Chlotrudis news

Twelve days to go before the Opening Night of the Toronto International Film Festival. Last Tuesday the list of films was published on the website. This is one of a series of ever-escalating little thrills until I plant my butt in the first movie theatre in Toronto. The list of films isn’t all that useful as a planning tool; it merely lists titles and directors, no synopses, dates or times. The real pre-Toronto jackpot comes next Tuesday when the complete schedule is released. That’s when the brief mania of seeing what I want to see when occurs. It’s also the time when films directed and starring people I’ve never heard of become contenders after reading synopses. Still, this year I’m borrowing a trick from my ever-organized Scot, and creating my own spreadsheet of potential films to see.

My list consists of 37 films in this early stage. A very reasonable list for a festival that will be screening over 350 films total. This list will surely grow when next Tuesday’s schedule is released, before being brutally whittled down to something slightly resembling a workable schedule. Of course, all this planning is tossed out the window once we arrive.

Here are some of the highlights that I’m very excited about. I have a general rule that I don’t see Galas. Those a the big, splashy premieres with red carpets, lots of stars, 600+ seat theatres, etc. Gala films sell out fairly quickly, and they are the type of film that are often released soon after the festival. This year, Atom Egoyan‘s latest work, WHERE THE TRUTH LIES, is a gala screening. A few years ago I missed ARARAT, which was the opening night film. This is my opportunity to see Atom & Arsinee (photo left) to introduce the film and hold a Q&A afterwards. WHERE THE TRUTH LIES is struggling with an NC-17 rating in ths states, and this could be a rare opportunity to see the film uncut. Atom Egoyan is my favorite filmmaker, so if there’s ever a gala I should attempt, it’s this one. Atom’s gala will be held on Tuesday, September 13 at 9:30, and tickets are available online beginning today. I think I’ll try to get me some.

Almost more exciting is THE WAYWARD CLOUD, the new film by Tsai Ming Liang, who is close behind Egoyan in terms of filmmakers whose work I won’t miss. Tsai will be in attendance, which is very exciting, and THE WAYWARD CLOUD, in addition to starring his two regulars from WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? is a musical. Wowee! Who could possibly resist?

Other favorite filmmakers whose films will be screened include: Majid Majidi (BARAN), Zhang Yang (QUITTING), Wan Xiaoshuai (BEIJING BICYCLE), Jim McKay (OUR SONG), Michael Haneke (THE PIANO TEACHER), Thom Fitzgerald (THE HANGING GARDEN), Guay Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) and so many more.

Recently someone asked me how I chose from the enormous list of films. As I was looking through this year’s list it became fairly evident. My first criteria is filmmaker. There are certain filmmakers whose work I will always try to see. Cast members are usually next in line. Certain actors are a draw to seeing a film despite the subject matter. Synopses are important, of course, (although not as important as the filmmaker) and an intriguing story will often influence my decision to see a film. (This is often the only factor when deciding upon Documentaries.) Finally, when I am in Toronto, country of origin becomes a factor. I do my best to see as many Canadian films as possible at the festival, then fill out the rest of my choices with a list that is as international as possible given the other criteria.

Of course, Toronto also means seeing some of our friends in Toronto. I’m looking forward to seeing Marilyn (Phil’s new film CAPOTE will be screened), Wiebke, Kish, and possibly Daniel (who will be appearing in a film called WHOLE NEW THING that he also wrote.) Also part of the fun this year will be sharing the experience with good friends and family, especially those who have never been to the festival!

More festival news to come!

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

Around this time, I start to get very excited about the impending Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). In just 18 days, Scot and I will be flying to my favorite country in the world to spend a week immersed in film. Every few days a new press release is issued from TIFF listing additional films that will be playing during the fest’s 11 day event. Already new films by Atom Egoyan, Tsai Ming Liang, Deepa Mehta, Daniel MacIvor, and Zhang Yang have been announced, and the list just keeps growing longer. In two short days, the complete list of films will be revealed, and one week after that, the schedule will be revealed. That’s when the real mania takes over.

After a day or two of excitement bordering on panic, I will reach the zen stage, knowing that everything will work out, I have done the festival many times in the past, and it always goes very smoothly. This year Chlotrudis is travelling with a group of nearly 20, taking over the Jarvis House Bed & Breakfast. Besides seeing a large amount of international films, there are two things that I know I will be doing. One is queueing up each morning at the main box office to get our group’s tickets for the day, something I really enjoy doing. That’s me (see photo left) in line at an amazingly early hour on a Sunday morning waiting for the main box office to open. The other thing I am going to try my best to do, is to blog here each day with what’s going on at TIFF. Whether that be hanging out in the Four Seasons lobby picking out celebrities with Marilyn, or having lunch with writer/director Wiebke von Carolsfeld, you’ll read about it here. Who knows, I might get some other Chlotrudis members to share their impressions as well.

Among the many films scheduled for the 7th Annual Roxbury Film Festival, to be held throughout Boston August 17 – 21, is a short film which won both Best Film and Audience Favorite at last fall’s Chlotrudis Short Film Festival. DWAINE’S BIG GAME follows a local man’s pursuit of perfection – on the bowling lanes, that is – and manages in the space of a few minutes to reveal a very big heart.

The Chlotrudis Short Film Festival is held every autumn. This year, the festival’s 6th, will be held on Monday October 3, 2005 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. It is a juried competitive event, with a cash award for the winning Best Film. Over the years, films in competition have spanned the world, with entries from as far away as Australia and Israel, and as nearby as a neighborhood bowling league in Boston.

In addition, a fund-raising silent auction will also be held, with chances to bid upon prizes that include free weekends at exclusive hotels, certificates for luxury services like massages or personal shopping, and VIP passes to several of the area’s film festivals. The Short Film Festival is one way Chlotrudis honors and supports independent filmmakers, while providing an opportunity for Boston area audiences to enjoy a night of some of the best short films around.

In addition to DWAINE’S BIG GAME, the Roxbury Film Festival features screenings of a variety of new films spotlighting filmmakers of color. Special guest Billy Dee Williams, who is appearing in two of the festival’s films, will be on hand on opening night. Check out the full line-up at www.roxburyfilmfestival.org.

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

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

Was it just the other day that Chlotrudis congratulated Ellen Page for her placement on Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 film people to watch? Was it just this past March that Chlotrudis recognized Ellen with the Someone To Watch Award? Now we congratulate Ellen again, as FilmForce announces that she has been tapped to play Kitty Pryde (see image left) in X-Men 3, the next installment in the popular comic-based movie fraqnchise to be released next summer. (Thanks for the tip, Ned!) Kitty is a teen-aged mutant genius with the ability to phase through solid objects. Of all the possible Hollywood projects Ellen could have chosen, here’s one that is has the potential for a really great career move. After all, it hasn’t hurt Hugh Jackman’s credibilty!

Congratulations, Ellen! We new you’d be a star!