Hello Everyone,
There are so many great films playing in Boston this week that it’s very difficult to chose which one to see on Monday night. For a change of pace that’s sure to be a lot of fun, we’ll be heading to the Kendall Square Cinema for the 7:10 screening of THE ARISTOCRATS. Comedians of all generations tackle the same dirty joke in what turns out to be an examination of the varied comedy styles in the world today.
Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closets friends’who happen to be some of the biggest names in show business (George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Carey, Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser, Sarah Silverman, etc.)’to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world’s dirtiest joke, an old burlesque routine too extreme to be performed in public. One of the smash hits of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, this star-studded comedy extravaganza is sure to stretch the limits of its audience’particularly how loud and long they can laugh!
DIRECTOR: Paul Provenza
CAST: Chris Albrecht, Jason Alexander, Hank Azaria, Steven Banks, Shelley Berman, Lewis Black, David Brenner, Mario Cantone, Drew Carey, George Carlin, Mark Cohen, Billy Connolly, Tim Conway, Pat Cooper, Wayne Cotter, Andy Dick, Frank DiGiacomo, Phyllis Diller, Susie Essman, Carrie Fisher, Joe Franklin, Mike George, Todd Glass, Whoopi Goldberg, Judy Gold, Eddie Gorodetsky, Gilbert Gottfried, Dana Gould, Allan Havey, Eric Idle, Dom Irrera, Eddie Izzard, Richard Jeni, Penn Jillette, Jake Johannsen, Alan Kirschenbaum, Jay Kogen, Sue Kolinsky, Paul Krassner, Cathy Ladman, Lisa Lampanelli, Richard Lewis, Wendy Liebman, Bill Maher, Howie Mandel, Merrill Markoe, Jay Marshall, Jackie Martling, Chuck McCann, Michael McKean, Eric Mead, Larry Miller, Owen Morse, Martin Mull, Kevin Nealon, Taylor Negron, Rick Overton, Gary Owens, Trey Parker, Otto Peterson, Emo Philips, Peter Pitofsky, Kevin Pollak, Paul Reiser, Andy Richter, Don Rickles, Chris Rock, Gregg Rogell, Jeffrey Ross, Jon Ross, Rita Rudner, Bob Saget, T. Sean Shannon, Harry Shearer, Sarah Silverman, Bobby Slayton, Dick Smothers, Tom Smothers, Carrie Snow, Doug Stanhope
But if you can only see a single film this week, and you enjoy Asian films like Tsai Ming Liang’s WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? then you must head to the Kendall Square Cinema to see TONY TAKITANI. This gorgeous adaptaion of a Haruki Murakami short story is gorgeously elegant, powerfully moving, and a true work of art. Please take some time out of your busy schedule to see this film during it’s one week run.
And if you feel like seeing several movies this week, you might also want to check out Werner Herzog’s quirky doc GRIZZLY MAN, Jim Jarmusch’s new smash indie hit BROKEN FLOWERS, or a new family drama called JUNEBUG. And if animation is your bag, do check out the 2nd Annual Animation Bash playing this weekend at both the Brattle and the Coolidge Corner Theatres.
And the fun doesn’t stop yet! This week marks the kickoff of the 7th Annual Roxbury Film Festival! After a private opening reception and screening of the film THE VISIT on Wednesday night at the the Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall, (gold pass holders only) the public opening night for the festival kicks off on Thursday night with a conversation with Billy Dee Williams at the Tower Auditorium at the Massachusetts College of Art followed by the opening night film, CONSTELLATION at the Museum of Fine Arts. Check out the website for an exciting weekend of film at the Roxbury Film Festival. This is the kind of week that indie film fans dream about!
That’s it for this week. (Isn’t it enough?)
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, August 12 – 18.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
2nd Annual New England Animation Bash!
Competition Show (Fri. – Mon.)
The Place Promised in Our Earlier Days (Fri.)
Gumby Superstar! (Sat.)
Corporate Cartoons (Sat.)
An Evening with Emily Hubley (Sat.)
RISD Spotlight (Sat. & Sun.)
The Iron Giant (Sun. & Mon.)
Avoid Eye Contact (Sun.)
Summer of Rock! Celebrating 50 Years of Rock & Roll On Screen. Double Feature!
Dazed & Confused (Tue. & Wed.)
School of Rock (Tue. & Wed.)
Recent Raves!
Oldboy (Thu.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Broken Flowers
Murderball
March of the Penguins
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Fri. – Sun. & Tue. – Thu.)
Up for Grabs (Fri. – Sun. & Tue. – Thu.)
New England Animation Bash!
Avoid Eye Contact (Fri.)
Offensive Animatnion (Fri.)
Competition Show (Sat. & Sun.)
Cartoons Too Violent for Children (Sat.)
Pick a Winner (Sun.)
Special Event
Company One and Coolidge Corner Theatre Benefit Auction (Mon.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Howl’s Moving Castle
Mad Hot Ballroom
Crash (ineligible)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Anything Goes: Film within a Film
The Spirit of the Beehive (Fri.)
Frankenstein (Fri.)
Anything Goes: Mexico
Que Viva Mexico! (Sat. & Mon.)
Santa Sangre (Sat. & Mon.)
Anything Goes: Dysfunctional Families
Fists in the Pocket (Sun.)
Les Enfants Terribles (Sun.)
Anything Goes: Nuns
Mother Joan of the Angels (Tue.)
Th’se (Tue.)
Anything Goes: The Brothers Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
A Nest of Gentry (Wed.)
Slave of Love (Wed.)
Anything Goes: King Lear
King Lear (Brook) (Thu.)
King Lear (Kozintsev) (Thu.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
March of the Penguins
Mad Hot Ballroom
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Tony Takitami
Grizzly Man
Junebug
The Aristocrats
The Edukators
Saint Ralph
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Happy Endings
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Last Days
Junebug
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Murderball
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
The Great Raid
Broken Flowers
March of the Penguins
The Last Day
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sex and Cinema
Antares (Fri. – Mon.)
Cinema Tropical
The Middle of the World (Fri. & Sat.)
Italian Cinema Today
After Midnight (Sat.)
My Mother’s Smile (Sat.)
New England Film Arts Presents:
Nothing Like Dreaming (Sat., Sun. & Thu.)
Roxbury Film Festival
Constellation (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Yes
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!
August Events from The Boston Jewish Film Festival
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