Chlotrudis news

Holy cow! There is now less than one week until The MassBay Film Festival’s Kickoff Event, featuring a FREE screening of the newly-restored version of Worcester native Samuel Fuller’s World War II epic, THE BIG RED ONE. The screening is at Showcase Cinemas Worcester North on Thursday, April 14th at 7:30pm, and all you have to do to come is stop by Tatnuck Bookseller at 335 Chandler Street in Worcester any time to claim your pass, which admits you and a guest. There is a limited number of these passes available, so please get yours soon.

The MassBay Film Festival is a Worcester-based multi-day, multi-venue film event, featuring over 50 films, including some area and New England premieres, director appearances and some surprises still in store. Chlotrudis member Rob Newton organized the Festival through The MassBay Film Project an organization he founded and on which he serves as Creative Director. After complaining to his wife Cynthia that Boston and Providence are sites for major film festivals yet Worcester had nothing, she challenged him to do something about it, and he has, in a big way!

To learn more about how you can attend and support The MassBay Film Festival, which features 50 film and runs from April 15-May 1 in and around Worcester, visit www.MassBayFilmFestival.org.

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Once again, it’s a cornucopia of new movie possibilties here in the Boston area, making it difficult to select the film for the Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies. I’ve got to admit that I chose this week’s film on the strength of the director’s previous film, THE TASTE OF OTHERS, which was up for a Best Cast Chlotrudis Award back in 2002 for the 8th Annual Awards. LOOK AT ME is the latest film from French director/writer/actress Agn’Jaoui, and it screens at the Kendall Square Cinema at 7:20 p.m. on Monday night. This film won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes last year.

A story of human beings who know exactly what they’d do if they were somebody else, but are struggling to find out who they are. Overweight and lacking in self-esteem, Lolita (Marilou Berry) is angry at the world because her father Etienne (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a famous and celebrated writer, is too busy to notice her. Lolita wants to be a singer, and soon attaches herself to her teacher Sylvia (director/co-writer Agn’Jaoui, The Taste of Others). After learning that Lolita is Etienne’s daughter, Sylvia spends extra time with her and Etienne, hoping she will get access to a better life. (Fully subtitled)

DIRECTOR: Agn’Jaoui

CAST: Marilou Berry, Agn’Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Laurent Gr’ll, Virginie Desarnauts, Keine Bouhiza, Gr’ire Oestermann, Serge Riaboukine, Mich’ Moretti

Fans of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE won’t want to miss the Brattle Wong Kar-Wai retrospective starting tomorrow night. I really want to see DAYS OF BEING WILD, but it doesn’t look like I’m going to be able to squeeze it in. Speaking of Wong Kar-Wai, the Kendall is opening EROS, a triptych of films by directors Kar-Wai, Stephen Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni. I’ve heard mixed things about this film, but the Kar-Wai segment is supposed to be incredible. The Coolidge is premiering a new film that was a hit at last year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival: NINA’S TRAGEDIES. And if you’re free on Friday, try to catch the final meeting of the BU Cinematheque with filmmaker Michael Epstein.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, April 8 – 14.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Wong Kar Wai: A Retrospective
Days of Being Wild (Fri. & Sat.)
As Tears Go By (Sun.)
Ashes of Time (Sun.)
Chungking Express (Mon. & Tue.)
Fallen Angels (Mon. & Tue.)
Happy Together (Wed.)
In the Mood for Love (Thu.)
Special Event: The B.U. Cinematheque Presents: Newly Restored Original Cut!
Heaven’s Gate (Sat. & Sun.)
Harvard Book Store Presents:
Camille Paglia (Tue.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Nina’s Tragedies
Academy Award Nominated Shorts
Millions
Watermarks
Midnite Madness
The Animation Show (Fri. & Sat.)

FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
A Very Long Engagement (ineligible)
Finding Neverland
Bride & Prejudice
Sideways
Closer (ineligible)

FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Sideways
Bad Education
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
An Evening with Todd Solondz
Happiness (Fri.) Director in Person!
Palindromes (Fri.) Director in Person! Sorry – this is SOLD OUT!
Tremors of Forgery: Filming Patricia Highsmith
Ripley’s Game (Sat.)
The American Friend (Sat.)
Purple Noon (Sun.)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Sun.)
Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960-2005
Oasis (Mon.)
Black and White on Screen
Toxi (Mon.)
Fashion on Film
In the Mood for Love (Tue. & Wed.)
Film and Autobiography
Intervista (Tue.)
Alain Resnais
My American Uncle (Wed.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Walk on Water
Born into Brothels
Millions
Downfall
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Cast!
Finding Neverland
Paper Clips
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Look at Me
Eros
Dust to Glory
The 48-Hour Film Project (Tue. & Thu.)
Off the Map
Millions
Walk on Water
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Downfall
Born into Brothels

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Melinda and Melinda
Downfall
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Bride & Prejudice
Born into Brothels
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Melinda and Melinda
The Upside of Anger
Schultze Gets the Blues
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Fourth Boston Turkish Film Festival
Hope (Fri.)
Motherland Hotel (Fri.)
The Herd (Sat.)
Innocence (Sat.)
Yol (Sun.)
Distant (Sun.)
Art on Film
Antonio Gaudi (Sat. & Sun.)
Pre-release Screening
Palindromes w/ director Todd Solondz Present

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Off the Map

West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Nina’s Tragedies
Look at Me
Lost Embrace
Walk on Water
Hotel Rwanda
The Chorus
Schultze Gets the Blues
Paper Clips

SPECIAL EVENTS

THE BU CINEMATHEQUE RETURNS! APRIL 2005 SCHEDULE

This is the last showing of the semester!

Friday, April 8-AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL EPSTEIN BU College of Communication, 640 Comm. Ave., Room B-05, 7 pm

The New York-based Epstein, an Academy Award nominee, has carved a distinguished career making penetrating documentaries about Hollywood subjects: Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick,, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist. His newest film is his funniest, liveliest, and most eye-opening: Final Cut: the Making and Unmaking of Heaven’s Gate (2004). It’s the wild saga of the 1980 Michael Cimino movie so financially out of control’20 times more expensive than planned!– that it closed down a Hollywood studio. Here’s what really happened on the set, unbelievable if there weren’t eye witnesses.

SEE the behind-the-scenes documentary, SEE the actual film, which is far, far better than its crazy reputation! (The French adore it!)

Heaven’s Gate plays Saturday and Sunday, April 9 and 10, at the Brattle in a newly restored original 35mm cut, all 220 minutes of it. From Michael Cimino, the filmmaker of The Deerhunter, comes this vast, mighty epic of the Old West starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, and Isabelle Huppert.

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Photos from the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony have been posted on the Ceremony Page. See special guests Lucas Belvaux, Ellen Page, and John O’Brien accepting their awards. See guest presenters Ty Burr, Gerry Peary, Lucia Small, and many more announcing the winners of the 2004 Chlotrudis Awards. See Chlotrudis members having fun and talking about independent film!

Special thanks to our photographer, Brandon Constant, who once again did a spectacular job capturing the excitement of the night’s festivities. Thanks also to the Canadian Consulate of Boston, The Charles Hotel, Noir, The Harding House, and The Brattle Theatre for all their sponsorship and assistance in making the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards happen.

Hey there Everyone!

It’s catch-up week! This week for our Monday Night at the Movies, return after weeks to the Coolidge Corner Theatre to catch the 7:30 screening of HEAD-ON before it leaves on Tuesday. Click on the title to read Diane Young’s terrific review of this German/Turkish co-production. Remember, Monday is Chlotrudis night at the Coolidge. Show your membership card and receive a discount! Check out the synopsis below.

Head-On (Gegen Die Wand)
dir. Fatih Akin w/Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, in German & Turkish w/subtitles, 2h5m

Director Fatih Akin presents a raw, powerful love story that has been winning universal critical acclaim. 40-year-old Cahit is brought to a clinic after attempting suicide. There he meets Sibel, a young woman desperately trying to escape from her strict Turkish family. They engage in a platonic marriage of convenience, but soon Cahit comes to find Sibel’s vibrant free spirit to be his saving grace. Sibel is busy enjoying her newfound freedom, but gradually she comes to realize that she loves Cahit as well. But before they can truly be together, an incident of jealous violence tests their fledgling romance. HEAD-ON doesn’t shy away from the bleaker aspects of life, but in the end the film is beautifully melancholic, showing how even when life is filled with unexpected drama, it is love that can truly restore the soul.

It’s a big week for the Coolidge as Wednesday night sees the presentation of the Coolidge Award to internationally acclaimed cinematographer vittario Storaro. After a weekend of films wrapping up a career overview of Storaro’s work, the Coolidge will hold an award ceremony that includes testimonials from filmmakers and scholars; selected scenes from Vittorio Storaro’s body of work; live music and dance performances; and the presentation of the second Coolidge Award. Those of you who are fortunate enough to have Thursday off should definitely check out the Writing with Light discussion on Cinematography featuring acclaimed directors of photography Sotraro, Albert Maysles (GREY GARDENS), Maryse Alberti (HAPPINESS) and more. The seminar begins at 1:30 p.m.

Thursday night join us at the Harvard Film Archive for a special pre-release screening of YES, the latest film by Sally Potter (ORLANDO) starring Joan Allen. YES is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian), in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation: religious, political, and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband and Shirley Henderson a philosophical cleaner who witnesses the trail of dirt and heartbreak the lovers leave behind them as they embark on a journey that takes them from London and Belfast to Beirut and Havana. This free event features a special Q&A with Potter, followed by a reception with the filmmaker. This is sure to sell out, and starts at the early screening time of 6:00 p.m., so do try to get there early. I will be in line between 5:15 and 5:30, so let me know if you’ll be coming and I’ll look out for you.

Please make note of two very exciting events taking place this week at Gerry Peary’s BU Cinematheque. Thursday night features a rare appearance by director Todd Solondz who will be pre-screening his new film PALINDROMES!

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, April 1 – 7.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Area Theatrical Premiere
The Animation Show
Harvard Book Store Presents:
Ian McEwan (Fri.)
Jonathan Safran Foer (Wed.)
SurfNite 2005: A Benefit for SurfAid International’s Tsunami Relief Efforts
A Brokedown Melody (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Head-On
Academy Award Nominated Shorts
Millions
Watermarks
Coolidge Award retrospective of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
Ishtar (Fri.)
Flamenco (Sat.)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Sat.)
Tango (Sun.)
GALA AWARD CEREMONY featuring Vittorio Storaro (Wed.)
Cinematographer Panel fearting Vittorio Storaro, Albert Maysles and more (Thu.)
Reds with Q&A by Vittorio Storaro (Thu.)
Midnite Madness
The Animation Show (Fri. & Sat.)
Balagan
Punk Rock Premieres (Thu.)

FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
A Very Long Engagement (ineligible)
Finding Neverland
Bride & Prejudice
Sideways
Closer (ineligible)

FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Sideways
Bad Education
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
California Stars: Los Angeles on Film
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Fri. & Sun.)
The Decay of Fiction & Water and Power (Sat.)
Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960-2005
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Mon.)
Black and White on Screen
A Taste of Honey (Mon.)
Fashion and Film
The Bride Wore Red (Tue.)
Film and Autobiography
Trying to Kiss the Moon (Tue.)
Frames of Mind
Rashomon (Wed.)
Alain Resnais
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Wed.)
Director Sally Potter in Person
Yes (Thu.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Born into Brothels
Millions
Downfall
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Cast!
Finding Neverland
Paper Clips
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Lost Embrace
Off the Map
Steamboy
Millions
Walk on Water
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
dot the i
Downfall
Born into Brothels
Hotel Rwanda

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Melinda and Melinda
Downfall
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Bride & Prejudice
Born into Brothels
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible) (ineligible)

Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Melinda and Melinda
The Upside of Anger
Schultze Gets the Blues
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Fourth Boston Turkish Film Festival
Dry Summer (Fri.)
The Girl with the Red Scarf (Fri.)
The Bride (Sat.)
Mushin Bey (Sat.)
What’s a Human Anyway (Sun.)
Spanish Cinema
In the City (Sat.)
Art on Film
Antonio Gaudi (Mon.)
Pre-release Screening
Palindromes w/ director Todd Solondz Present

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Lost Embrace
Walk on Water
Hotel Rwanda
The Chorus
Schultze Gets the Blues
Paper Clips
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

SPECIAL EVENTS

THE BU CINEMATHEQUE RETURNS! APRIL 2005 SCHEDULE

These are the last two showings of the semester!

Thursday, April 7-AN EVENING WITH TODD SOL0NDZ
635 Comm.Ave, Room 102, 7 pm (Across the street from the BU College of Communication)

Solondz, the much celebrated, also deeply controversial, independent filmmaker, in Boston for the April 15 opening of Palindromes, his new work, comes to BU for a screening of his breakthrough hit, Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), and to discuss a career which includes Happiness (1998) and Storytelling (2001). In Welcome to the Dollhouse, young Heather Matarazzo deals with the horrors of American suburbia, an unsupportive family, and the perils of junior high school. Is Solondz an unforgiving misanthrope or a fierce, brilliant satirist in the tradition of Mark Twain?

Friday, April 8-AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL EPSTEIN BU College of Communication, 640 Comm. Ave., Room B-05, 7 pm

The New York-based Epstein, an Academy Award nominee, has carved a distinguished career making penetrating documentaries about Hollywood subjects: Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, Alfred Hitchcock and David O.
Selznick,, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist. His newest film is his funniest, liveliest, and most eye-opening: Final Cut: the Making and Unmaking of Heaven’s Gate (2004). It’s the wild saga of the 1980 Michael Cimino movie so financially out of control’20 times more expensive than planned!– that it closed down a Hollywood studio. Here’s what really happened on the set, unbelievable if there weren’t eye witnesses.

SEE the behind-the-scenes documentary, SEE the actual film, which is far, far better than its crazy reputation! (The French adore it!)

Heaven’s Gate plays Saturday and Sunday, April 9 and 10, at the Brattle in a newly restored original 35mm cut, all 220 minutes of it. From Michael Cimino, the filmmaker of The Deerhunter, comes this vast, mighty epic of the Old West starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, and Isabelle Huppert.

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Winning an unprecedented five ‘Trudies’ during Sunday’s 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards held at the Brattle Theatre, French director Lucas Belvaux found it simpler after a while to leap directly from his chair to the stage, rather than take the stairs, for his acceptance speeches. His intertwined threesome of films (AN AMAZING COUPLE, AFTER THE LIFE and ON THE RUN), together called THE TRILOGY, received accolades for Best Film, Director, Cast and Original Screenplay.

The night’s festivities kicked off with a rollicking multimedia musical number performed by members of the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film (CSIF), which set the tone for the rest of the evening’s celebrations. Presenters and guests included many members of the Boston film community, among them longtime Chlotrudis friend Gerald Peary, film scholar and critic for The Boston Phoenix, Ty Burr, Boston Globe film critic, local film-makers Lucia Small and Robert Patton-Spruill, as well as representatives from the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Boston Jewish Film Festival and the Roxbury Film Festival.

Mr. Belvaux, in addition to winning every category for which THE TRILOGY was nominated, was also one of three special award recipients who were honored by Chlotrudis this year, receiving the Body of Work Award. Vermont filmmaker John O’Brien received the society’s Maverick Award, which honors those filmmakers who best exemplify true film independence. Mr. O’Brien was awarded a second Trudy when his latest film, NOSEY PARKER, won for Buried Treasure, a category for films that Chlotrudis members feel have been unduly overlooked.

On the rise acting sensation Ellen Page received the third award of distinction, the Breakthrough Award. Chlotrudis this year broke somewhat with tradition to award Ms. Page in anticipation of near-future career success, having spotted the young Canadian actress hold her own in MARION BRIDGE and her Genie-nominated turn in WILBY WONDERFUL (both written by previous Trudy winner, Daniel MacIvor), Members have no doubt that, once her latest film, HARD CANDY screens nationwide later this year, Ellen Page’s name will be on the lips of many. The film made a splash at Sundance, where it generated controversy, much conversation and universal acclaim for her lead performance.

Despite the strong showing among this year’s nominations, only one Asian film made the jump to Chlotrudis Award winner, receiving two awards that both ended in ties. South Korea’s SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER’AND SPRING, directed by Ki-duk Kim, shared in Best Cinematography and Best Film honors. Other notable winners were Gael Garcia Bernal (BAD EDUCATION) for Best Actor, Imelda Staunton (VERA DRAKE) for Best Actress, and TARNATION for Best Documentary. A complete list of award winners can be found here.

Hey there Everyone!

While I was very tempted to catch STEAMBOY this week for the Chlotrudis Monday Night Movie of the Week, I deferred (partially because only the English language version is showing at that time). Instead I went with OFF THE MAP, the latest directorial effort from Campbell Scott (BIG NIGHT). In what Roger Ebert calls, “one of the year’s most unusual and affecting films,” Scott takes us to 1974 and the harshly beautiful wilds of Taos, New Mexico. Join us for the 7:30 p.m. screening at the Kendall Square Cinema.

The wilds of Taos, New Mexico are home to eleven-year-old Bo Groden (Valentina de Angelis) and her free-thinking parents, Arlene (Joan Allen) and Charley (Sam Elliott). When a hapless IRS agent (Jim True-Frost) arrives to investigate the Groden’s tax history, he proves to be a catalyst in their lives. Embraced by the Groden’s idyllic, peculiar world, the agent soon falls in love with the magical landscape and its extraordinary people and quickly forgets what he came for. Screenplay by Joan Ackermann, based on her play. Directed by Campbell Scott (co-director of BIG NIGHT).
DIRECTOR: Campbell Scott
CAST: J.D. Hawkins, Joan Allen, Amy Brenneman, Valentina de Angelis, Sam Elliott, J.K. Simmons, Kevin Skousen, Jim True-Frost

Weekend film buffs should try and catch the new documentary playing at the Brattle Theatre, L.A. PLAYS ITSELF, which kicks off a series of Noir films set in L.A. Other recent releases that have been getting some buzz include Danny Boyle’s MILLIONS and the German film HEAD-ON, both playing currently at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. The other new release at the Kendall this week is SCHIZO, director Guka Omarova’s coming-of-age story is set in 1990s Kazakhstan.

I hope those of you who attended last weekend’s 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony had a terrific time! I’ve heard comments such as, “the best Chlotrudis Awards ever!” to multiple comments on the “best after-party ever!” It’s great to hear that kind of feedback, despite the fact that we were woefully under-attended. Still, it was a terrific audience, and those of you who couldn’t make it, I hope to see you at next year’s event (and lots of times in between!) Our three guests, Lucas Belvaux, Ellen Page, and John O’Brien were absolutely delightful, and all our guest presenters, and Chlotrudis participants did an outstanding job. You can get a sneak preview of some of the terrific photos taken by ace photographer (and all around sweet guy) Brandon Constant on your left. That’s Kate Pike, Emily Pike (on video), Michael Colford, Scot Colford, Merri Lavine, and Janet Young (in the foreground) during the opening multimedia extravaganza. Look for results and the rest of the pictures on the web over the weekend!

As for our other event last weekend, thanks to all of you who attended the WILBY WONDERFUL screenings. Ellen Page was a trooper, introducing or doing q&a’s at four screenings. Attendance was healthy, and I saw lots of Chlotrudis members on Saturday night! I’d love for some of you to send in your reviews so we can get them up on the website. For those of you who missed it, we will have a screener copy available when THAT season starts up again.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, March 25 – 31.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Area Theatrical Premiere
L.A. Plays Itself (Fri. – Sun.)
Dark Side of the Sun: L.A. Noir
The Big Sleep (Sat. & Sun.)
Chinatown (Mon.)
Criss Cross (Tue.)
This Gun for Hire (Tue.)
Point Blank (Wed.)
Collateral (Thu.)
To Live & Die in L.A. (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Head-On
Million Dollar Baby
Academy Award Nominated Shorts
Millions
Watermarks
Midnite Madness
Ladyhawke (Fri. & Sat.)
Coolidge Award retrospective of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
Apocalypse Now (Mon.)
Coolidge Award Seminar:
THE AMERICAN VIEW: Coppola & Beatty (Wed.)
Booksmith Presents
Jonathan Lethem (Thu.)

FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
A Very Long Engagement (ineligible)
Finding Neverland
Bride & Prejudice
Sideways
Closer (ineligible)

FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
Sideways
Bad Education
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
California Stars: Los Angeles on Film
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (Fri. & Sun.)
Tarzan and Jane Regained’Sort of (Fri. & Tue.)
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (Sat. & Sun.)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Sat.)
Los, Pasadena Freeway Stills, & L.A.X. (Mon.)
Los Angeles, Now (Tue.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Born into Brothels
Paper Clips
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Cast!
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Schizo
Off the Map
Steamboy
Millions
Walk on Water
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Nobody Knows
Downfall
Born into Brothels
Hotel Rwanda

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Melinda and Melinda
Downfall
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Bride & Prejudice
Born into Brothels
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
Melinda and Melinda
In My Country
The Upside of Anger
Dear Frankie
Schultze Gets the Blues
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Staircase (Fri.)
Spanish Cinema
In the City (Fri. – Sun.)
Pre-Release Screening
Turtles Can Fly (Fri.)
Vietnamese Cinema
Buffalo Boy
Maurice Pialat Retrospective
Graduate First (Sat.)
Van Gogh (Sun.)
Art on Film
Antonio Gaudi (Sun.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Travelers & Magicians

West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Walk on Water
Hotel Rwanda
The Chorus
Schultze Gets the Blues
Being Julia
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Hey there Everyone!

It’s either feast or famine! In addition to the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards, which I will discuss more fully below, there are several new films opening this week that I want to see! Yes, Chlotrdis Awards will only be 24 hours in the past, and the Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies will be back in place. Please join us on Monday, March 21 at the Kendall Square Cinema for the 7:25 screening of Eytan Fox’s WALK ON WATER. Fox’s last film was the Boston Jewish Film Festival’s Audience Award winner YOSSI & JAGGER. The BJFF has already had a special screening of WALK ON WATER with director Eytan Fox in attendance, which I unfortunately had to miss. The film stars Lior Ashkenazi, outstanding in LATE MARRIAGE.

Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi, Late Marriage), a fierce agent for the elite Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, is assigned to track down aging Nazi war criminal Alfred Himmelman, who might still be alive. By posing as a tour guide, Eyal befriends Himmelman’s freethinking grandchildren in Tel Aviv, later following them to Germany for a family gathering. What begins as a deceptive mission dissolves into a journey through conflicting ideologies and histories, changing Eyal’s view of the world forever. Winner of three Israeli Film Academy Awards. (Partially subtitled)
DIRECTOR: Eytan Fox
CAST: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Hanns Zischler, Carola Regnier

I’m hoping to be able to catch the latest piece of anime extravaganza by AKIRA director Katsuhiro ‘omo, STEAMBOY. This one opens at the Kendall as well and I’d really like to see it. Also opening this week is Danny Boyle’s new film MILLIONS. The Kendall opens it on Friday, but the Coolidge will be opening it as well on Wednesday. HEAD-ON has gotten some strong reviews from Chlotrudis members, and that continues to play at the Coolidge.

The real excitement is coming up this weekend, with the Chlotrudis Society of Independent Film’s WILBY Weekend and 11th Annual Awards Ceremony! The weekend kicks off on Friday and Saturday when Chlotrudis and the Brattle Film Foundation co-present WILBY WONDERFUL, directed by 2004’s Chlotrudis “Body of Work” Award winner, Daniel MacIvor, and starring a cornucopia of Canadian film talent: Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, Jim Allodie, Jim Allodi, Rebecca Jenkins, Paul Gross, and the lovely Ellen Page (pictured left) who will be on hand for the evening screenings to say hello and answer a few questions. The weekend is capped off with the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony, where the winners of this year’s Chlotrudis Awards will be announced! Ellen Page will be on hand to collect the Breakthrough Award, won last year by the fabulous Kerry Washington. Other guests include Belgian writer/director/actor Lucas Belvaux, whose films ON THE RUN, AN AMAZING COUPLE, and AFTER THE LIFE, collectively called THE TRILOGY are nominated in four categories. Belvaux is this year’s recipient of the Chlotrudis “Body of Work” Award for his achievement in front of and behind the camera. Rounding out this year’s guest list is John O’Brien, the talented young director whose recent film NOSEY PARKER is nominated in the Buried Treasure Category. John will be on hand to accept the Chlotrudis “Maverick” Award. Tickets are on sale now for all of the exciting Wilby Weekend events at the Brattle Theatre. Chlotrudis members can reserve tickets for the Awards Ceremony by contacting me at colford@chlotrudis.org. The special, members-only after party at Noir is sponsored by the Canadian Consulate of Boston. Thanks also to Noir and The Charles Hotel.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, March 11 – 17.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Co-presented by Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film!
Wilby Wonderful Actress Ellen Page will be present! (Fri. & Sat.)
11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards! (Sun.)
Area Theatrical Premiere!
Sunset Story (Mon. & Tue.)
Cambridge Queer Presents (Wed.)
Harvard Book Store and the Brattle Film Foundation Present
An Evening with Robert B. Parker (Thu.)
Robert B. Parker Introduces
The Maltese Falcon (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Head-On
Million Dollar Baby
Academy Award Nominated Shorts (Fri. – Tue.)
Millions (Wed. & Thu.)
Watermarks
Coolidge Award retrospective of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 (Mon.)
Balagan special big screen show:
Short Films of Richard Leacock Director present! (Tue.)
Coolidge Award Seminar:
DREAM TEAM: Storaro & Bertolucci (Wed.)
Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series
Jim Finn & Arthur Jones (Thu.)

FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
A Very Long Engagement
Finding Neverland
Bride & Prejudice
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)

FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
A Very Long Engagement
Finding Neverland (Fri., Mon. – Wed.)
Closer (ineligible)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)
Bombay Cinema Presents
Black (Fri. – Sun.)
Bewafaa (Fri. – Sun.)

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
The Experimentalists: 11 Experimental shorts (Fri.)
The Truth of the Matter: 8 Experimental Documentaries (Fri.)
Film and Autobiography
Diary (Sat. & Sun.)
JLG/JLG (Tue.)
Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960-2005
Repatriation Director in person!(Mon.)
Black and White On Screen
Lost Boundaries (Mon.)
Fashion and Film
The Pillow Book (Tue. & Wed.)
Philosophy and Film: Deleuze
The Earrings of Madame de’ (Wed.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Bride & Prejudice
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Cast!
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Steamboy
Millions
Walk on Water
Gunner Palace
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Nobody Knows
Downfall
Born into Brothels
Hotel Rwanda

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Melinda and Melinda (Wed. & Thu.)
Downfall
Gunner Palace
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Bride & Prejudice
Born into Brothels
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible) (ineligible)

Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
In My Country
The Upside of Anger
Dear Frankie
Schultze Gets the Blues
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Vietnamese Cinema
Buffalo Boy (Fri., Sun., & Thu.)
Maurice Pialat Retrospective
Police (Fri.)
Le Gar’/i> (Thu.)
The House in the Woods Part 2
Argentinian Cinema
Today and Tomorrow (Sat.)
Chinese Cinema
Uniform (Sat. & Thu.)
Uruguayan Cinema
Whisky (Thu.)
Bosnian/Herzegovinan Cinema
Fuse (Thu.)