Hello Everyone,
Chlotrudis is giving you a choice next Monday, largely because the film that I really wants to see may not be to everyone’s taste. For those of you interested, come to the Brattle Theatre for the 7:00 screening of GODZILLA: FINAL WARS. That’s right, allegedly the last Godzilla movie to come out of Japan. This one opens on Friday, so if you can’t wait until Monday, feel free to catch it ahead of time. If you haven’t seen a Godzilla movie on the big screen, this is your chance!
Godzilla: Final Wars
(2004) dir Ryuhei Kitamura w/Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Akira Takarada, and Kane Kosugi [124 min]
“After half a century of Godzilla films, Toho decided the time had come to give the monster an extended vacation’ but he would be sent off with a bang. To craft a Godzilla film unlike any seen before, executive producer Shogo Tomiyama recruited 35 year-old director Ryuhei Kitamura, who was known for his kinetic action films. Working with writers Wataru Mimura and Isao Kiriyama, Tomiyama and Kitamura crafted an ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ tale combining elements of many of Toho’s most popular classic monster movies, Hong Kong martial arts, and American blockbusters to create GODZILLA FINAL WARS’ As for the real stars of GODZILLA FINAL WARS; the film features a stunning fifteen giant monsters. In addition to Godzilla, the lineup includes Rodan, Mothra, Gigan, Angilas, Minya, Manda, King Caesar, Ebirah, Kamakiras, Kumonga, a cameo by Hedorah, the American Godzilla (rechristened Zilla), and new version of King Ghidorah called Keizer Ghidorah, and the new mysterious alien called Monster X.” ‘ Godzilla expert, Keith Aiken
If the Godzilla stuff just doesn’t do it for you, you may want to check out the new German film, THE EDUKATORS at the Kendall Square Theatre. I caught this well-written satire in P-Town, and director Hans Weingartner really capitalizes on the excitement and style of the new German cinema in the tradition of RUN, LOLA, RUN, but puts his own unique political spin on this entertaining story. Some of you may be tempted to rush to the new Jim Jarmusch film, BROKEN FLOWERS, starring Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Ruth Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, and Julie Delpy, but if you can wait a week, this will probably be the Monday Night Movie of the week NEXT week. Either way, you won’t want to miss it.
My apologies for the missing entries this week. I had to put the page up early due to a vacation trip to the Poconos, and not all of the theatres have announced their line ups for next week. The full listing will be back next week.
That’s it for this week.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, August 5 – 11.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Exclusive Area Premiere!
Godzilla: Final Wars(Fri. – Mon.)
Summer of Rock! Celebrating 50 Years of Rock & Roll On Screen. Double Feature!
Breakfast Club (Tue.)
Repo Man (Tue.)
Big Time (Wed.)
Mystery Train (Wed.)
Recent Raves!
Funny Ha Ha (Thu.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Broken Flowers
Murderball
March of the Penguins
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Actors: Martin and Lewis
Jumping Jacks (Fri.)
The Stooge (Fri.)
Actors: Simone Signoret
La Ronde (Sat.)
Th’se Raquin (Sat.)
Actors: Charles Laughton
Hobson’s Choice (Sun.)
Sidewalks of London (Sun.)
Actors: Wendy Hiller
I Know Where I’m Going (Mon.)
Outcasts of the Island (Mon.)
Actors: Alistair Sim
An Inspector Calls (Tue.)
The Belles of St. Trinian’s (Tue.)
Anything Goes: Film within a Film
Frankenstein (Wed.)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Wed.)
Anything Goes: Dysfunctional Families
Les Enfants Terribles (Thu.)
Fists in the Pocket (Thu.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
March of the Penguins
Mad Hot Ballroom
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
The Edukators
The Year of the Yao
Saint Ralph
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Happy Endings
Saraband
Elevator to the Gallows
Rize
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Howl’s Moving Castle
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
November
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Murderball
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
Broken Flowers
Murderball
March of the Penguins
Mad Hot Ballroom
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Italian Cinema Today
My Mother’s Smile (Fri. – Sun. & Thu.)
After Midnight (Fri. – Sun. & Thu.)
Art on Film
Edvard Munch (Sat. & Sun.)
New England Film Arts Presents:
Nothing Like Dreaming (Thu.)
Sex and Cinema
Antares (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
My Summer of Love
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Saint Ralph
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
The Beautiful Country
Paper Clips
My Summer of Love
Ladies in Lavender
Walk on Water
COMING SOON!
July Events from The Boston Jewish Film Festival
Two screenings remain in the ‘Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center Summer Institute Presents The Boston Jewish Film Festival’ series: This week, don’t miss the Israeli hit feature Walk on Water. Sunday, August 7, catch the moving documentary PAPER CLIPS with special guests filmmaker Joe Fab and Whitwell, Tennessee Middle School Principal Linda Hooper (featured in the film).
Coming in August: we join with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to offer you one last opportunity to catch last year’s sold-out Closing Night Feature, LOST EMBRACE.
Details follow below. For more information on all upcoming events, please visit http://www.bjff.org/events
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The Summer Institute at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center film series continues:
Final screening next week:
Sunday, August 7 at 7:30pm
PAPER CLIPS
With Special Guest Speakers: Joe Fab, writer and co-director, PAPER CLIPS; Linda Hooper, Principal, Whitwell Middle School, who is featured in the film; and Kaj Wilson: Artistic Director, Boston Jewish Film Festival
PAPER CLIPS is a moving documentary about a inspired project that took place in what might seem the most unlikely of places: the rural mountain community of Whitwell, Tennessee, population 1600. In a quest to honor the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, the students of Whitwell Middle School collected a paper clip for each life lost in the tragedy. Under the charismatic leadership of the school’s principal Linda Hooper, dedicated teachers and staff, the children’s Holocaust memorial has become an ongoing and powerful testament to the ecumenical spirit: ‘Changing the World’One Class at a Time.’ In English.
For details, see http://www.bjff.org/events/?id= 303
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Coming soon:
LOST EMBRACE returns to the Museum of Fine Arts for two screenings
The Boston Jewish Film Festival co-presents a return two-screening engagement of last year’s popular Festival Closing Night Feature, LOST
EMBRACE at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. August 21 at 1pm and August 25 at 8pm.
LOST EMBRACE
Daniel Burman, Argentina, 2004
99 min., 35 mm, Spanish w/subtitles
August 21 at 1pm
August 25 at 8pm
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President