I just completed a move to a new apartment, which is exciting but also means no internet for a week. Horrible, I know.
•Tuesday
Rubber @ Trylon; 7:00 & 9:00 (Trylon Premiere Tuesdays). At first glance, this looks like a Trash Film showing, but you'd be wrong to think that. This French film follows a tire with telepathic powers wreaking havoc on a dessert town. Apparently this got negative reviews at Cannes... snooty French. But the soundtrack includes members of the the Ed Banger team, leading them to sell the DVD and soundtrack on its website before its release next Tuesday.
•Wednesday
Wasted on the Young @ Trylon; 7:00 & 9:00 (also showing Thursday). The 7pm times are sold out, but you can check this local feature at the 9pm time slot if you so desire. The movie seems to be about a lot things, so please check out their website (which is really well done, by the way). They shot the whole things on VHS and is available for digital download after the last screening for 99 cents.
Tree of Life @ Walker; 7:30. As part of their Terrance Malick retrospective, the Walker is showing is brand new film Tree of Life, which was released in New York and LA last Friday. The film, which had been heavily sought after by Cannes for their last year festival, recently awarded it the Palme d'Or at this year's fest. If I had to guess, I'd say part of the reason for its showing here before it's scheduled Minnesota release is due in part to it being produced by Bill Pohlad. Also, if you ain't got a ticket, you ain't watching it this Wednesday cause it's sold out.
Also, the Heights is closed this week while they work on the roof. Should be open again this Friday. Good luck with the work, gents!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
mpls movie screenings: weekend of may 27
It's memorial weekend for most, but moving weekend for me. That will explain why this post is brief and a little chaotic. But you'll probably all be up at your cabins this weekend anyway. Enjoying some sun, catching some fish, sipping some drinks, grilling some brats.... But for those lucky few looking for some flicks, listen up:
Take-Up is wrapping up the Takemitsu series with the film Woman in the Dunes. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1964 Cannes and director Hiroshi Teshigahara was nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards. As for the movie, well Take-Up calls it an "existential erotic thriller." You shouldn't need anything else to entice you.
Sat May 28 7:00 9:25
Sun May 29 4:35 7:00
We got some 70's era martial arts coming to you from the folks at BLKMRKTCINEMA. They're screening the film Master of the Flying Guillotine at the Riverview tonight at tomorrow at 11:30. Fans of Wu-Tang Clan might recognize a few of the lines in the film. Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan, and so are most critics apparently as the film has a 90% fresh rating on rotten tomatoes.
Friday & Saturday, May 27th & 28th at 11:30pm.
Admission is $7.
Finally we got some spaghetti westerns playing at St Anthony courtesy of the Film Society (more specifically they're showing Sergio Leone's "The Man With No Name" trilogy, including one of my favorite spaghetti westerns The Good, The Bad And The Ugly). Willow Creek is going retro again this weekend with a screening of the Bill Paxton/Helen Hunt vehicle Twister (Wow, that's really unfortunate timing), and the latest Woody Allen is at Uptown.
Take-Up is wrapping up the Takemitsu series with the film Woman in the Dunes. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1964 Cannes and director Hiroshi Teshigahara was nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards. As for the movie, well Take-Up calls it an "existential erotic thriller." You shouldn't need anything else to entice you.
Woman in the Dunes
The Trylon
Fri May 27 7:00 9:25Sat May 28 7:00 9:25
Sun May 29 4:35 7:00
We got some 70's era martial arts coming to you from the folks at BLKMRKTCINEMA. They're screening the film Master of the Flying Guillotine at the Riverview tonight at tomorrow at 11:30. Fans of Wu-Tang Clan might recognize a few of the lines in the film. Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan, and so are most critics apparently as the film has a 90% fresh rating on rotten tomatoes.
Friday & Saturday, May 27th & 28th at 11:30pm.
Admission is $7.
Finally we got some spaghetti westerns playing at St Anthony courtesy of the Film Society (more specifically they're showing Sergio Leone's "The Man With No Name" trilogy, including one of my favorite spaghetti westerns The Good, The Bad And The Ugly). Willow Creek is going retro again this weekend with a screening of the Bill Paxton/Helen Hunt vehicle Twister (Wow, that's really unfortunate timing), and the latest Woody Allen is at Uptown.
Friday, May 20, 2011
mpls movie screenings: weekend of may 20th
Great movie screenings this weekend, including more Terrence Malick at the Walker, some MSPIFF reruns at St Anthony, and Toru Takemitsu continues to takeover the Trylon.
The folks at Film Society bring back another double bill of MSPIFF favorites to St Anthony this week. Cracks is about a group of British boarding school students and the disturbing love triangle that forms between the group's ringleader, a teacher, and a foreign exchange student. The film was directed by Ridley Scott's daughter Jordan.
The Trylon is screening the Nagisa Oshima film Empire of Passion this weekend as a part of their series on composer Toru Takemitsu. Oshima won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for this story of a young man who murders the husband of his lover. If I were a more forward-looking film buff, I would've cracked open my copy of The Films of Nagisa Oshima, found the passage on this film, and told you something more revealing about this film. Unfortunately that didn't happen this weekend, but maybe somebody will give me another chance and show some Oshima films again in the future. Time will tell, I guess.
The folks at Film Society bring back another double bill of MSPIFF favorites to St Anthony this week. Cracks is about a group of British boarding school students and the disturbing love triangle that forms between the group's ringleader, a teacher, and a foreign exchange student. The film was directed by Ridley Scott's daughter Jordan.
Showtimes: Fri, May 20 & Sat, May 21 at 1:25, 7:15;In Stake Land we follow an orphan and a vampire hunter as they traverse a post-apocalyptic America overrun with supernatural creatures. The film won the Midnight Madness Audience Award at TIFF.
Sun, May 22 at 1:25;
Mon, May 23 - Thu, May 26 at 4:20, 7:15
Showtimes: Fri, May 20 - Sun, May 22 at 4:25, 9:35;The Walker continues their screenings of Terrence Malick films this weekend, showing The Thin Red Line tonight at 7:30 and The New World tomorrow at 7:30. When Malick made Thin Red Line, it had been 20 years since his last film, Days of Heaven. The man hadn't missed a step with this take on the battle of Guadalcanal. The story is a bit hard to follow, but story always seems secondary in Malick's films. There's a tension in each shot, capturing the confusion and uncertainty behind each decision the men make. The sounds in this movie are particularly striking: the sea, the men, the bullets, the explosions, the grass, the animals -- let them guide you through your viewing.
Mon, May 23 - Thu, May 26 at 9:35
The Trylon is screening the Nagisa Oshima film Empire of Passion this weekend as a part of their series on composer Toru Takemitsu. Oshima won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for this story of a young man who murders the husband of his lover. If I were a more forward-looking film buff, I would've cracked open my copy of The Films of Nagisa Oshima, found the passage on this film, and told you something more revealing about this film. Unfortunately that didn't happen this weekend, but maybe somebody will give me another chance and show some Oshima films again in the future. Time will tell, I guess.
Also playing this weekend is a free screening of the Vikings documentary Skol at the Riverview this Saturday morning, a midnight showing of the 1993 Linklater film Dazed and Confused at Willow, the Mozart opera Magic Flute at the Heights this Sunday, and MSPIFF favorite Bill Cunningham New York, the Kelly Reichardt film Meek's Cutoff, and the Academy Award nominated film Incendies all continue their run at Landmark's Edina theater.
Empire of Passion
The Trylon
Fri May 20 7:00 9:00
Sat May 21 7:00 9:00
Sun May 22 5:00 7:00
Monday, May 16, 2011
mpls movie screenings: week of may 16
I just read an invigorating article on punctuation rules. With that in mind, you might see some drastic changes to this blog in the near future...
Tuesday
•The Magic Flute @ Heights; 7:15 (Opera in the Cinema). Mozart finally makes it to the silver screen.
•Carancho @ Trylon; 7:00 & 9:00 (Trylon Premiere Tuesdays). This film from Argentine director Pablo Trapero was entered in the Un Certain Regard portion of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Here's an excerpt of a review posted on Mubi after a showing at the 2010 TIFF:
Trapped in the video-smoothed moral squalor, the film has the inevitability of a noir—a genre touchstone its starkly action-filled conclusion reinforces—but none of that genre’s uncertainly. What is certain is the ugly locality of the film, not quite immersed in the society or humanity of its setting but at the very least realistically curtailed, if not ensnared, by the honestly exaggerated fatal bleakness of Buenos Aires’ menacing night-world.
Wednesday
•Dirty Work @ Trylon; 7:00 (sold out) & 8:30. This documentary looks at community supported agriculture.
Thursday
•Skol: The Documentary @ Heights; 8:00 (Free Screening). Minnesota sports fans are gluttons for punishment, so this doc should be a huge hit. Relive the failures of the Viking's most recent season through the eyes of their fans- oh wait, didn't we already do that in real time last fall?
•Battle Queen Conquers Tokyo @ Bell Museum; 7:00 (Sustainability Film Series). I know the title sounds like an awesome 50's b-movie, but this documentary actually captures Japan's love affair with bugs.
•Unforgiven @ Riverview; 7:00 (Eastwood & Wayne Western Series). Clint Eastwood goes back to the wild west in this 1992 Best Picture winner.
Tuesday
•The Magic Flute @ Heights; 7:15 (Opera in the Cinema). Mozart finally makes it to the silver screen.
•Carancho @ Trylon; 7:00 & 9:00 (Trylon Premiere Tuesdays). This film from Argentine director Pablo Trapero was entered in the Un Certain Regard portion of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Here's an excerpt of a review posted on Mubi after a showing at the 2010 TIFF:
Trapped in the video-smoothed moral squalor, the film has the inevitability of a noir—a genre touchstone its starkly action-filled conclusion reinforces—but none of that genre’s uncertainly. What is certain is the ugly locality of the film, not quite immersed in the society or humanity of its setting but at the very least realistically curtailed, if not ensnared, by the honestly exaggerated fatal bleakness of Buenos Aires’ menacing night-world.
Wednesday
•Dirty Work @ Trylon; 7:00 (sold out) & 8:30. This documentary looks at community supported agriculture.
Thursday
•Skol: The Documentary @ Heights; 8:00 (Free Screening). Minnesota sports fans are gluttons for punishment, so this doc should be a huge hit. Relive the failures of the Viking's most recent season through the eyes of their fans- oh wait, didn't we already do that in real time last fall?
•Battle Queen Conquers Tokyo @ Bell Museum; 7:00 (Sustainability Film Series). I know the title sounds like an awesome 50's b-movie, but this documentary actually captures Japan's love affair with bugs.
•Unforgiven @ Riverview; 7:00 (Eastwood & Wayne Western Series). Clint Eastwood goes back to the wild west in this 1992 Best Picture winner.
Friday, May 13, 2011
mpls movie screenings: weekend of may 13
Happy Friday the 13th everyone!
The Toru Takemitsu series continues at the Trylon with perhaps the most famous selection of the bunch, Harakiri, playing all weekend along side The Face of Another. I have yet to see the latter, but the former is a wonderfully constructed story about the toll poverty and joblessness take on the psyche, even for those as disciplined as a samurai. I'd say it's Kobayashi at his finest, but admittedly I haven't seen any other Kobayashi. But you can believe The Human Condition is somewhere on my must-watch list.
St Anthony is showing a couple of favorites from the recently finished MSPIFF. Illegal tells the story of a Russian mother thrown in jail after it's learned she's been living illegally in Bulgaria for eight years. Aftershock was a domestic blockbuster in China this past year. It starts with the 1976 Tangshen earthquake, that claimed 240,000 lives, and continues to tell the story of China's economic rise until the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. You can find the NYT review here.
The Walker's Terrence Malick retrospective begins today with his debut feature Badlands. While a great movie, I prefer Days of Heaven, if only for its strikingly rich color palette. In the movie, a couple looking for seasonal labor work in north Texas try to con an old farmer. Great performances by Richard Gere and Brooke Adams. Both play this weekend, while his more recent works play the following weekend:
You can also check out Win Win at the Heights, Cedar Rapids at the Parkway, and this Sunday only you can watch The Outsiders at Loring.
The Toru Takemitsu series continues at the Trylon with perhaps the most famous selection of the bunch, Harakiri, playing all weekend along side The Face of Another. I have yet to see the latter, but the former is a wonderfully constructed story about the toll poverty and joblessness take on the psyche, even for those as disciplined as a samurai. I'd say it's Kobayashi at his finest, but admittedly I haven't seen any other Kobayashi. But you can believe The Human Condition is somewhere on my must-watch list.
The Face of Another
The Trylon
Fri May 13 7:00
Sat May 14 9:35
Sun May 15 7:00Sun May 15 4:25
St Anthony is showing a couple of favorites from the recently finished MSPIFF. Illegal tells the story of a Russian mother thrown in jail after it's learned she's been living illegally in Bulgaria for eight years. Aftershock was a domestic blockbuster in China this past year. It starts with the 1976 Tangshen earthquake, that claimed 240,000 lives, and continues to tell the story of China's economic rise until the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. You can find the NYT review here.
The Walker's Terrence Malick retrospective begins today with his debut feature Badlands. While a great movie, I prefer Days of Heaven, if only for its strikingly rich color palette. In the movie, a couple looking for seasonal labor work in north Texas try to con an old farmer. Great performances by Richard Gere and Brooke Adams. Both play this weekend, while his more recent works play the following weekend:
Badlands - Friday, May 13, 2011 7:30 pm
Days of Heaven - Sunday, May 15, 2011 3:00 pm
You can also check out Win Win at the Heights, Cedar Rapids at the Parkway, and this Sunday only you can watch The Outsiders at Loring.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
mpls movie screenings: week of may 10
I'm already a day late on this, so I'll just make it short and sweet.
•Tuesday
Ne Change Rien @ Trylon; 7:00 & 9:00 (Trylon Premiere Tuesdays). This is both your and my last chance to check out this film from Pedro Costa. I'll be there tonight, so I hope to see you there.
•Thursday
True Grit @ Riverview; 7:00 (Classic Western Series). It's the original, but on the big screen.
Greenscreen: A Student Grown Film Night @ Bell Museum; 7:00 (Sustainability Film Series). Films made by U of M students, with an environmental slant.
And finally, here's a short film from the folks at Willow Creek about how retro movie titles are selected at their theater. Enjoy!
•Tuesday
Ne Change Rien @ Trylon; 7:00 & 9:00 (Trylon Premiere Tuesdays). This is both your and my last chance to check out this film from Pedro Costa. I'll be there tonight, so I hope to see you there.
•Thursday
True Grit @ Riverview; 7:00 (Classic Western Series). It's the original, but on the big screen.
Greenscreen: A Student Grown Film Night @ Bell Museum; 7:00 (Sustainability Film Series). Films made by U of M students, with an environmental slant.
And finally, here's a short film from the folks at Willow Creek about how retro movie titles are selected at their theater. Enjoy!
Friday, May 6, 2011
mpls movie screenings: weekend of may 6th
It's all over folks. MSPIFF wrapped up last night with the homegrown Stuck Between Stations, followed by a bumping party at Aster Cafe. For those who missed out on all the fun of the festival, there's still a best of the fest going on now until next Thursday:
At the Trylon, the Toru Takemitsu series continues with the film Pale Flower. The film follows a gangster recently released from prison and his involvement with a gambling addict. It's being released on Criterion on May 17th.
They don't have the rest of the schedule up, but as soon as it is I'll let you know.
Friday, May 6
Saturday, May 7
- AFTERSHOCK -7:00-
- DOSSIER K -9:30-
Sunday, May 8
At the Trylon, the Toru Takemitsu series continues with the film Pale Flower. The film follows a gangster recently released from prison and his involvement with a gambling addict. It's being released on Criterion on May 17th.
The Walker is hosting British conceptual artist Gillian Wearing and a screening of her movie Self Made. Back in 1995 she got one of her first breaks at the Walker in a showcase on young British artists. This documentary features amateurs in an intense acting seminar.
Pale Flower
The Trylon
Fri May 06 7:00 9:00
Sat May 07 7:00 9:00
Sun May 08 5:00 7:00
Saturday, May 7, 20117:30 pmWalker Cinema
And here's a roundup of what's elsewhere: We have The Sound of Music playing all week at the Heights. Cedar Rapids playing all week at the Parkway, which is also showing at the Riverview, along with The Adjustment Bureau among other films. Riverview also has a poll open asking when you want to view a Harry Potter marathon at their theater. When St Anthony isn't showing the best of MSPIFF, you can check out film adaptations Thor and Jane Eyre, and the Paul Giamatti vehicle Win Win. You can also check out the top rated MSPIFF movie, Bill Cunningham New York, at Edina this week, while another fest favorite, Morgan Spurlock's The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, is at the Lagoon. You might also want to check out the Kelly Reichardt film Meek's Cutoff and the Cannes Grand Prix winning Of Gods and Men at Edina.
Monday, May 2, 2011
my mspiff picks: the final week
Thursday is closing night for the 3-week Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, so it's your last chance to get in on the action. These are the films that look most promising to me:
•Monday
Top Pick -- My Joy; 7:00
I'm attracted to post-Soviet Russian life and Eastern European artistry, so I'm a little biased toward this film. There's not much of the story's description on the MSPIFF website, but there are nefarious activities, all captured by Romanian cinematographer Oleg Mutu, who worked on 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. Salon said it was a top pick at Cannes last year, writing, "I thought this mordant, slow-motion horror film about a truck driver's journey into hell -- the title is 100 percent sardonic -- was the most unexpected and arresting picture in the main Cannes competition. If your appetites extend to the bleak and grotesque, you'll want to seek it out."
•Tuesday
Top Pick -- Beginners; 7:00
Director Mike Mills tells the story of a man and his father, who revealed his homosexuality to everyone at the age of 75. Indiewire writes, "Mills’s style is distinctly plucky, but never indulgent. It’s rare that a whiny character can get away with being likable, which is why “Beginners” stays true to the title and feels like something entirely new."
•Wednesday
This is the last day before the closing night film Stuck Between Stations, and I'm at a loss to suggest any one movie. I'd probably see Garbo the Spy before anything else. Not necessarily because I think the filmmaking is noteworthy; it may or may not be, I have no idea. But the story of this World War II spy, who successfully convinced both the Axis and Allies he was working for each of them before faking his own death, sounds fascinating. The movie plays at 5:15.
That's all for now. I'm sure I'll have some fest recap or other fun tidbits for you later this week. Until then, thanks for checking in everyone.
•Monday
Top Pick -- My Joy; 7:00
I'm attracted to post-Soviet Russian life and Eastern European artistry, so I'm a little biased toward this film. There's not much of the story's description on the MSPIFF website, but there are nefarious activities, all captured by Romanian cinematographer Oleg Mutu, who worked on 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. Salon said it was a top pick at Cannes last year, writing, "I thought this mordant, slow-motion horror film about a truck driver's journey into hell -- the title is 100 percent sardonic -- was the most unexpected and arresting picture in the main Cannes competition. If your appetites extend to the bleak and grotesque, you'll want to seek it out."
•Tuesday
Top Pick -- Beginners; 7:00
Director Mike Mills tells the story of a man and his father, who revealed his homosexuality to everyone at the age of 75. Indiewire writes, "Mills’s style is distinctly plucky, but never indulgent. It’s rare that a whiny character can get away with being likable, which is why “Beginners” stays true to the title and feels like something entirely new."
•Wednesday
This is the last day before the closing night film Stuck Between Stations, and I'm at a loss to suggest any one movie. I'd probably see Garbo the Spy before anything else. Not necessarily because I think the filmmaking is noteworthy; it may or may not be, I have no idea. But the story of this World War II spy, who successfully convinced both the Axis and Allies he was working for each of them before faking his own death, sounds fascinating. The movie plays at 5:15.
That's all for now. I'm sure I'll have some fest recap or other fun tidbits for you later this week. Until then, thanks for checking in everyone.
mpls movie screenings: week of may 2
If you're feeling burnt out on the festival, or newscasters pretending like they have information about the death of bin Laden, then you're in luck! We got a lot of other screenings for you this week:
•Tuesday
-Ne Change Rien @ Trylon; 7:00 & 9:00 (Trylon Premiere Tuesdays). Here we have a 2009 film from Portuguese director Pedro Costa. I saw his film Colossal Youth a few years back. It's pace was probably the slowest I've ever experienced at the movies, but it was a moving and wonderfully captured story. I'm very excited to see this one.
-Truck Farm @ St Anthony; 7:00 (Sustainability Film Series & Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival). The directors will be present for this documentary on urban agriculture and the farm that exists in the back of an '86 Dodge pickup.
-Tibet in Song @ The Heights; 7:00. This documentary on Tibetan song and culture won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2009.
•Wednesday
-Color Me Impressed @ The Woman's Club - 7:00; and @ Trylon on Thursday - 7:00 & 9:30. Both shows are sold out. If you can get tickets you'll get to see the director and producer answer questions after the screening of this documentary on Minneapolis 80's rock band The Replacements. The screening is presented by Sound Unseen.
-Mystery Science Theater 3000 @ Bryant Lake Bowl; 9:30.
•Thursday
-Cat People @ The Heights; 7:30. I'm not sure if this movie is a classic, a cult classic or possibly both. This horror film tells the bizarre story of a woman who turns into a cat when aroused. There's a lot to read into that storyline, but it's also powerful in the way it slowly draws the suspense out of the narrative.
-Outlaw Josey Wales @ Riverview; 7:00 (Clint Eastwood and John Wayne Westerns). Clint Eastwood seeks revenge. Well, at least his character does.
-Ming Wong and Phil Collins @ The Walker; 7:30 (Artists' Cinema 2011: Projected Images) Free. A 90 minute program showing work by both these artists.
•Tuesday
-Ne Change Rien @ Trylon; 7:00 & 9:00 (Trylon Premiere Tuesdays). Here we have a 2009 film from Portuguese director Pedro Costa. I saw his film Colossal Youth a few years back. It's pace was probably the slowest I've ever experienced at the movies, but it was a moving and wonderfully captured story. I'm very excited to see this one.
-Truck Farm @ St Anthony; 7:00 (Sustainability Film Series & Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival). The directors will be present for this documentary on urban agriculture and the farm that exists in the back of an '86 Dodge pickup.
-Tibet in Song @ The Heights; 7:00. This documentary on Tibetan song and culture won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2009.
•Wednesday
-Color Me Impressed @ The Woman's Club - 7:00; and @ Trylon on Thursday - 7:00 & 9:30. Both shows are sold out. If you can get tickets you'll get to see the director and producer answer questions after the screening of this documentary on Minneapolis 80's rock band The Replacements. The screening is presented by Sound Unseen.
-Mystery Science Theater 3000 @ Bryant Lake Bowl; 9:30.
•Thursday
-Cat People @ The Heights; 7:30. I'm not sure if this movie is a classic, a cult classic or possibly both. This horror film tells the bizarre story of a woman who turns into a cat when aroused. There's a lot to read into that storyline, but it's also powerful in the way it slowly draws the suspense out of the narrative.
-Outlaw Josey Wales @ Riverview; 7:00 (Clint Eastwood and John Wayne Westerns). Clint Eastwood seeks revenge. Well, at least his character does.
-Ming Wong and Phil Collins @ The Walker; 7:30 (Artists' Cinema 2011: Projected Images) Free. A 90 minute program showing work by both these artists.
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