Hello Film Lovers!
Many Chlotrudis members have already seen the film chosen for next week’s Monday Night Movie of the Week, but it is so great, and is very likely going to be in the running for Best Documentary of the Year, I need to encourage still more people to see it. That film is DIG!, playing at the Kendall Square Theatre, 7:20 p.m. You don’t have to be a fan of either of the bands in question to enjoy this finely made film. Do yourself a favor and catch it during it’s one week run at the Kendall.
Shot over seven years, DIG! chronicles the rivalry of musicians Anton Newcombe, leader of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, head of The Dandy Warhols. From the moment they met, the two bands quickly bonded over a desire to not conform to the tastes of the recording industry. Yet their choices over how to express their creativity and originality in a profit-driven industry eventually put them at irreconcilable odds. Writer/director Ondi Timoner’s film reveals both musicians’ loves and obsessions, gigs and recordings, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers’as they unfold with the passage of time.
Directed by Ondi Timoner
I’m sending this message to you from the New York Library Association Conference in Rochester, NY (yes, I had dinner with Marilyn last night!) so it’s going to be very brief, and the website won’t be updated with images until I return on Saturday. However, do make plans to come to the Sunday Eye Opener this week, as the Brattle presents a sneak preview of Tsai Ming-Liang’s GOOD BYE DRAGON INN. Many of you know how much I admire this filmmaker (whose last film was the sublime WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?) Don’t miss it!
See you at the movies!
Playing this week, October 22 – 28.
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Tribute to Elmer Bernstein
Sudden Fear (Fri.)
Sweet Smell of Success and Walk on the Wild Side (Sat.)
Films by Charles and Ray Eames (Sun.)
Far From Heaven (Sun.)
An American Werewolf in London (Mon.)
Cape Fear and Devil in a Blue Dress (Tue.)
Magnificent Seven
Midnite Madness
Animal House
Sunday Eye Opener
Good Bye Dragon Inn (Sun.)
Boston Irish Film Festival – Closing Night Presentation!
BIFF 2004 EXCELLENCE AWARD CEREMONY
Gabriel Byrne in Person, Hosted by Brian O’Donovan (Mon.)
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
I Heart Huckabees
The Motorcycle Diaries
Films to See Before You Vote
Hijacking Catastrophe(Fri. – Sun.)
Weapons of Mass Deception (Fri. – Sun.)
Brothers in Arms (Fri. – Sun.)
Orwell Rolls in His Grave (Fri. – Sun.)
Bush’s Brain (Mon.)
Preventive Warriors (Tue.)
Let’s Get Frank with Barney Frank in person! (Tue.)
Liberty Bound
Horns and Halos (Thu.)
Balagan Bushwhacked (Thu.)
Midnites!
Buffy Sing-Along Party with Queer Soup (Fri.)
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut (Fri.)
Punk Rock Holocaust (Sat.)
Kung Fu!
Mr. Vampire 4 (Sat.)
Duplex Planet 25th Anniversary Celebration
Legibly Speaking (Mon.)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Boston Irish Film Festival
Rat and The Devil You Know (Fri.)
Unexpected Openings: North Ireland’s Prisoners & Walled City Stories (Sat.)
May the Road Rise Up (Sat.)
Some Other Place (Sat.)
Beyond the Pale (Sat.)
Dear Boy: The Story of Michael MacLiammoir and Return to Glennascaul (Sun.)
The Book that Wrote Itself (Sun.)
Nora
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Tootsie (Mon.)
Cin’ Fran’s
The Rules of the Game (Mon.)
Film Architectures
La Notte (Tue.)
Selected Films of Roy Andersson
Giliap (Tue.)
The Moving Image and Visual Representation
L’Avventura (Wed.)
Adventures in Surrealism
L’etoile de mer (Wed.)
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Wed.)
Entr’acte (Wed.)
Un Chien Andalou (Wed.)
Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Motorcycle Diaries
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
Cellular
Gloomy Sunday
Shaun of the Dead
Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Dig!
Primer
Being Julia
Stage Beauty
Tarnation
The Motorcycle Diaries
A Dirty Shame
Garden State
Maria Full of Grace
Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Primer
The Motorcycle Diaries
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
What the #$*! Do We Know
A Dirty Shame
Garden State
Before Sunset
Loews Theatres Copley Place, Boston
Celsius 41.11
Th’se: The Story of Saint Th’se of Lisieux
Vera Drake
Hero
Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
Garden State
Bright Young Things
What the #$*! Do We Know
Harvard Square, Cambridge
Vera Drake
Team America: World Police
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston Greek Film Festival
Oxygen (Fri.)
Kalabush (Fri.)
A Song is Not Enough (Sat.)
New England Film Artists Present
Smoke and Mirrors: a Geisha Story (Sat.)
Cambodian History
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Sat., Sun. & Thu.)
World’s Best TV Ads
British Advertising Films of 2003 (Sat. & Thu.)
Art on Film
Russian Ark (Sun.)
Back by Popular Demand
Since Otar Left (Thu.)
Pre-Halloween Fright
Eerie Stories (Thu.)
The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
What the #$*! Do We Know (ends Fri.)
The Motorcycle Diaries (starts Sat.)
Coming Soon!
Chlotrudis 5th Annual Short Film Festival!
at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Nov. 1, 7 p.m. & The Brattle Theatre, Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m.
Gerald Peary’s BU Cinematheque
Filmmakers discuss their films in an intimate setting… for FREE!
An Evening with Tsai Ming-Liang! Room B-05, 640 Comm. Ave.
Rebels of a Neon God Thursday, October 21, 7 p.m. Hear Tsai Ming-Liang in an intimate setting!
Boston Jewish Film Festival
Full schedule announced! Tickets on sale now!
November 3 – 14
Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President
Get ready, because one of the best-organized film festivals of Boston is returning for its 16th year starting in November. The 
The BJFF kicks of with not one, but two opening nights! On November 3, the Museum of Fine Arts kicks things off with the Belgian comedy, THE RASHEVSKI’S TANGO (pictured right). The following night, the Coolidge Corner Theatre has its own opening night with WONDROUS OBLIVION, a beguiling British offering featuring Delroy Lindo. The festival closes at the Museum of Fine Arts on November 14 with a film by Daniel Burman, one of Argentina’s rising directorial stars, called LOST EMBRACE. One of the several films I hope to catch comes from Israeli filmmakers Lina and Slava Chaplin. Their latest film PAPER SNOW (above left) is a portrait of the crazy, romantic, early days of Israel’s Habimah Theatre, with actors and actresses whose personal lives were as passionate as the roles they played.
The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film held its fourth seasonal cocktail party this past Saturday and it was a big hit! Billed as a “Swap Party,” members brought DVD’s they wanted to swap to the party. The party was also a membership drive, so members were encouraged to bring guests. All guests got a DVD whether they brought one with them or not! What a prize! And we’re not talking turkeys here either (well, not all of them… but then one man’s turkey, is another man’s award winner!) but some quality independent films. Some of the DVD’s available for swapping were 28 DAYS LATER, THE SWEET HEREAFTER and THE DEEP END. To the left, see Entertainment Committee member, Diane Young, show off a potential swap: BUBBLE BOY, starring Chlotrudis favorite Jake Gyllenhaal.
Of course, the point of this party was to increase membership, and Chlotrudis members were encouraged to bring potential member-guests. Carolyn (far right) did a great job, bringing two potential guests (Mary Ann, left, and Brooke, center) who had a great time and went home with a couple of great DVD’s. Another high point of the night was the “Guilty Pleasure” game. Each attendee was instructed to write down their “Guilty Pleasure” and put it in a hat. Then hostess extraordinnaire, Emily Neill, drew the names out of the hat and read the film’s title. Everyone else made a guess as to whose guilty pleasure it was, and the person who guessed the most correct won a prize. Congratulations, Marlin, on guessing the most correct answers!
The 5th Annual Chlotrudis Short Film Festival expands this year into an additional venue. On Monday, November 1, films will be screened at the 
After viewing the films, vote for your choice of Best Short Film! Two awards, a Chlotrudis Award and an Audience Award will be presented at the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony next March at the Brattle Theatre.
Many of you have heard me rave about the films of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang. His Chlotrudis nominated 
If you’re looking for some interesting movies to catch over the weekend, stop by the Brattle Theatre and take part in the 2nd Annual 
Last month, a large groups of Chlotrudis members and friends headed to Canada for the Toronto International Film Festival. Thirteen of us took over a bed & breakfast, and saw a lot of movies. Now you can read about the films that some of us saw in the 
Despite appearances, the Sunday Eye Opener doesn’t usually have three documentaries in a row! As Ivy says, it must be an indication of the times for indie film. This week’s Eye Opener film is the much anticipated TARNATION. Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette documents his life starting when he is 11-years-old. In TARNATION, he weaves a psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots, Super-8 home movies, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family torn apart by dysfunction and reunited through the power of love.
Attention all you Pedro Almodovar fans out there, and I know there are a few of you! The Real Colegio Complutense and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in cooperation with the Harvard Film Archive and the Consulate of Spain present The Pleasure of Cinema: a Conversation with Pedro Almodovar! Spanish film director Pedro Almod’, celebrated for his brilliant plays with melodrama, camp, kitsch and for his self-conscious and politically inflected control of cinematic form, will be speaking at Harvard University on Tuesday, October 12 at 6 p.m. at the Science Center, Lecture Hall B. The event, titled “The Pleasure of the Cinema: A Conversation with Pedro Almod’,” is free and open to the public. The director will give an overview of his work, with special reference to his cinematic and cultural models and to questions of aesthetics and politics. He will then take questions from the audience. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity!
The Bratle Film Foundation and the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film had a good crowd for this week’s Eye Opener opener. The film, JESUS, YOU KNOW met with pretty mixed reviews, but the discussion sure was lively. This week we continue in the documentary trend, but the film promises to be a lot more fun. INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS is reminiscent of 
In 2003 renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog set out to make a documentary about Scotland’s infamous Loch Ness monster. Herzog intended “to explore the origin and the necessity of the monster” rather than to look for the creature itself. Simultaneously, noted filmmaker John Bailey was directing a documentary about Herzog. Incident uses footage from both movies, as it chronicles the making (and unmaking) of Herzog’s never-completed feature. Unusual, controversial, and strangely humorous, the film raises many questions about where reality ends and fiction begins. It is also the portrait of a great adventurer on his most bizarre quest. Written and directed by Zak Penn.
Another film I’m going to try and catch this weekend is sure to be controversial. ANATOMY OF HELL is the latest bit of pornographic philosophy from French director Catherine Breillat. I’ve enjoyed Breillat’s last two films, 
This week’s film is a documentary that’s sure to be thought-provoking. The kick-off film for this semester of the Eye Opener is a sneak preview of an uncommon documentary focusing on the idea of faith. Directed by Ulrich Seidl, JESUS YOU KNOW focuses on six faithful Catholics during their private conversations with God. The film shows the subjects in lengthy shots facing each person during these intimate moments. For more information on the director, read this 
Don’t miss the Brattle’s very special fundraising event taking place on Thursday, September 30. More than 50 artists from near and far have put their art where their hearts are, and donated some stunning works for