christmas showtimes

What to watch this Christmas... Black Swan is starting at St Anthony today (still at the Lagoon).  True Grit is at St Anthony, The Heights & The Lagoon.  If neither of those sound like good Christmas flicks, then you probably won't want to check out the Leo Fuchs story of Jewish assimilation in American Matchmaker, also playing at St Anthony.  John Lennon fans might enjoy seeing the Twin Cities Film Fest favorite Nowhere Boy, playing at the Parkway starting this Friday (showtimes TBD).  If it's Christmas films you must watch, though, you can check out A Christmas Story and It's A Wonderful Life at Riverview until tomorrow.  Here's random showtimes:

•St Anthony:

For the week of December 17 - December 23
Black Swan (R) runtime 1 hr 43 mins	Wed & Thu: (4:25), 7:15, 9:55
Fair Game (PG-13) runtime 1 hr 44 mins	Fri - Sun: (1:15), (4:15), 7:15, 9:45 Mon & Tue: (4:15), 7:15, 9:45
The Fighter (R) runtime 1 hr 54 mins	Fri - Sun: (1:25), (4:20), 7:05, 9:40 Mon & Tue: (4:20), 7:05, 9:40 Wed: (4:20), 7:05, 9:35 Thu: (4:20), 9:35
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest () runtime 2 hr 28 mins	Fri & Sat: (1:00), (4:00), 9:55 Sun: (1:00), 9:55 Mon & Tue: (4:00), 7:00, 9:55
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (PG-13) runtime 2 hr 26 mins	Fri - Sun: (1:00), (4:00), 7:00, 9:50 Mon & Tue: (4:00), 7:00, 9:50
Little Fockers (PG-13) runtime 1 hr 38 mins	Wed & Thu: (4:30), 7:30, 9:40
TRON Legacy () runtime 2 hr 7 mins	Fri - Sun: (1:20), (4:10), 7:10, 9:55 Mon - Thu: (4:10), 7:10, 9:55
True Grit (PG-13) runtime 1 hr 50 mins	Wed & Thu: (4:15), 7:10, 9:45

For the week of December 24 - December 30
American Matchmaker (NR) runtime 1 hr 27 mins	Fri & Sat: (4:30 PM)
Black Swan (R) runtime 1 hr 43 mins	Fri: (1:50), 7:15 Sat - Tue: (1:50), 7:15, 9:55 Wed & Thu: (1:50), (4:25), 7:15, 9:55
The Fighter (R) runtime 1 hr 54 mins	Fri: (1:35), (4:20), 7:05 Sat - Thu: (1:35), (4:20), 7:05, 9:35
Little Fockers (PG-13) runtime 1 hr 38 mins	Fri: (1:35), (4:20), 7:05 Sat - Thu: (1:35), (4:20), 7:05, 9:35
Ronia The Robber's Daughter (NR) runtime 2 hr 6 mins	Sun - Tue: (4:30 PM)
TRON Legacy () runtime 2 hr 7 mins	Fri: (1:30), (4:10), 7:00 Sat - Thu: (1:30), (4:10), 7:00, 9:50
True Grit (PG-13) runtime 1 hr 50 mins	Fri: (1:40), (4:15), 7:10 Sat - Thu: (1:40), (4:15), 7:10, 9:45

•Riverview (through Thursday):

• Despicable Me
  11:15AM
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
  1:15PM
• A Christmas Story
  4:00PM
  6:00PM
• It's A Wonderful Life
  8:00PM

•The Heights:

Wednesday December 22	"TRUE GRIT" (PG-13)   4:25 PM, 7:10 PM
Thursday December 23	"TRUE GRIT" (PG-13)   4:25 PM, 7:10 PM
Friday December 24	"HEIGHTS THEATER CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS EVE"
Saturday December 25	"TRUE GRIT" (PG-13)   1:45 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:10 PM, 9:40 PM
Sunday December 26	"TRUE GRIT" (PG-13)   1:45 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:10 PM, 9:40 PM

•Landmark (through Thursday):

• EDINA CINEMA
  (651) 649-4416
• Fair Game  
  (2:20 4:50) 7:30 9:50
• White Material  
  (1:45 4:20) 7:00 9:45
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest  
  (2:10 5:15) 8:20
• All Good Things  
  (2:00 4:40) 7:20 9:40

• UPTOWN THEATRE
  (612) 825-6006
• The Wizard of Oz  
  (2:15 4:30) 7:00 9:15

• LAGOON CINEMA
  (612) 825-6006
• Black Swan  
  (1:00 2:40 4:00 5:10) 7:00 7:40 9:30 10:10
  Dolby Digital
• The Tempest  
  (2:30 5:00) 7:30 10:00
  Dolby Digital
• True Grit  
  (2:20 4:50) 7:20 9:50
  Dolby Digital, No Passes
• I Love You Phillip Morris  
  (2:25 4:55) 7:25 9:55
  Dolby Digital, No Passes

melody gilbert films at parkway this weekend

This weekend the Parkway Theater will be screening Minneapolis documentarian Melody Gilbert's films, including her recent film on the life of Walter Mondale, Fritz, and her tale of underground expeditions, Urban Explorers.  Many of these screenings will be followed a Q&A session with film participants, including the movie Disconnected, where I'll be fielding questions as the film's main editor.  You heard me. Be there and ask me all sorts of goofy crap.  I can take it.  Here are showtimes plus a trailer for Disconnected, so y'all can get prepped:

Friday, Dec. 3rd
6 pm: Disconnected
7:30pm: Married at the Mall (with Melody's new short doc Tami Tushie's Toys)
9:15 Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness
10:30 After-party @ Pepitos (next door) - Half-price apps and 2-for-1 drinks

Saturday, Dec. 4
3pm: Whole
4:30pm: A Life Without Pain (with MN family featured in the film)

Sunday, Dec. 5
6pm: Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story

Monday, Dec. 6th (Melody Gilbert will not be on hand)
Disconnected 5:40pm, A Life Without Pain 7:15pm, Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness 9pm

Tuesday, Dec. 7th (Melody Gilbert will not be on hand)
Married At The Mall 5:40pm, Whole 7:15pm, Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story 9:00pm

Wednesday, Dec. 8th
7pm: NUMB (sneak preview/fundraiser) (* note: Not part of the "MG Movie Marathon." Separate ticket required). Melody Gilbert will be appearing.

Also Wednesday: Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness 9:00pm

Thursday, Dec. 9th (Melody Gilbert wiil not be on hand)
Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story 5:40pm, A Life Without Pain 7:15pm, Urban Exploreres: Into The Darkness 9:00pm

halloween-themed screenings

We got a bunch, so sit tight.

Creature From The Black Lagoon. Fri (9:55), Sat (2:00 3:45 5:30 8:00), Sun (2:00 3:45 5:30 7:30 9:15).  It's old and in 3-D!

A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discover a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free. The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée of one of the expedition, with whom it has fallen in love. In glorious 3-D!

The Nightmare Before Christmas. Fri & Sat; 11:30 @ Riverview.  Tim Burton's claymation holiday-fusion piece:

Despite having recently presided over a very successful Halloween, Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is bored with his job and feels that life in Halloweenland lacks meaning. Then he stumbles upon Christmastown and promptly decides to make the Yuletide his own.

Hausu. Sun; 5:15 7:00 8:45 10:30 @ Trylon. Not to be missed by campy horror enthusiasts.  Apparently Criterion agrees:

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movieHouse (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equally absurd and nightmarish, House might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet. Never before available on home video in the United States, it’s one of the most exciting cult discoveries in years.

Strait Jacket. Sun; 7:30 @ The Heights. Presented with Jazz88.

Joan Crawford is really brilliant in this outrageous over the top William castle directed “Axe-ploitation” thriller from 1964. Written by Psycho author Robert Bloch, it tells the tale of Lucy (Joan Crawford) who twenty years earlier took an Axe and murdered her cheating husband and his mistress in a fit of rage, now she has been released from the Asylum cured. But is she, as suddenly strange and horrible things begin to happen all over again. This is a true cult camp horror classic that is not to be missed on the big screen!!! DIGITAL PRESENTATION. 

If those don't tickle your fancy you can instead check out Rocky Horror Picture Show, Paranormal Activity 2 or Enter the Void.

last chance screenings: sept 2

Here's your last chance to see these films before they leave Minneapolis theaters tomorrow:

•Lagoon

Inception - (2:00, 5:10), 8:30

•The Parkway

Nora's Will - 5:20, 7:10, 9:00

•Riverview

The Last Airbender - 1:00, 5:00
The Secret In Their Eyes - 9:00
The Sorcerer's Apprentice - 3:00, 7:00

•St. Anthony Main

The Extra Man - (4:20), 7:20, 9:45
I Am Love - (4:10), 7:05
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World - 7:10, 9:50

last chance screenings: august 26th

Landmark Theaters

Everyone Else (Lagoon) @ 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:40
The Extra Man (Edina, although moving to St. Anthony tomorrow) @ 5:45

St. Anthony Main

Farewell @ 4:30, 9:00
Videocracy @ 7:00
The Other Guys @ 4:15, 7:20, 9:55

Riverview

Marmaduke @ 12:45
The Karate Kid @ 2:30
Prince of Persia @ 5:00
Knight and Day @7:15
The Weight @ 9:30

Basically everything's leaving this theater after today.

The Parkway

La Mission @ 9:00
Nora's Will @ 5:20, 7:10