Hey there Movie Buffs!
Not too much opening this week, so it’s time to play catch up! Join us at the Kendall Square Cinema for some post-Oscar documentary fun: INSIDE DEEP THROAT! We’ll be catching the 7:40 p.m. screening, so there’ll be plenty of time for some dinner beforehand. I was hoping to catch this one at the Coolidge, but they haven’t opened it yet, and there really wasn’t much in the way of alternatives. See the documentary before the film it’s based on is re-released!
INSIDE DEEP THROAT examines the unanticipated lasting cultural impact generated by DEEP THROAT, a sexually explicit film first shown in a midtown Manhattan adult theatre in 1972 that quickly became the flashpoint for an unprecedented social and political firestorm. Generally considered the most profitable film of all time (produced for less than $25,000 but earning countless millions), the barely one-hour movie became compulsory viewing for millions of ordinary Americans and celebrities, as an individual’s fascination or repulsion identified his or her place in the cultural shifts of the time. Written and directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (PARTY MONSTER, THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE).
Director: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato
Cast: Gerard Damiano, Erica Jong, Linda Lovelace (archive footage), Norman Mailer, Harry Reems, Gore Vidal, John Waters, David Winters
Korean cinema has really come into it’s own. At the same time, the Asian “hair horror” genre has taken the U.S. by storm, spawning American remakes left and right. A TALE OF TWO SISTERS is a Korean “hair horror” flick, that’s also a really fascinating family drama! If you missed this gem at last week’s Eye Opener… and I know a lot of you did, make sure you catch it during it’s run at the Kendall this week. In other Kendall related news, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s NOBODY KNOWS has been extended another week, and I can’t recommend it enough! Don’t miss your opportunity to catch this incredibly powerful film before it disappears from the big screen.
Of course the big cinematic event in Boston this week is the Brattle Theatre’s annual Oscar Party! Tickets are going like wildfire, so don’t waste a moment to reserve your spot for this gala event. The pre-party fundraiser gets you delicious food from Noir and Finale, an open bar, and some really incredibly silent auction items, along with a crowd decked out in indie chic and a red carpet.. all for only $50! Plus you’ll be supporting a terrific non-profit theatre. Members (and anyone who pays the 50 bucks for the pre-party) are also invited to hang out at the Brattle to watch the Oscars projected on the big screen. It’s not Chlotrudis Awards, but it is a lot of fun to watch Hollywood’s big show (and sometimes collectively make fun of it!) I can’t tell you how fun this event is, and lots of your Chlotrudis pals will be in the audience, so come on down! E-mail the Brattle at rsvp@brattlefilm.org to reserve your spot at the Oscars!
Because of the Oscar’s Gala event, the Sunday Eye Opener will be taking a break this weekend, so sleep in for a change! But check back here next week because Ned has already lined up the film, and it’s sure to be a much-discussed experience.
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, February 25 – March 3.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
10th Annual Bugs Bunny Film Festival!
All New Matinee Revue (Fri. – Sun.)
Recent Raves
Notre Musique (Fri. & Sat.)
In the Realms of the Unreal (Mon. & Tue.)
Dolls (Wed.)
Bright Future (Thu.)
The Brattle Film Foundation Presents
The Oscar Gala and Pre-Party! (Sun.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Hotel Rwanda
Million Dollar Baby
Watermarks
Midnite Madness
TDB Records Presents The One A.M. Radio Show (Fri.)
Found Magazine PResents Found Video Show (Sat.)
Double Feature (Mon.)
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
Balagan Presents
Abigail Child (Tue.)
FEI Theatres Capitol Theatres, Arlington
Hosue of Flying Daggers Nominated for a Best Cinematography Chlotrudis Award!
Finding Neverland
Kinsey Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Chlotrudis Award!
Being Julia
FEI Theatres Somerville Theatres, Somerville
House of Flying Daggers Nominated for a Best Cinematography Chlotrudis Award!
Finding Neverland
The Motorcycle Diaries (Sun. – Tue. & Thu.) Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay Chlotrudis Award!
Bombay Cinema Presents
Black (Fri. – Sun.)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
The Films of Hirokazu Koreeda
August Without Him (Fri.)
Lessons from a Calf and However (Fri.)
Heimatfilm
Black Farmer’s Girl (Sat.)
The Farmer’s Perjury (Sat.)
Deleuze: Philosophy and Film
Film and Variety (Sun.) Live piano accompaniment
Korean Cinema
The Housemaid (Mon.)
Black and White on Screen
Imitation of Life (Mon.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Cast!
Being Julia
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
A Tale of Two Sisters
Nobody Knows
Bride & Prejudice
Inside Deep Throat
Born into Brothels
Bad Education Nominated for Best Actor and Best Movie Chlotrudis Awards!
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay!
Hotel Rwanda
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (ineligible)
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Bride & Prejudice
Imaginary Heroes
A Very Long Engagement
Born into Brothels
Sideways Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Supporting Actress!
The Sea Inside
Closer (ineligible)
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible) (ineligible)
Loew’s Harvard Square, Cambridge
A Very Long Engagement
Closer (ineligible)
Million Dollar Baby (ineligible)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
African Film Festival
Agogo Eewo (Sat.)
Three Short African Films (Sat.)
Return to Kandahar (Sat. & Sun.)
Hollow City (Sun.)
Hong Kong Cinema
Days of Being Wild (Sat.)
Maurice Pialat Retrospective
Naked Childhood (Wed.)
The Mouth Agape (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Bad Education Nominated for Best Actor and Best Movie Chlotrudis Awards!
West Newton Cinema, West Newton
Hotel Rwanda
The Chorus
Finding Neverland
Kinsey Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Chlotrudis Award!
House of Flying Daggers Nominated for a Best Cinematography Chlotrudis Award!
Paper Clips
Being Julia
Vera Drake Nominated for FOUR Chlotrudis Awards, including Best Actress!
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Paper Clips
UPCOMING EVENTS!
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BU CINEMATHEQUE RETURNS!
Thursday, February 24: AN EVENING WITH HIRAM MARTINEZ.
640 Comm.Ave., Room B-05, 7 pm.
Each year, the BU Cinematheque searches out one low-budget indie feature of excellence which can be a model and inspiration for university film production students. Hence, Four Dead Batteries, a complex, humane, and often hilarious story of the lives and screwed-up loves of a four-member New York improv comedy group. A prize-winner in 2004 at eight film festivals, Four Dead Batteries is written and directed by Hiram Martinez, a precociously talented 24-year-old college drop-out, who will speak at the BU screening. The official advertising tag-lines for this film: “From the guys who saw Rushmore and American Beauty.”
Wednesday, March 2: AN AFTERNOON WITH JONATHAN NOSSITER.
The BU College of Communication, 640 Comm.Ave., Room 217, 3:30 pm. (NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE.)
Nossiter, who won the Sundance Grand Prize for Sunday (1977), returns to documentary (the Quentin Crisp-featured RESIDENT ALIEN) for Mondovino, a very rare non-fiction official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. For this expansive, illuminating new work, snuck at BU prior to its Spring theatrical release, Nossiter traveled the world interviewing farmers, vintners, wine experts, taking note of the global war between small-time growers of fabulous wines pitted against corporations making bland product by the truck-load. In real life, Nossiter is also a trained sommelier, designing wine lists for fine New York restaurants.
Thursday, March 4: LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF, 640 Comm. Ave, Room B-05, 6:30 pm. (NOTE EARLY TIME.)
It’s not on the Oscar radar, but Thom Anderson’s LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF was winner of the Village Voice American Film Critics poll for the best documentary of 2004. It’s a 2 1/2 hour compilation of scenes from LA-set movies, many lost, odd, obscure, “a spectrum,” said BU film professor, Roy Grundmann, in a review, “from prestige melodramas to B-movie balderdash, from high-tech neo-noir to gay porn.” What does LA mean, as symbol, as topography, as background for films as diverse as LA Confidential, Chinatown, and Who Killed Roger Rabbit? A discussion afterward with Professor Grundmann, Boston Globe film critic, Ty Burr, and Gerald Peary, programmer for the BU Cinematheque. (LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF will be shown theatrically at the Brattle March 25-27.)
March 6 ‘ 24, Copresented with, and at, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston WHISKY, by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll (Uruguay/Argentinia/Germany/Spain, 2004, 94 min., Spanish with English
subtitles)
Sunday March 6, 1:30pm, with directors Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll present Thursday, March 10, 8:00pm, Sunday, March 13, 3:45pm Thursday, March 24, 6:00pm
A multiple prize-winner at Cannes, this droll tale from Uruguay concerns Jacobo, the graying Jewish owner of a Montevideo sock factory, and his manager Marta, who have barely communicated with each other in their daily routine over the years. After a twenty-year absence, Jacobo’s younger brother Herman announces that he is returning to Montevideo to attend the unveiling of their mother’s headstone (a Jewish tradition observed one year after a funeral). Anticipating this visit, Jacobo asks Marta to “help out at home” and pose as his spouse.
Preceded by the short film AS FOLLOWS, by Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj, the irreverent story of a boy’s Bar Mitzvah and the religious rituals and family traditions it entails.
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.
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Tuesday, March 15, 7pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD with director Avi Nesher in person'(Israel/France, 2004, 110 minutes, English/Hebrew/French with English subtitles),
Charming, sexy, and comical, TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD takes us back to 1969, when two Jewish immigrant families – one Indian, the other Moroccan – become unlikely neighbors in the middle of the Israeli desert. Each asserting its own identity, the families become involved in a culture war that touches on everything from laundry soap to cricket. Meanwhile, each family’s teenage daughter negotiates the landscape of the sexual revolution – as do older family members, who try to be discreet about their actions. In the process, Sara (Liraz Charhi) and Nicole (Garti Netta) break through their families’
resentments to forge a bond of friendship.’Presented with generous support from the Consulate General of Israel to New England.
Tickets: $15 general admission; $12 for seniors, students, members of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation and Boston Jewish Film Festival.’To purchase tickets in advance with a credit card, visit http://www.coolidge.org and select Events
This screening of TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD is generously supported by the Consulate General of Israel to New England.
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President
Speaking of Kore-eda, you’ve got another chance to catch DISTANCE, one of his unreleased in the U.S. films, which is playing again Friday night, February 18, at the Harvard Film Archive. This dreamlike examination of a group of people who all have connections with victims of Japan’s seren gas subway tragedy is a challenging piece for fans of the filmmakers. I’m disappointed taht I will not be able to catch this film again after seeing it in 2002 at the Toronto Film Festival. It could definitely use a second viewing. Another HFA film that you might want to catch is Tuesday night’s screening of 
We will certainly miss Ivy leading the discussion for this week’s Sunday Eye Opener, the latest in the Asian “hair-horror” genre, A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, but we’re thrilled to have Clinton McClung, Program Director for the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and Chlotrudis Board Treasurer, who will be filling in this week! It’s sure to be pretty lively. A TALE OF TWO SISTERS is our second film in two weeks from Korea, and as we saw last weekend, Korea is putting out some pretty challenging films! Chlotrudis members can pay $25 for the remainder of the series (which goes through early April… still quite a bargain!) or just pay $10 to drop in for a single day. But I will give you a little preview: we’re hoping to have a guest discussion leader on March 20 (Chlotrudis Day) who was an award winner last year! THAT’s an event you won’t want to miss!
covered on foot but most of the other locations in and around New York require a car as do many of the chapters in the Hollywood book. Of course, one doesn’t really need to go to New York or LA. It’s fun just reading about everything from the rooftop studios in Manhattan where the first movies were made to the secret locations of classic and pop culture films shot on both coasts, not to mention looking at the archival and contemporary photographs Alleman has assembled to illustrate the text. Chlotrudis member Bruce Kingsley assisted Alleman in the research and writing of both volumes.
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Gordy Hoffman is the brainchild of BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Gordy’s first produced screenplay, 
If you missed last week’s Monday Night at the Movies excursion to the Harvard Film Archive for Rodney Evans and his film, 
Nominations for the 11th annual CHLOTRUDIS AWARDS were voted upon by the society’s membership on January 22, 2005. This year’s slate of nominees is diverse and wide-ranging, with no one film dominating the pack. In all, 38 films received nominations, representing 34 different countries and in 12 different languages.
Hard on LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE’s heels with 4 nominations each are Mike Leigh’s 
Both young ladies were tough in their own way, but sweet-natured at the core. Get ready for a change.
Another film receiving general release this week is a Best Documentary Academy Award nominee, BORN INTO BROTHELS. I’ve heard raves about this film from new member Beth Caldwell, and it’s only playing for a week at the Kendall after it’s premiere as opening night at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the MFA. Try to squeeze this amazing film where writers/directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman offer a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes.