Hello Everyone,
How ironic that one of the last Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies films that I will see before heading off to Toronto is a film that I missed at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and has just now been released. Join us for the 8:10 screening of Jia Zhangke’s THE WORLD at the Kendall Square Cinema. Rest up for this one as it starts a little later than usual, but it also means we can take our time having dinner! We’ll have a relaxed evening of dining at Doyle’s Irish Pub beginning at 6 p.m. Plenty of time to eat and chat before the film!
A beautiful young dancer (Zhao Tao) and her security-guard boyfriend (Cheng Taisheng) work at World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the Bejing suburbs. Lavish shows are performed daily amongst replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, St. Mark’s Square, Big Ben and the Pyramids. Working beyond the theme park kitsch, acclaimed filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s (Unknown Pleasures) funniest, most inventive film to date casts a compassionate eye on the daily loves, friendships and desperate dreams of these provincial workers. (Fully subtitled)
Director: Jia Zhangke
Cast: Chen Taisheng, Jiang Zhong-wei, Jing Jue, Wang Yi-qun, Zhao Tao
If ever there was a classic films to see at the Brattle, Bernardo Bertollucci’s THE CONFORMIST is the one. It has long been unavailable on video or DVD, and the Brattle is playing it all next week! I will be doing my best to catch that some time this week, so watch your e-mail. Or go when you get a chance! It comes in at #141 on the Chlotrudis 200 for 2000 list, and that’s with limited availability!
Finally, having just finished Wong Kar Wai’s DAYS OF BEING WILD on DVD and loving it, I must remind you again to catch 2046 at the Kendall Square Cinema while it’s there! Remember, Wong Kar Wai’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE tied for Best Movie several years ago, and 2046 is a sequel. Don’t you want to revisit that world?
That’s it for this week.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, August 26 – September 1.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Special Engagement
The Conformist
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Broken Flowers
Murderball
March of the Penguins
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Midnite Movies!
Shaft (Fri. & Sat.)
SCUL: Operation Super Posi (Fri.)
An Evening with PUPPETMASTER JAKE (Sat.)
Cedlebrating the 70’s
The French Connection (Mon.)
Special One Year Anniversary Show
THE BEST OF OPEN SCREEN (Tue.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Mad Hot Ballroom
Crash (ineligible)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Screenings Resume September 9.
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Grizzly Man
Broken Flowers
March of the Penguins
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Bomb the System
The World
2046
Grizzly Man
Junebug
The Aristocrats
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
2046
Asylum
Broken Flowers
Junebug
Murderball
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
The Brothers Grimm
Asylum
Broken Flowers
March of the Penguins
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Music on Film
Brass on Fire (Fri. & Sat.)
M’ Cubana (Sat.)
Paraiso (Sun.)
Accordion Tribe (Wed.)
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Thu.)
Croation Cinema
Witnesses (Fri. – Sun. & Wed.)
Cinema India
Hari Om (Sun.)
The Films of Louis Malle
Elevator to the Gallows (Thu.)
Argentinian Cinema
Lost Embrace (Sun. & Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
March of the Penguins
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
The Aristocrats
My Date with Drew
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Finding Home
Grizzly Man
Paper Clips
My Summer of Love
Ladies in Lavender
Walk on Water
COMING SOON!
September Events from The Boston Jewish Film Festival
We are very pleased to copresent the classic films LACOMBE, LUCIEN’and’AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS’in a retrospective of films by Louis Malle, September 1-October 4 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge
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Two films in the LOUIS MALLE Retrospective presented by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge Sun, Sep 4, 3:15 pm
Wed, Sep 7, 7:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
LACOMBE, LUCIEN
Louis Malle
France/West Germany/Italy, 1974, 137 min., French with English subtitles
A film of moral force and clarity set during the German Occupation of France, LACOMBE, LUCIEN is a disquieting portrait of a young peasant, desperate for social acceptance, who is rejected by the Resistance for his lack of commitment. He turns to the Nazis, who find his casual amorality and instinct for survival useful and attractive. Soon an expert in hunting down and torturing people for the Gestapo, he falls in love with a Jewish girl, failing to recognize the moral dilemma this incurs. “A knockout. Without ever mentioning the subject of innocence and guilt, LACOMBE, LUCIEN , in its calm leisurely way, addresses it on a deeper level than any other movie I know” (Pauline Kael).
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Sun, Sep 11, 1:30 pm
Thu, Sep 15, 6 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS
Louis Malle
France, 1987, 104 min., French with English subtitles
Few films have more effectively revealed the day-to-day atmosphere of the Nazi occupation of France, the suspicions and fears and misplaced glances that can suddenly bring on disaster. This moving tour de force takes place in the winter of 1944 as Julien and his schoolmates prepare for a new semester at their Catholic boarding school. Three new students are admitted, and one of them, Jean, becomes Julien’s roommate. Circling each other warily, the boys become friends; Jean is bright and talented but seems to be harboring a secret. The eventual revelation of that secret’surely one of the most powerful sequences in Malle’s entire body of work’will not only rob Julien of his childhood but, the film implies, will decisively shape the man he will
eventually become.
Tickets are $8 for MFA and BJFF members, seniors, and students; $9 for general admission.’Tickets may be purchased in advance at 617-369-3306 or at www.mfa.org/film
For details on the full Malle Retrospectivve series, see www.mfa.org/film
Series co-presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, working with the Film Society at Lincoln Center. Special thanks to Sarah Finklea, Janus Films and Paul Ginsburg, Universal Films.
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President