships in this
post 9/11 world. Definitely worth the price of a movie ticket, go out and see for yourself if YES gets a “yes” or a “no.”

Finally, an alert for Caitlin! The Harvard Film Archive is playing Carlos Saura’s CRIA CUERVOS on Wednesday night as part of its Directors series. CRIA CUERVOS ranked #66 on the Chlotrudis Society’s Top 100 Foreign-Language Films list, largely due to the campaigning of one member who holds it as one of her favorites. Here’s a rare opportunity to see the film on the big screen!

That’s it for this week. Enjoy your holiday weekend, and don’t forget the movies!

Playing this week, July 1 – 7.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Celebrating James Dean!
Giant (Fri. – Sun.)
East of Eden (Fri. – Sun.)
Rebel Without a Cause (Fri. – Sun.)
New 35 mm Print!
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Mon. & Tue.)
Special Screening! In Celebration of the Dalai Lama’s Birthday! Presented in association with The Tibet Society of Boston!
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
Free Preview Screening! Producer Keith Schieron Will Introduce!
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Free Preview Screening!
Punk: Attitude

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
March of the Penguins
Howl’s Moving Castle
Mad Hot Ballroom
Shake Hands with the Devil
Anya in and out of Focus
Midnite Madness
Bruce “Don’t Call Me Ash” Campbell’s Man with the Screaming Brain (Fri. & Sat.)
A Don Henley (?) rock opera with DIRTY PROJECTORS and WIND-UP BIRD in Concert! (Fri.)
Deep Throat (Sat.)
Brookline Booksmith presents
Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig Book Reading and our favorite episodes (Wed.)

FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Layer Cake
Kung Fu Hustle (ineligible) (Sun. – Wed.)

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Directors: King Video
Our Daily Bread (Fri. & Sun.)
Cynara (Fri. & Sun.)
Directors: Ren’lair
‘nous la libert’i> (Sat. & Mon.)
Under the Roofs of Paris (Sat. & Mon.)
Directors: Grigori Chukhrai
Ballad of a Soldier (Tue.)
The Forty-First (Tue.)
Directors: Carlos Saura
Cria Cuervos (Wed.)
The Hunt (Wed.)
Directors: Jacques Tourneur
Nightfall (Thu.)
Great Day in the Morning (Thu.)