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

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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.

YesSally 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.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
My Summer of Love
Howl’s Moving Castle
Mad Hot Ballroom

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Yes
The Heights
Mysterious Skin
Apr’Vous
The Man Who Copied
My Summer of Love
Rize
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Howl’s Moving Castle
Happily Ever After

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
The Heights
Howl’s Moving Castle
Happily Ever After
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins

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
Or (My Treasure) (Fri. – Sun.)
Late Marriage (Sat.)
The Ninth Day (Fri. – Sun. & Thu.)
Alila (Sun.)
Scandalous Author on Film
Writer of O (Fri., Sat., & Thu.)
Art on Film
Goya in Bordeaux
The 10th Annual Boston French Film Festival
36 Quai des Orf’es (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
House of D

West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Apr’Vous
My Summer of Love
Crash (ineligible)
Ladies in Lavender
Paper Clips
Walk on Water
Paper Clips

COMING SOON!

July Events from The Boston Jewish Film Festival

The Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encore and More continues at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with a tribute to beautiful and accomplished Israeli actress/director Ronit Elkabetz

Details follow below.’

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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.
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, Jul 3, 1 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.
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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Chlotrudis Award Winning Short Film, TUNANOODA, screens on Martha’s Vineyard

Sunday, July 3, 7:30pm

THE BAR MITZVAH BOY
preceded by the animated short TUNANOODA

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

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

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ON JUNE 29TH, SMALL ANGST FILMS PRESENTS THE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED CHLOTRUDIS AWARD-NOMINEE, MY FATHER, THE GENIUS, ON DVD ()

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MY FATHER, THE GENIUSBefore MY ARCHITECT was a twinkle in the theater goer’s eye, Lucia Small’s film, MY FATHER, THE GENIUS was tearing up the indie film festival circuit raking in prizes and praise for its exploration of the lesser-known green architect and familial firebrand, Glen Howard Small. His daughter, the filmmaker, Lucia Small, deftly explores the film’s subject with an ironic wit and probing inquisitiveness.

Now, small angst films announces the June 29, 2005 DVD release of the award-winning documentary film, MY FATHER, THE GENIUS (84 minutes). Packed with Special Features, the DVD includes Architect Small’s original 1970’s Super-8 mini-movie on the Biomorphic Biosphere, interviews with architects on the controversial Mr. Small, including the 2005 Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, a slideshow of Small’s architectural work with commentary, a Sundance Channel Aftereffect segment and a teaser for the long-awaited Genius II.

Director Lucia Small’s debut feature, MY FATHER, THE GENIUS premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival 2002 and took home two Grand Jury Prizes: “Best Documentary” and “Best Editing.” The film collected six top jury awards, including ones from the Newport International Film Festival and Atlanta Film Festival. MY FATHER, THE GENIUS made IndieWIRE’s list of Best Undistributed Films of 2002 and in 2003 was broadcast on the Sundance Channel’s DOCDay series. Most importantly, MY FATHER, THE GENIUS was nominated for a Best Documentary Chlotrudis Award at the 9th Annual Chlotrudis Awards.

MY FATHER, THE GENIUS tells the story of estranged father and visionary architect Glen Howard Small, who bequeaths to his daughter the task of writing his biography — while he is still alive. She answers instead with a film documenting the precarious path of his career and family life alongside his lifelong quest to “save the world through architecture.” At 31, Glen Small was a rising star. At 61, he seemed to barely escape financial ruin. The film looks at the difficult questions with an unflinching eye: What happens toward the end of a dreamer’s life when his dreams are still unfulfilled? How does a daughter navigate the delicate emotional tension of examining her father’s legacy while he’s still alive? Where and when will his statement of architectural genius finally be made – now or never? Ty Burr of the Boston Globe includes it as part of “the mini-genre of oedipal documentaries that probe and accuse and puzzle over the private legacies of public men.”

A recent review in the architectural arts webzine GutterCurbed.com reads, “Like a lot of you, we thought that Nathaniel Kahn’s MY ARCHITECT was the last word in children-in-search-of-their-lost-architect-fathers cinema. Not so! MY FATHER, THE GENIUS came out a year before the Kahn film (2002) and is now getting a second wind after a screening in New York’ Never has the architect’s ego been better captured in any medium.”

New footage from Genius II catches up with the indefatigable Small and features three recently completed national projects in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, where the architect has been living for the past three years. The Concha Acustica, the Rotunda Periodista, and the Fuente Colon Rotunda, were designed Glen Small’s signature concepts of universal beauty and sensuality in mind. For photos and stills of these projects, please visit Small Angst’s pressroom at www.myfatherthegenius.com/presskit.

The DVD is being self distributed by small angst films and is available for purchase at www.myfatherthegenius.com at individual, institutional and community group prices.

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Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies & Indie Film Round-Up, June 24 – 30 ()

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Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies & Indie Film Round-Up, June 24 – 30

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.

Mysterious Skin

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

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Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies & Indie Film Round-Up, June 10 – 16 ()

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Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies & Indie Film Round-Up, June 10 – 16

Hey there Everyone!

Several of the regular Monday Night Movie crowd are out-of-town next week, so I’m not going to select a specific film to go and see. I will however suggest people head out to see one of the many new films opening this week! If anyone wants to organize a Monday night outing, feel free to send a message out to chlotrudisboston@yahoogroups.com. Don’t fall behind, go see a movie!

Stop by the Coolidge Corner Theatre this week to catch the release of the long-awaited new anime film HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE. Academy Award-winning Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki (SPIRITED AWAY, PRINCESS MONONOKE) presents his latest animated adventure. Brimming with a blend of imagination, humor, action, and romance, HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE is based on the best selling children’s book by Diana Wynne Jones. The story starts when a young hat maker named Sophie finds herself literally swept off her feet by the handsome wizard Howl. Unfortunately, his attention angers the Wicked Witch of the Waste, who has her own designs on Howl, and jealously turns our heroine into a 90-year-old woman. Now Sophie must embark on an incredible quest to lift the curse. As a special treat, the Coolidge will be showing the Japanese language, subtitled version at the late show each night. HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE is also opening at the Kendall this week.

The Coolidge Corner Theatre also presents a very special series beginning on Friday: The 3D Film Festival! Pick up your 3D glasses at the box office and enjoy a collection of terrific films in 3D! HOUSE OF WAX, DIAL M FOR MURDER and KISS ME KATE are just some of the thrilling 3D films playing at the Coolidge this week.

Tell Them Who You AreThe Brattle Theatre presents the area theatrical premiere of TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE. Ostensibly a film about the legendary cinematographer and filmmaker, Haskell Wexler, this film by his son Mark, himself an award-winning documentarian, begins as a mostly reverent talking-head type biography featuring lots of interviews with movie royalty. While the beginning is fascinating and Wexler’s career serves as almost a definition of liberal filmmaking in the Sixties, by the end, the film has progressed through being an onscreen grudge match between subject and director, with each taking the other to task both in front of and behind the camera, into a moving reconciliation of sorts between this fascinating father and son. Catch this new documentary during its weeklong run at The Brattle. TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE is also opening at the Coolidge.

Happily Ever AfterThe Kendall also has a couple of new films from Europe this week. HAPPILY EVER AFTER is Yvan Attal’s follow-up to the charming MY WIFE IS AN ACTRESS from 2002, also starring Charlotte Gainsbourg. With humor and heart, writer/director Yvan Attal tells the story of three male friends in contemporary Paris. Vincent and Georges are both married and fathers; their friend Fred is still single and seemingly possesses one of the greatest little black books in town. One day Georges and Fred discover that Vincent has been seeing another woman on the side without telling either of them. The news sends shock waves through their little worlds, and both wonder how Vincent’s wife would react if she knew about her husband’s affair. Argentinian film INTIMATE STORIES tells just that, a trio of intimate stories. Thousands of miles south of Buenos Aires, three characters travel the breathtaking yet lonely routes of Southern Patagonia. Don Justo, an 80-year-old retiree looking for his missing dog, hitchhikes while looking for peace of mind before his death. Roberto, a middle-aged salesman, makes the same journey in his old car, with a plan to woo the young widowed woman he is delivering a cake to. Lastly, Maria, a poor young woman, takes public transportation with her baby girl to pick up a TV contest prize.

Finally, opening at the West Newton Cinema and the Harvard Square Loew’s is SAVING FACE, a tale that combines Chinese-American customs and the generational differences with the coming out story of a young woman working as a doctor. Joan Chen stars as a traditional mother dealing with the fact that her daughter is a lesbian, while facing the disapproval of her father for being unwed and pregnant!

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, June 10 – 16.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Area Theatrical Premiere!
Tell Them Who You Are
Medium Cool (Sat. & Sun.) Double Feature!

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Howl’s Moving Castle
Tell Them Who You Are
Born into Brothels (Sat. & Sun., Wed.)
Thrilling 3D Film Festival
House of Wax (Fri. & Tue.)
Dial M for Murder (Sat. & Mon.)
3D Shorts (Sat. & Sun.)
Kiss Me Kate (Sun.)
The Mad Magician (Tue.)
Gorilla at Large (Wed.)
Miss Sadie Thompson (Wed.)
It Came from Outer Space (Thu.)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Thu.)

FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Millions

FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Bombay Cinema Presents
Bunti Aur Babli
Parineeta

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Matters of Life and Death: The Films of Bruno Ganz
The Left-Handed Woman (Fri.)
Nosferatu (Fri.)
In the White City (Sat. & Tue.)
The Inventor (Sat. & Mon.)
The Boys from Brazil (Sun.)
Circle of Deceit (Mon. & Tue.)
Wings of Desire (Wed.)
Faraway So Close (Wed.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Mad Hot Ballroom
Layer Cake

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Howl’s Moving Castle
Happily Ever After
Intimate Stories
Rock School
Brothers
Layer Cake
The Holy Girl
Kung Fu Hustle (ineligible)
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
High Tension
Mad Hot Ballroom
Ladies in Lavender
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
Layer Cake

Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
Saving Face
Crash (ineligible)
Mad Hot Ballroom

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Birds on Film
Vodka Lemon (Sat.)
Kira Muratova Retrospective
Getting to Know the Big Wide World (Sat.)
Three Stories (Sun.)
Art of Film
Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (Sun.)
Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores and More
Paper Snow (Sun.)
The Rashevski’s Tango (Thu.)
Cinema Tropical
La Cienaga (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Schultze Gets the Blues

West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Saving Face
The Holy Girl
Turtles Can Fly
Dear Frankie
Look at Me
Walk on Water
Paper Clips

COMING SOON!

June Events from The Boston Jewish Film Festival

June 9 and June 12: The Boston Jewish Film Festival ENCORE AND MORE series continues at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) this week with PAPER SNOW, from Russian-Israeli directing team Lina and Slava Chaplin (A TRUMPET IN THE WADI)

Thu, Jun 9, 8:10 pm
Sun, Jun 12, 4 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston Jewish Film Festival ENCORE AND MORE PAPER SNOW Lina and Slava Chaplin (Israel, 2003, 98 min.).

The Russian-Israeli directing team known for A TRUMPET IN THE WADI directs this account of the wildly tempestuous affair between the Russian-born actress Hanna Rovina and her younger lover, Alexander Penn, a brilliant, self-destructive poet. Rovina was a founding member of the Russian theater troupe that ultimately became Habimah, Israel’s national theater company. She established herself as Israel’s leading actress, the “Queen of the Jews,” and her image as Leah’le in the Habima production of THE DYBBUK has become a symbol of Jewish and Israeli theater. The Chaplins evoke the feel of bohemian Tel Aviv in the 1930s when actors, novelists, painters, and poets began creating a caf’ociety and struggled to construct a new Hebrew culture of their own. In Hebrew with English subtitles.

Upcoming ENCORE AND MORE screenings:
THE RASHEVSKI’S TANGO, June 16 – 25
OR (MY TREASURE), June 23 ‘ July 3
ALILA, June 26, July 3
TO TAKE A WIFE, June 26, June 30
LATE MARRIAGE, June 30, July 2
THE NINTH DAY,’June 30 -‘July 7
For details, see the BJFF website.
June 19 ‘ August 7: If you’re traveling to Martha’s Vineyard this summer, don’t miss The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center Presents The Boston Jewish Film Festival,’a Sunday night summer film series beginning June 19.

June 24 ‘ 29: KAFKA GOES TO THE MOVIES. We are pleased to co-present this series of films at the Harvard Film Archive exploring the many attempts to adapt Kafka’s writing for the screen and to chronicle the relationship between the acclaimed writer and film.’The series includes Valerie Fokin’s METAMORPHOSIS, which was a hit in the 2003 Boston Jewish Film Festival.

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. presentsAMERIKA, a production based on the novel by Franz Kafka, which runs June 18-July 10, 2005.

Details on all events can be found at http://www.bjff.org/events

June 19 ‘ August 7
The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center Presents The Boston Jewish Film Festival

The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center (MVHC) Summer Institute once again presents a summer series of films curated by The Boston Jewish Film Festival.’Films screen each Sunday night at 7:30pm.

Sunday, June 19 at 7:30pm
THE RASHEVSKI’S TANGO

Sunday, June 26 at 7:30pm
WATERMARKS
Guest Speaker: Greta Stanton, one of the swimmers featured in WATERMARKS

Sunday, July 3 at 7:30pm
TUNANOODA
BAR MITZVAH BOY

Sunday, July 10 at 7:30pm
ALL I’VE GOT
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

Sunday, July 17 at 7:30pm
BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI

Sunday, July 24 at 7:30pm
THE DANISH SOLUTION: THE RESCUE OF THE JEWS IN DENMARK BEHIND ENEMY LINES

Sunday, July 31 at 7:30pm
WALK ON WATER

Sunday, August 7 at 7:30pm
PAPER CLIPS
Guest Speakers: Joe Fab, writer and co-director, PAPER CLIPS Linda Hooper, Principal, Whitwell Middle School, who is featured in film

For details, see http://www.bjff.org/events/?id= 303

Michael Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

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Two Chlotrudis Special Award Recipients Team Up in CAPOTE! ()

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Two Chlotrudis Special Award Recipients Team Up in CAPOTE!

It has been a while since Chlotrudis Hall Of Fame member Philip Seymour Hoffman has appeared on the big screen. That’s soon to change as the much-anticipated film CAPOTE gears up for a fall release. CAPOTE stars not only Hoffman as the author of In Cold Blood), but another early Gertrudis Award winner, Catherine Keener as fellow author Nelle Harper Lee. Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in New York and L.A. on September 30, 2005. Here is their synopsis: “While researching his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.”

Other Chlotrudis favorites, Bruce Greenwood, Chris Cooper, and Bob Balaban also appear in the film, a rough cut of which screened in Boston recently for a special audience. Chlotrudis member Amanda Weir-Gertzog was there and she reports on CAPOTE here. Sony Pictures Classics will soon be launching a website for CAPOTE, and you can see stills from the film there now.

It’s funny to think that Hoffman and Keener, both Chlotrudis favorites, have never appeared in a film together. Their pairing in CAPOTE should be very special indeed.

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IFC Picks Up New Film from Bier and Von Trier ()

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IFC Picks Up New Film from Bier and Von Trier

IFC Films picked up two Danish films of potential interest to Chlotrudis members at Cannes last month. Susanne Bier is currently enjoying a stateside release with her sophmore film BROTHERS while her foloow-up is currently in production in Denmark and India. IFC Films has purchased U.S. rights to that film entitled AFTER THE WEDDING. The film stars Danish star Mads Mikkelsen (TORREMOLINOS 73, GREEN BUTCHERS) as an idealistic manager of an orphanage whose life is changed by a family secret when he travels to Copenhagen. IFC Films is distributing BROTHERS in the States.

Lars von Trier’s latest film is entitled MANDERLAY, and is the second installment of his “USA – Land of Opportunities” series. In MANDERLAY, Grace (now played by Bryce Dallas Howard who takes over the role from Nicole Kidman) leaves Dogville and heads to Alabama where she encounters a group of slaves on the Manderlay Plantation who should have been emancipated 70 years earlier. Naturally, von Trier’s film has had a controversial ride. DOGVILLE was a devisive film for Chlotrudis members.

In addition to these two acquisitions, IFC Films will be releasing Miranda July’s ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW, which shared the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this month.l

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Remembering Anne Bancroft ()

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Anne BancroftThe film and theatre communities lost an award-winning actress when Anne Bancroft died Monday, June 5 in New York of uterine cancer. Born in the Bronx in 1931, Bancroft’s acting career spanned 50 years. Ms. Bancroft won two Tony Awards and an Oscar during her hard-working and varied career on stage and screen. After a decade in supporting roles, Bancroft became a star in the film THE MIRACLE WORKER, for which she won the Academy Award. She did some of her best work in the Sixties, capped by the role she may be best remembered for, Mrs. Robinson in Mike Nichols THE GRADUATE.

Bancroft continued to work in film until just a few years ago. Some of the other notable films she has appeared in include GARBO TALKS, AGNES OF GOD, ‘NIGHT MOTHER, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD, and TORCH SONG TRILOGY during the 80’s; HONEYMOON IN VEGAS, HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, G.I. JANE and ANTZ during the 90’s; and UP AT THE VILLA and KEEPING THE FAITH in 2000.

Here’s to you, Ms. Bancroft.

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Chlotrudis Award Winner Wiebke von Carolsfeld is Keeping Busy ()

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Wiebke von CarolsfeldWiebke von Carolsfeld won the Chlotrudis “Someone-to-Watch” Award in 2004, as well as picking up the Buried Treasure Award for her debut feature, MARION BRIDGE. Now after spending a couple of years working BRIDGE, the director is involved with several new projects. Her next film project will be an adaptation of Aislinn Hunter’s award-winning novel, Stay for the screen. Set in Spiddal, a small Irish town in the midst of transformation, Wiebke says that STAY will be a film about history and obligation. Her screenplay cuts between the stories of five characters as they struggle to find a place to stay, a place to call home.

In addition to the adaptation, Wiebke is working on an original screenplay. It is a tale of loss and healing, centered on nine-year-old Tom, entitled ADRIFT. Wiebke was recently in Garmany shooting a documentary about Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Miller called WALK WITH ME. Our Chlotrudis “Someone to Watch” is certainly working on a lot of projects for us to watch out for!

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Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies & Indie Film Round-Up, June 3 – 9 ()

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Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies & Indie Film Round-Up, June 3 – 9

Hey there Everyone!

There are two new films opening at the Kendall Square Theatre that you shouldn’t miss. One is next week’s Chlotrudis Monday Movie of the Week. ROCK SCHOOL is a hilarious documentary about the Paul Green School of Rock Music in Philadelphia, where a very peculiar and excitable teacher educates the youth of America about the importance of Frank Zappa, Black Sabbath and Metallica. Could this be the true life inspiration for Jack Black’s character in SCHOOL OF ROCK? Join us for the 7:45 p.m. screening at the Kendall Square Theatre on Monday night to find out!

Director Don Argott follows the trials and tribulations of students, ages nine to seventeen, of the Paul Green School of Rock Music’an after-school, Philadelphia institute of rock led by its founder and namesake. As Green takes a rag-tag group of students out of music oblivion, he molds them into a force to be reckoned with on the stage at Zappanale, a five-day music festival in Germany of all things Zappa. Will the kids bring the audience to their knees, or crash and burn the night of the big show to turn into rock school dropouts?

Director: Don Argott

BROTHERSThe other film opening tomorrow I highly recommend. I saw BROTHERS at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and was quietly blown away. This is Danish director Susanne Bier’s follow-up to the masterful OPEN HEARTS. This powerful drama examines how war can have unexpected and dramatic consequences on civillians who have family in combat. The film stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas (RECONSTRUCTION), Ulrich Thomsen (THE INHERITANCE), and Connie Nielsen (DEMONLOVER). This would have been the week’s Monday Movie of the week had I not already seen it.

Hal HartleyMost importantly, coming up tomorrow night there’s a Brattle event that no self-respecting Chlotrudis member will want to miss! Spend an evening with Chlotrudis Award winner Hal Hartley! Hal will be in town to promote the release of his latest film, THE GIRL FROM MONDAY, a science fiction film Hartley-style, about sex and consumerism starring the irrepressible Bill Sage. Since we’re such big fans of Hal at the Brattle, we decided to throw him a reception, and it’s to great an opportunity to pass up! Join Hal at Harvest, Friday, June 3, 5:30 – 7:00 for some delicious food and Harpoon beer, courtesy of our sponsors, Harvest Restaurant and Harpoon Brewery. Your $25.00 ticket will grant you admission to the reception for the free food and beer (along with a chance to say hello to Hal) as well as a ticket to see Hal’s new film and hear his Q&A afterwards! What more do you want? A lot of you got a chance to meet Hal when he was in town a few years ago to accept his Chlotrudis award, and it would be great if you’d stop by to say hello, and congratulate him on his Chlotrudis win. Advance tickets are on sale at the Brattle website, and are available at Harvest starting at 5:30 p.m. We’re limiting this event to 40 people and you really want to be one of them! Help the Brattle sell this event out!

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, June 3 – 9.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Area Theatrical Premiere!
The Girl from Monday (Fri. – Sun.) Hal Hartley in person at Fri. 7:15 screening!
Special Reception for Hal Hartley @ Harvest! (Fri.) Tickets are only $25 and include a ticket to 7:15 screening.
Trouble + Desire: the Films of Hal Hartley
The Unbelievable Truth (Mon.)
Possible Films: Hal Hartley Shorts (Tue.) Double Feature!
Amateur (Tue.) Double Feature!
No Such Thing (Wed.) Double Feature!
The Book of Life (Wed.) Double Feature!
Henry Fool (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
The Girl from Monday
Ladies in Lavender
Mad Hot Ballroom
Born into Brothels (Sat. & Sun.)
Midnite Madness
Leslie & The Ly’s in concert with guest BJ Snowden (Fri.)
Meet the Feebles (Fri. & Sat.)
Special Screening
F.W. Murnau’s Faust with live musical accompaniment by Cul De Sac (Mon.)
Brookline Booksmith presents Nick Hornby (Tue.)
Sneak Preview Screening and Fundraiser
Stolen Childhoods (Wed.)

FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Millions

FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Born into Brothels (Mon. – Thu.)
Bombay Cinema Presents
Bunti Aur Babli

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Matters of Life and Death: The Films of Bruno Ganz
Downfall (Fri.)
Behind Me (Sat. & Sun.)
Marquise of O (Sat. & Sun.)
The American Friend (Mon. & Tue.)
Knife in the Head (Mon. & Tue.)
The Left-Handed Woman (Wed.)
Nosferatu (Wed.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Mad Hot Ballroom
Layer Cake
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
Look at Me

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Rock School
Brothers
Eating Out
Layer Cake
The Holy Girl
Kung Fu Hustle (ineligible)
Look at Me
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Rock School
Mad Hot Ballroom
Ladies in Lavender
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
Layer Cake
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
Crash (ineligible)
Mad Hot Ballroom
Ladies in Lavender

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kira Muratova Retrospective
Passions (Fri.)
Chekhov’s Motives (Sat. & Wed.)
The Aesthenic Syndrome (Sun. & Thu.)
Armenian Cinema
Vodka Lemon (Fri. – Sun, Wed. & Thu.)
Birds on Film
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Sat.)
Art of Film
Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (Sat.)
Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores and More
Le Grande R’/i> (Sun.)
Paper Snow (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Monsieur N

West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Turtles Can Fly
Dear Frankie
Bride & Prejudice
Winter Solstice
Look at Me
Walk on Water
The Chorus
Paper Clips
Melinda and Melinda

COMING SOON!

An Evening with Hal Hartley
Filmmaker Hal Hartley will be appearing at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square for the area premier of his latest film: THE GIRL FROM MONDAY.

The Brattle Film Foundation will host an opening night reception in honor of Mr. Hartley on Friday June 3rd from 5:30’7:00PM at Harvest Restaurant around the corner from the Theatre. Tickets to the reception are $25.00 and include admission to the 7:15 screening followed by a Q&A session.

Advance tickets available on the Brattle website (www.brattlefilm.org) or after 5:30PM on the day of the event at the Harvest Restaurant. It is recommended to purchase advance tickets because space is limited for the reception.

The Girl From Monday will screen at the Brattle Theatre, June 3 through the 5th as the kick-off for a week-long restrospective of Mr. Hartley’s films. In addition to the premiere, the series will include such favorites as THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH, AMATEUR, BOOK OF LIFE and HENRY FOOL. The retrospective will run from June 6th through June 9th.

If you would like to purchase tickets just for the screening with Mr. Hartley present or other individual screenings in the retrospective, you can do so online at www.brattlefilm.org ‘ tickets for the screening with Mr. Hartley present are $10, all other shows in the series are the normal Brattle Theatre ticket prices.

May Events from The Boston Jewish Film Festival

The Boston Jewish Film Festival Encore and More! at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 2 ‘ July 7. See www.bjff.org/events for details

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

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Arsin’Khanjian Stars in SABAH! ()

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Arsin’Khanjian Stars in SABAH!

Chlotrudis Award winner Arsin’Khanjian has opened a new film in Canada that is NOT directed by Atom Egoyan. SABAH: A LOVE STORY, is the new feature film by Ruba Nadda, an internationally acclaimed writer, director, producer from Toronto. Khanjian plays Sabah, a 40-year-old Muslim Arab woman living a quiet life devoted to her family. Frustrated living under her brother Majid’s patriarchy, Sabah sneaks away on her 40th birthday to enjoy a relaxing and rehabilitating swim. The freedom she finds at the pool draws Sabah back, and it is there she meets Stephen. As the two grow close, and Sabah begins to fall in love, she must face the fact that she has to tell her family that she wants a life with a man from a different culture. Pictured left are Shawn Doyle as Stephen, and Khanjian as Sabah.

SABAH: A LOVE STORY was an official selection of several film festivals around the world, placing in the Top 10 Audience favorites at both the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Commonwealth Film Festival. SABAH: A LOVE STORY opened in Canada on May 27. Here’s hoping we get to see it someday!

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