My Dog Tulip and other films
We got the new Cinematheque schedule. The highlight? The movie on the cover of the schedule is really called My Dog Tulip. It's an animated film about a man and his dog. It plays December 9, 10 and 11, and I suspect we'll be going, even if it's not about our dog Tulip.
They have all four of the Mr Hulot comedies on the schedule this time around. These keep coming up on various best-of lists, most notably the first one, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, which plays this Thursday and Saturday. Mr. Hulot is physical comedy in the manner of Chaplin or Keaton.
tigerlily_blue and I saw Leaves of Grass in Anchorage at a dinner theater called the Bear Tooth. Ed Norton plays both halves of a set of twin brothers. One is a clean cut classics professor; the other is a long haired pot dealer. They haven't seen each other in years, but when the dealer needs the perfect alibi he tricks the professor into coming home. Things go wrong in very unpredictable ways. The movie is sort of Coen Brothers. It tries a lot of things and not all of them work, but it's never boring. It plays this weekend on Friday and Saturday.
I saw the preview for The Disappearance of Alice Creed when I was at the Cinematheque last week. Both the preview and the reviews show a heist movie with lots of double-crosses and intrigue, which is just how I like it. It plays Friday and Saturday of this weekend.
Those of you who like the band The Magnetic Fields might be interested in the documentary "Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields" which will be shown by the Cinematheque at the Capitol Theater on Veteran's Day.
Tilda Swinton first achieved major fame with a turn as the gender-shifting Orlando. The Cinematheque shows it on November 13 and 14. That same weekend we have a documentary for those of you who thought that the Hurt Locker wasn't authentic enough. Restrepo, follows an Army platoon in Afghanistan.
In all honesty, the plot summary for The Portuguese Nun isn't too gripping, but it says the movie is 'suffused with fado,' which I've recently become obsessed with. Plays November 18 and 19.
I've had good luck with Australian crime movies before, and Animal Kingdom looks to be another winner. A teenager's mother dies of an overdoes, so he goes to live with his grandmother, who happens to be the godfather of the local crime family. Does he get pulled into the family business? Plays December 2 and 5.
And if you get to the Cinematheque early, you can see the free exhibit Anatomica Aesthetica at the Reinberger galleries next to the theater. From the website: "Disease, tumors, and teratology seem like unusual subjects for artists, but the history of art is filled with examples of medical maladies. Images of deformity and dissection evoke a mixture of anguish, sympathy, and wonder." It's open until 12/18.
They have all four of the Mr Hulot comedies on the schedule this time around. These keep coming up on various best-of lists, most notably the first one, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, which plays this Thursday and Saturday. Mr. Hulot is physical comedy in the manner of Chaplin or Keaton.
tigerlily_blue and I saw Leaves of Grass in Anchorage at a dinner theater called the Bear Tooth. Ed Norton plays both halves of a set of twin brothers. One is a clean cut classics professor; the other is a long haired pot dealer. They haven't seen each other in years, but when the dealer needs the perfect alibi he tricks the professor into coming home. Things go wrong in very unpredictable ways. The movie is sort of Coen Brothers. It tries a lot of things and not all of them work, but it's never boring. It plays this weekend on Friday and Saturday.
I saw the preview for The Disappearance of Alice Creed when I was at the Cinematheque last week. Both the preview and the reviews show a heist movie with lots of double-crosses and intrigue, which is just how I like it. It plays Friday and Saturday of this weekend.
Those of you who like the band The Magnetic Fields might be interested in the documentary "Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields" which will be shown by the Cinematheque at the Capitol Theater on Veteran's Day.
Tilda Swinton first achieved major fame with a turn as the gender-shifting Orlando. The Cinematheque shows it on November 13 and 14. That same weekend we have a documentary for those of you who thought that the Hurt Locker wasn't authentic enough. Restrepo, follows an Army platoon in Afghanistan.
In all honesty, the plot summary for The Portuguese Nun isn't too gripping, but it says the movie is 'suffused with fado,' which I've recently become obsessed with. Plays November 18 and 19.
I've had good luck with Australian crime movies before, and Animal Kingdom looks to be another winner. A teenager's mother dies of an overdoes, so he goes to live with his grandmother, who happens to be the godfather of the local crime family. Does he get pulled into the family business? Plays December 2 and 5.
And if you get to the Cinematheque early, you can see the free exhibit Anatomica Aesthetica at the Reinberger galleries next to the theater. From the website: "Disease, tumors, and teratology seem like unusual subjects for artists, but the history of art is filled with examples of medical maladies. Images of deformity and dissection evoke a mixture of anguish, sympathy, and wonder." It's open until 12/18.