Chlotrudis Indie Film Wrap-Up, August 1 - 7

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

So, I've been amazingly sporadic with my announcements this summer, but there hasn't been a whole lot going on in the independent film scene. I hope you've been getting out to the movies! There are a couple of things to mention this week though, so here I am. As inexplicable as it is that MAMA MIA! (which I saw and loved) is playing at the Kendall Square Cinema, there are a couple of indies playing there that you should catch as well. WATER LILIES was one of the films Chlotrudis co-presented at the Boston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in May, and it's a strong, coming-of-age tale with refreshing performances. Catherine Breillat (FAT GIRL, ANATOMY OF HELL) is back with an historical, period piece starring Asia Argento called THE LAST MISTRESS. Several of us caught this last year at the Toronto International FIlm Festival, and it's worth catching. I also want to see GIRLS ROCK! a documentary about a girls rock & roll camp that looks absolutely adorable! It's playing this week at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Newburyport Screening Room. Do try to catch it.

Also running this week at the Museum of Fine Arts is the 2008 Roxbury Film Festival. Check their website for complete listings at other venues.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, August 1 - 7, 2008.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Casablanca for Casablanca - Celebrating Casablanca Restaurant's 30th Birthday!
Casablanca (Fri. - Mon.)
Maltese Falcon (Fri. & Sat.)
Play it Again Sam (Sun. & Mon.)
All About Bette
Marked Woman & The Letter (Mon. & Tue.)
Disturbed Suburbs
The Ice Storm (Wed.)
Viva Pedro!
All About My Mother (Thu.)
Special Brattle Benefit Event!
Brattle Theatre Trivia Night! (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Tell No One
Brideshead Revisited
The Wackness
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Sat. - Thu.)
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson
Midnite Madness
Rock Band Tournament! (Fri.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Mongol
The Visitor

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
Mongol
The Visitor

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
The Complete Joseph Losey
The Go-Between (Fri.)
The Damned (Fri.)
A Doll's House Free Screening! (Sun.)
Mr. Klein (Sun.)
Stranger on the Prowl (Mon.)
Blind Date (Mon.)
Conservator's Choice
The Man Without a Body & The Cyclops (Sat.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Brideshead Revisited

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Tell No One
Brideshead Revisited
Baghead
The Last Mistress
Water Lilies
The Wackness
Encounters at the End of the World
Edge of Heaven

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
American Teen
Baghead
The Last Mistress
Mongol
The Visitor

Lexington Flick, Lexington
The Visitor

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
No independent films playing this week!

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art of Film
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (Sat.)
Girl Power on Film
Girls Rock! (Sat. & Thu.)
Roxbury Film Festival
Africa Unite (Sat.)
Africa in Film Today: A Discussion with Charles Burnett (Sat.)
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (Sat.)
The Price of Sugar (Sun.)
Short Films from the Roxbury Film Festival (Sun.)
Steam (Sun.)
Back by Popular Deman
The Rape of Europa (Sun. & Thu.)
New Japanese Cinema
Sakuran (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Girls Rock!

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
Then She Found Me
Tell No One
Brideshead Revisited
The Counterfeiters
Young@Heart
The Edge of Heaven
Up the Yangtze
Constantine's Sword
Encounters at the End of the World

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 31 July 2008

Chlotrudis Indie Film Round-Up, July 4 - 10

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

Wow... I'm super late with this, so I'm going to skip the intro and just post the list of films playing this week. I'll just say, am I the last person to see ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Werner Herzog's visually arresting documentary about Antarctica? I will try to catch that very soon as it has now opened at the Kendall. Today and Thursday mark the final screenings of my beloved JELLYFISH at the Museum of Fine Arts as part of the Boston Jewish Fim Festival's Encore Series (but you can also catch it in a week or so at the Newburyport Screening Room) so don't miss it! Thursday night also marks the opening of the Boston French Film Festival at the MFA.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, July 4 - 10, 2008.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Back by Popular Demand!
Blade Runner: Final Cut (Fri. - Tue.)
Roman Polanski's Passions
Knife in the Water (Wed.)
Repulsion & The Tenant (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Brick Lane
Mongol
A Jihad for Love
Bigger Stronger Faster* (Sat. - Thu.)
Constantine's Sword
Radio Cape Cod (Mon.)
Global Lens Film Series
El Custodio (Sat. & Mon.)
David Lean Centennial
Lawrence of Arabia (Mon.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
No independent films screening this week!

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
Mongol

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Technicolor Dreams
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Sat.)
La Cucaracha & Cobra Woman (Sat.)
The Band Concert & 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Sun.)
The Quiet Man (Sun.)
Slightly Scarlet (Sun.)
Rancho Notorious (Mon.)
Madigan (Mon.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Mongol
War, Inc.

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Encounters at the End of the World
The Edge of Heaven
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Brick Lane
Reprise
My Father My Lord
Alexandra
The Visitor
The Fall

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Mongol
When Did You Last See Your Father
The Visitor

Lexington Flick, Lexington
Mongol
The Visitor

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Mongol
The Visitor

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art of Film
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (Sat., Sun., & Thu.)
Magic Lantern
Spirit of 76 (Sat.)
Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
Jellyfish (Sun. & Thu.)
At Home in Utopia (Sun.)
The Powder and the Glory (Thu.)
The Excitement of Precinema
The Minwa-za Company of Tokyo (Sun.)
Music and Film: Dengue Fever
Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (Wed.)
Boston French Film Festival Opening Night
Shall We Kiss? (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
The Flight of the Red Balloon

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
Then She Found Me
My Father, My Lord

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 6 July 2008

Chlotrudis Indie Film Round-Up, June 27 - July 3.

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

Thank you to the Brattle Theatre for screening Bruce McDonald's THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS for a week starting Friday, June 27. This innovative film starring Ellen Page wowed me in Toronto, and Chlotrudis co-presented the film at the Independent Film Festival of Boston in May. Now the Brattle is running the exclusive area premiere for one week. DON'T MISS THIS FILM! It's quite frankly amazing, and although it's due out on DVD in the next month or so, this is one of those films you really want to see on the big screen.

Continuing at the MFA this week is the Boston Jewish Film Festival's Encores series, which brings back popular films from last year's festival. Playing this week are LONELY MAN OF FAITH: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK, JELLYFISH and AT HOME IN UTOPIA. As I'm sure you all recall, JELLYFISH is one of my favorite films of the year, and this is definitely one of your last chances to see it on the big screen.

Another film that I first discovered in Toronto makes its way onto the big screen this week. BRICK LANE, adapted from an international best seller, is the feature film debut by Sarah Gavron, who brought us the outstanding made for British TV film THIS LITTLE LIFE in 2003.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, June 27 - July 3, 2008.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Exclusive Area Premiere!
The Tracey Fragments
The Harvard Bookstore Presents
Barbara Ehrenreich (Fri.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Brick Lane
Mongol
A Jihad for Love Filmmakers Present on Tues!
Bigger Stronger Faster*
Constantine's Sword
Radio Cape Cod (Mon.)
Coolidge Kino - Russian Film Series
White Sun of the Desert (Sun.)
Sydney Pollack Tribute
Out of Africa (Mon.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Young@Heart

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
Mongol

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Emile de Antonio’s America
In the Year of the Pig (Fri.)
Rush to Judgment (Fri.)
Point of Order (Sat.)
America is Hard to See (Sat.)
Painter's Painting w/ Writer Teri Tynes In Person (Sun.)
Underground w/ Scholar Dan Streible In Person (Sun.)
Millhouse: a White Comedy (Sun.)
In the King of Prussia (Mon.)
Mr. Hoover & I (Mon.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Mongol
War, Inc.

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
The Edge of Heaven
Brick Lane
Savage Grace
Reprise
War, Inc.
Finding Amanda
My Father My Lord
The Singing Revolution
Alexandra
The Visitor
The Fall

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Mongol
When Did You Last See Your Father
The Visitor

Lexington Flick, Lexington
The Visitor

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Mongol

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art of Film
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (Fri. - Sun., & Thu.)
New Cinema From Spain
In the City of Sylvia (Fri.)
Unas Fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (Sat.)
The Heart of the Earth (Sat.)
Thieves (Sat.)
Chaotic Ana (Sat.)
The Sky Turns (Sun.)
Pudor (Sun.)
Solitary Fragments (Sun.)
Cinema from Mexico
La Zona (Sat.)
Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
Lonely Man of Faith: The Life and Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B.Soloveitchik (Sun. & Thu.)
Jellyfish (Thu.)
At Home in Utopia (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
The Flight of the Red Balloon

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
Then She Found Me
The Counterfeiters
Young@Heart
Brick Lane
Up the Yangtze
Constantine's Sword
My Father, My Lord

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 26 June 2008

Chlotrudis Indie Film Round-Up, June 13 - 19

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

Sorry for missing the last couple of weeks' announcements. I was in L.A. for BookExpo America and things got a little hectic. While the summer blockbusters are starting to dominate the screens, there's still plenty of independent fodder out there to check out. Tom Kalin's SAVAGE GRACE opens this week, and if you're a fan of dark, twisted, family dysfunction, you won't want to miss it. Even better, it heralds a fine return to form for Julianne Moore. There is also a terrific series of New Chinese Cinema running this week at the Museum of Fine Arts. It features new films from talented directors like Zhang Yang (QUITTING; GETTING HOME) and Lou Ye (PURPLE BUTTERFLY; SUZHOU RIVER).

Also continuing at the MFA this week is the Boston Jewish Film Festival's Encores series, which brings back popular films from last year's festival. Playing this week are MAKING TROUBLE, WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE and AT HOME IN UTOPIA. Coming up in the next couple of weeks you can catch LONELY MAN OF FAITH: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK, THE POWDER AND THE GLORY, and for probably the last time on the big screen, the sublime Chlotrudis pick, JELLYFISH.

And don't forget -- just because we're taking a hiatus from the Chlotrudis Movie of the Week, you still get discounts at the Coolidge Corner and Brattle Theatres on Mondays and Tuesdays. So I will continue to post the indie film round-up online and via e-mail, and I hope to be joining you at the movies sometime without having to organize it myself!

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, June 13 - 19, 2008.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Tribute Week
Planet of the Apes (Fri. & Sat.)
Night and the City w/ Kiss of Death (Sun. & Mon.)
Pickup on South Street (Tue.)
Topkapi (Wed.)
CineMental Presents:
Inspired by Chantal Ackerman (Wed.)
Special Live Music Event Presented by End of an Empire!
Brothers Unconnected: A TRIBUTE TO CHARLES GOCHER AND SUN CITY GIRLS (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Bigger Stronger Faster*
The Fall
Sputnik Mania
Radio Cape Cod
Constantine's Sword
Midnite Madness
Beyond Boogie Nights (Fri.)
Monday Night Classics
Tootsie (Mon.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Son of Rambow
Young@Heart

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
No independent films playing this week.

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Leo McCarey, Screwball and Beyond
Love Affair (Fri.)
Indiscreet (Fri.)
An Affair to Remember (Sat.)
Make Way for Tomorrow (Sat.)
The Bells of St. Mary's (Sun.)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Sun.)
My Son John (Sun.)
Duck Soup (Mon.)
Once Upon a Honeymoon (Mon.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Son of Rambow
The Visitor
Young@Heart

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
The Animation Show 4
Savage Grace
Reprise
War, Inc.
When Did You Last See Your Father?
The Promotion
The Singing Revolution
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
The Visitor
The Fall
The Foot Fist Way

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Savage Grace
When Did You Last See Your Father
Refusenik
The Visitor

Lexington Flick, Lexington
The Visitor
Young@Heart

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Younga@Heart

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
New Chinese Cinema
Up the Yangtze (Fri. - Sun.)
Sunflower (Fri. & Sat.)
Summer Palace (Sat. & Thu.)
Lost in Beijing (Thu.)
The Art of Being
Valley of Flowers (Sat.)
Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
Making Trouble (Sun.)
What a Wonderful Place (Sun.)
At Home in Utopia (Sun. & Thu.)
New Cinema from Spain
Chaotic Ana (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Then She Found Me

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
Then She Found Me
The Children of Huang Shi
Flawless
The Band's Visit
The Counterfeiters
Shine a Light
Young@Heart
Surfwise
Praying with Lior

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 12 June 2008

Chlotrudis Indie Film Round-Up, May 23 - 29

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

The Chlotrudis Movie of the Week is taking the Summer Off!

Now, don't think this means there won't be opportunities for Chlotrudis members to get together and go to the movies. On the contrary, I'm hoping that there will be even more opportunities than ever, and this is how we would like it to work. Everyone has access to the chlotrudisboston@yahoogroups.com e-mail discussion group. Throughout the summer, if you're planning to see a movie, please post it to the chlotrudisboston list. Let everyone know that you'd like to see them there! Try to post this announcement a couple of days in advance so people can plan. It may not be on a Monday or a Tuesday, but I bet there will be a lot more opportunities to join your fellow Chlotrudis members at the movies if we open it up this way.

And don't forget -- just because we're taking a hiatus from the Chlotrudis Movie of the Week, you still get discounts at the Coolidge Corner and Brattle Theatres on Mondays and Tuesdays. So I will continue to post the indie film round-up online and via e-mail, and I hope to be joining you at the movies sometime without having to organize it myself!

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, May 23 - 29, 2008.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Une Liaison Française
The Lovers (Fri. & Sat.)
Jules & Jim (Fri. & Sat.)
Children of Paradise (Sun. & Mon.)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Tue. & Wed.)
Harvard Bookstore Presents
Ted Sorensen (Tue.)
Mike Gravel, Russell Banks, and Howard Zinn (Thu.)
Cambridge Community Television Presents
(IN)FAMOUS: 20 Years of CCTV’s Most Talked About Programming (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Roman De Gare
Son of Rambow
Radio Cape Cod
Dhamma Brothers
Midnite Madness
Animation Webjam Encore (Fri. & Sat.)
Sounds of Silents
Buster Keaton's The General with live accompaniment by pianist Martin Marks (Mon.)
Brookline Booksmith Presents
James Frey (Wed.)
Sneak Preview
Constantine's Sword with filmmakers James Carroll & Oren Jacoby and Co-Producer Betsy West in attendance! (Thu.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
The Counterfeiters
The Forbidden Kingdom
Under the Same Moon

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
In Bruges
Shine a Light
Then She Found Me

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Unseen Noir
He Ran All the Way & Try and Get Me (Fri.)
My Name is Julia Ross & Nightfall (Sat.)
Stranger on the Third Floor & Crack-Up (Sun.)
Pitfall & Tomorrow is Another Day (Sun.)
99 River Street & The Brother Rico (Mon.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Son of Rambow
The Visitor
Then She Found Me
Young@Heart
Under the Same Moon

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Surfwise
Reprise
Never Forever
OSS 117: Cairo: Nest of Spies
Before the Rains
Roman de Gare
Son of Rambow
The Visitor
Priceless

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Roman de Gare
Then She Found Me
Before the Rains
The Visitor
The Band's Visit

Lexington Flick, Lexington
Young@Heart

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Younga@Heart

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Argentinian Cinema
Love Songs (Fri. - Sun., & Thu.)
The Films of Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (Sat.)
Je tu il elle (Sat.)
Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce,1080 Bruxelles (Sun.)
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Wed.)
Memorial Day Open House
KIMUAK: Contemporary Short Films from the Spanish Basque Region (Mon.)
First Nations on Film
Our Nationhood (Wed.)
Incident at Restigouche and Spudwrench—Kahnawake Man (Thu.)
Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
A Hebrew Lesson (Thu.)
Beaufort (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Young@Heart

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
The Counterfeiters
The Dhamma Brothers
Flawless
The Flight of the Red Balloon
Son of Rambow
Shine a Light
Young@Heart
Under the Same Moon
Praying with Lior

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 23 May 2008

Chlotrudis Tuesday Night at the Movies + Indie Film Round-Up, May 16 - 22

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

I know some of you may have seen this film at the Sunday Eye Opener, but for this week's Tuesday Night at the Movies, join us at the Coolidge Corner Theatre for the 7:15 p.m. screening of SON OF RAMBOW. In what some critics have called the best family film of the year... a film that can be enjoyed by eveyrone in the entire family, this British film is filled with laughs. Director Garth Jennings comes way down in budget after his last film, 2005's THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.

SON OF RAMBOW is a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age. The story takes place in 1980s Britain, where young Will Proudfoot is raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden. When Will encounters his first movie, a pirated copy of RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD his imagination is blown wide open. Now, Will sets out to join forces with the seemingly diabolical school bully, Lee Carter, to make their own action epic, devising wildly creative, on-the-fly stunts, not to mention equally elaborate schemes for creating a movie of total commitment and non-stop thrills while hiding out from The Brethren. When school popularity finally descends on Will and Lee in the form of, oui, the super-cool French exchange student, their remarkable new friendship and precious film are pushed, quite literally, to the breaking point.

dir. Garth Jennings, w/ Will Poulter, Bill Milner, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Stevenson, Neil Dudgeon, Anna Wing, Ed Westwick, Eric Sykes, 1h36m

If you're free on Saturday night, you will definitely want to hit the Museum of Fine Arts for the Boston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. At 8:45 p.m., Chlotrudis will co-present LOVE SONGS, the latest film by Christophe Honoré, which critics and Chlotrudis members alike are just loving. Christophe Honoré furthers his case as one of the most exciting filmmakers of our generation with the exuberant and tender LOVE SONGS. A modern-day musical told through unforgettable songs performed entirely by the cast and scored by Alex Beaupain, the film has overjoyed audiences at the Cannes and Toronto Film festivals while earning recognition in its native country with four French Cesar nominations. In the hope of sparking their stalled relationship, Ismael (Louis Garrel of DANS PARIS, THE DREAMERS) and Julie (Ludivine Sagnier of SWIMMING POOL) enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice (Clotilde Hesme of REGULAR LOVERS). When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love. For Ismael, this means negotiating through the advances of Julie's sister (Chara Mastroianni of PERSEPOLIS). Erwann, a young college student (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet of STRAYED), may offer him redemption. In French with English subtitles.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, May 16 - 22, 2008.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
A Gathering of Coens!
No Country for Old Men (Fri. - Sun.)
Raising Arizona (Mon. & Tue.)
The Big Lebowski (Mon. & Tue.)
Miller's Crossing (Wed. & Thu.)
Barton Fink (Wed. & Thu.)
Harvard Bookstore Presents!
Alexandra Fuller (Mon.)
CineMental Presents
Caravaggio (Wed.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Roman De Gare
Son of Rambow
Dhamma Brothers
Persepolis
Croation Film Series
How the War Started on My Island (Sun.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
The Counterfeiters
The Forbidden Kingdom
Under the Same Moon

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
In Bruges
Persepolis

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Godard, Gorin, Garrel and the Grin Without a Cat
Sympathy for the Devil (Fri.)
Ici et ailleurs & Two American Audiences (Fri.)
Regular Lovers (Sat.)
See You at Mao (aka British Sounds) (Sun.)
Godard in America Director Ralph Thanhauser Appearing in Person (Sun.)
A Grin Without a Cat
J’entends plus la guitare (Mon.)
Le Gai savoir

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Visitor
Then She Found Me
Young@Heart
Under the Same Moon

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
OSS 117: Cairo: Nest of Spies
Before the Rains
A Four Letter Word
Roman de Gare
Then She Found Me
Son of Rambow
Redbelt
The Visitor
Priceless

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Then She Found Me
Before the Rains
Redbelt
The Visitor
The Band's Visit

Lexington Flick, Lexington
The Counterfeiters
Young@Heart

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Fugitive Pieces
Younga@Heart

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Women's Short Films (Fri.)
Finn's Girl (Fri.)
Black,White + Grey: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (Sat., Sun. & Thu.)
black./womyn.:conversations with lesbians of African descent (Sat.)
Blueprint (Sat.)
Love Songs Co-presented by Chlotrudis! (Sat. & Thu.)
She's a Boy I Knew (Sun.)
Derek (Sun.)
A Jihad for Love (Sun.)
Spinnin' (Sun.)
The Curiosity of Chance (Sun.)
The Films of Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (Wed.)
Je tu il elle (Wed.)
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Thu.)
Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce,1080 Bruxelles (Thu.)
Argentinian Cinema
XXY (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Shine a Light

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
The Counterfeiters
Flawless
The Flight of the Red Balloon
Fugitive Pieces
Son of Rambow
Shine a Light
Young@Heart
Under the Same Moon
Praying with Lior

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 15 May 2008

Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies + Indie Film Round-Up, May 2 - 8, 2008

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

I'm going to be away all next week at a work conference, but Isabel is going to take over the organizing duties for the Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies, so hopefully you'll consider joining her! The film is called ELITE SQUAD, directed by José Padilha, whose last film was the intirguing and well-received BUS 174. ELITE SQUAD is a Brazillian narrative that explores police corruption on the Rio de Janeiro police force. It's a hard-hitting, controversial film, and the Padilha will be present to introduce the film and answer questions. Join Isabel at the Harvard Film Archive for the 7 p.m. screening. If you are planning to attend, please let Isabel know by e-mailing her at Isabel.Quadros@tufts.edu, or calling her at 781-866-6802.

ELITE SQUAD has been a media event in Brazil since the first pirated copies of the workprint started circulating. It was an instant success upon its Brazilian release last fall and burst onto the international scene by winning top prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of a book by the same name written by anthropologist Luiz Eduardo Soares (the former national secretary of public security in Brazil) and two police officers, André Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel. The book recounts the experiences of Batista and Pimentel as officers in the Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais, the Special Police Operations Battalion of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police. Soares is the former national secretary of public security in Brazil. Both the film and the book show police brutality and corruption, as well as the violence of drug traffickers, through the eyes and the voice of a policeman involved in a world where the war on crime itself becomes criminal. From the experiences of the Rio police officers, ELITE SQUAD seeks to explain how the violence of fighting drug traffickers spawns police corruption and summary justice. Narrated by Nascimento, an embittered, bullish officer in Rio de Janeiro’s black-bereted special police squadron, the film builds a complex narrative around two new recruits learning the hard way that the police force mirrors the city’s underworld. Alongside its commercial success, ELITE SQUAD has excited great controversy as an apology for police brutality. However director Padilha’s previous film, the hostage-crisis documentary BUS 174, which was a sensitive depiction of the spiral of poverty and inadequate criminal justice that both creates and feeds off urban violence in Brazil, suggests that ELITE SQUAD may be more critique than celebration. Director José Padilha will be present for this special screening.

In the meantime, I want to thank everyone who attended the Chlotrudis co-presentation of Guy Maddin's MY WINNIPEG at the IFFB. Maddin's docu-fantasia has won the audience award for Best Narrative for the festival with only a single screening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre! There was a nice Chlotrudis crowd at the screening and we all enjoyed it, and it was made all the more wonderful by Maddin's wacky and personal post-film QUA. Those of you who missed the film during it's IFFB screening should definitely keep an eye out for its domestic release this summer.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, May 2 - 8, 2008.

Belmont Studio Cinema
Flawless

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
United Artists 90th Anniversary!
Dr. No (Fri. & Sat.)
Pink Panter (Fri. & Sat.)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sun.)
The Magnificent Seven (Sun.)
Raging Bull (Mon. & Tue.)
Rocky (Mon. & Tue.)
Judgment at Nuremberg (Wed.)
In the Heat of the Night (Thu.)
Twelve Angry Men (Thu.)
MayFair Film Program - Free Program!
A Selection of Shorts from Lumen Eclipse, Central Productions, Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, and Women in Film/Video New England (Sun.)
Harvard Bookstore Presents!
Howard Fineman (Wed.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Young@Heart
Persepolis
Blindsight
Thrilling 3-D Film Festival!
House of Wax (Fri. & Tue.)
Dial M for Murder (Sat. & Wed.)
Kiss Me Kate (Sun.)
It Came from Outer Space (Mon. & Thu.)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Mon. & Thu.)
Charlton Heston Tribute
Earthquake (Fri. & Sat.)
Ten Commandments (Sun.)
Divas in the Dark
Cosi (Sun.)
Global Lens Series
The Bet Collector (Sun.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Juno
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
In Bruges
Juno
Persepolis

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
A Rough Transcendence: The Films of Lee Chang-dong
Secret Sunshine Director Present! (Fri.)
Peppermint Candy Director Present! (Sat.)
Green Fish (Sun.)
Oasis (Sun.)
An Evening With José Padilha
Elite Squad Director Present! (Mon.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Visitor
The Band's Visit
The Counterfeiters
Flawless
Juno
The Life Before Her Eyes

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Irina Palm
Then She Found Me
Standard Operating Procedure
Flight of the Red Balloon
The Visitor
Priceless
Under the Same Moon
My Brother is an Only Child
The Conterfeiters
The First Saturday in May

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Then She Found Me
Standard Operating Procedure
The Visitor
The Band's Visit

Lexington Flick, Lexington
The Counterfeiters

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Younga@Heart

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Films of Julian Schnabel
Basquiat (Fri., Sun., Wed. & Thu.)
Before Night Falls (Fri., Sun. & Thu.)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Sat., Sun. & Thu.)
Music on Film
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (Sat.)
New England Film Artists Present
Titicut Follies (Sat.)
3 Américas (Sat.)
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Men's Opening Night: A Four Letter Word (Wed.)
Women's Opening Night: The World Unseen (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
The Savages

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
The Counterfeiters
Flawless
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Young@Heart
Shine a Light
My Brother is an Only Child
Under the Same Moon
Praying with Lior

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 1 May 2008

Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies + Indie Film Round-Up, April 25 - May 1, 2008

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

This week is all about the Independent Film Festival of Boston! Festivities kicked off last night where an appearance by Ben Kingsley at Brad Anderson's latest film, TRANSSIBERIAN got the crowd going. This weekend the festival takes over the Somerville, Brattle and Coolidge Corner Theatres, and Chlotrudis is co-presenting not one, but two terrific films that you should take the time to see. Many of you are volunteering at the festival and the rest of you need to check out the excellent schedule of films, panels, and parties that take over indie Boston this weekend. The Festival runs nearly a week this year, wrapping up on Tuesday night at the Coolidge with a screening of Werner Herzog's latest documentary, ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD.

Brace yourself. If your idea of Ellen Page comes from JUNO, or even MARION BRIDGE, you'd better hold on when you see THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS. We're not even talking about the visceral discomfort of HARD CANDY here, but rather a wrenching, emotional rollercoaster ride depicting a young teenager's spiralling decent into loss and madness. My favorite film at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, I call THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS, LILYA 4-EVER meets PI. A visual and aural assault that utilizes a collage-like editing technique that is still anchored securely by Page's phenomenal performance. You can't miss this film, and here's your chance to see it before everyone else. it plays twice during the IFFB, Friday, April 25, 9:45 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and Sunday, April 27, 10:00 p.m. at the Somerville Theatre. Both shows co-presented by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film.

The Chlotrudis Society has long been a supporter of Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin, giving nominations to his last four feature films, BRAND UPON THE BRAIN, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE, THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, and DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY. Now he's back in his own inimitable style, with a film that's part narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, an homage to the city of his birth and upbringing, MY WINNIPEG. I first caught this film at Toronto last year as well, with Guy himself performing the narration live. He said that he wouldn't be doing that again, but Guy is in fact, planning to be in attendance at this year's IFFB screening, which takes place Monday, April 28, 8:00 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. And since, Chlotrudis is co-presenting MY WINNIPEG at the IFFB, we're making it this week's Chlotrudis Monday Movie of the Week! You really want to try to catch this one.

The films being co-presented by Chlotrudis are just scratching the surface of the terrific array of films coming to town this week. Documentaries, narratives, shorts, the IFFB has got them all. Here's a sampling of some of the films that I am excited about. SAVAGE GRACE is the very long awaited follow-up to SWOON by Tom Kalin. It's his first feature film is 16 years! SAVAGE GRACE tells the real-life tale of Barbara and Tony Baekeland, a peculiarly close mother and son whose story takes on the themes and proportions of Greek tragedy. Julianne Moore stars as Barbara Baekeland in a chilling role that go a long way to putting her back on the top of must-see actress list. Because of her stellar documentary work on such films as IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL and this year's Chlotrudis winner for Best Doc, PROTAGONIST, Jessica Yu is one of those diretors whose work I will always check out. I did just that last year in Toronto with her wacky family comedy, PING PONG PLAYA! Christopher "C-dub" Wang is an irresponsible, swaggering wannabe basketball player that is forced to pick up a paddle when his ping pong champion brother is injured. Jimmy Tsai, who co-wrote the screenplay with Yu, plays C-dub, and while the comedy is broad and a bit juvenile, the familiar story is a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to GOLIATH, David and Nathan Zellner's SXSW hit that explores the bond between a lonely man and his pet cat. Another film that has been making waves on the documentary festival circuit is AMERICAN TEEN which takes a look at the lives of four Midwestern teens. This film was shot over a 10-month period by Nanette Burnstein who brought us THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE.

All these films and more are part of Boston's premiere festival, the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Do check out their website for information on how to get tickets, where the parties are, and the panels that are going on around town. And say hello to your fellow Chlotrudis members who will be hard at work volunteering!

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, April 25 - May 1, 2008.

Belmont Studio Cinema
Flawless

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Independent Film Festival of Boston
Sex Positive (Fri.)
Dreams with Sharp Teeth (Fri.)
Flash Point (Fri.)
Linguists (Sat.)
Secrecy (Sat.)
Wild Blue Yonder (Sat.)
Saviours (Sat.)
Goliath (Sat.)
Blood Car (Sat.)
Crawford (Sun.)
Ping Pong Playa (Sun.)
Nerdcore Rising (Sun.)
Momma's Man (Sun.)
Frownland (Sun.)
A Tribute to Charlton Heston
Ben Hur (Mon. & Tue.)
Big Screen Boston!
Girl Talk Author Paul Sherman & Subject "Martha" Will Discuss (Wed.)
Billy in the Lowlands Director Jan Egleson & Paul Sherman Will Discuss (Thu.)
Harvard Coop Presents
Auguesten Burroughs (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Young@Heart
Persepolis
Blindsight
Independent Film Festival of Boston
Savage Grace (Fri.)
The Tracey Fragments Co-presented by Chlotrudis! (Fri.)
Joy Division (Fri.)
Ping Pong Playa (Sat.)
Dreams with Sharp Teeth (Sat.)
Woodpecker (Sat.)
Cake Eaters (Sat.)
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie (Sat.)
Triangle (Sat.)
The Greening of Southie (Sun.)
Turn of the River (Sun.)
Life Support Music (Sun.)
Mongol (Sun.)
Time Crimes (Sun.)
At the Death House Door (Mon.)
My Winnipeg w/ Guy Maddin present! Co-presented by Chlotrudis (Mon.)
Encounters at the End of the World (Tue.)
Charlton Heston Tribute
Ten Commandments (Wed.)
Touch of Evil (Thu.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Juno
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
In Bruges
Juno
Persepolis
Independent Film Festival of Boston
Shorts 2 (Fri.)
Shorts 1 (Fri.)
Second Skin (Fri.)
Phoebe Wonderland (Fri.)
Intimidad (Fri.)
Jetsam (Fri.)
Natural Causes (Fri.)
Very Young Girls (Fri.)
Big Man Japan (Fri.)
Vexille (Fri.)
Time Crimes (Fri.)
Nerdcore Rising (Fri.)
Pink (Sat.)
The Greening of Southie (Sat.)
August Evening (Sat.)
New Year Parade (Sat.)
Frontrunner (Sat.)
My Effortless Brilliance (Sat.)
We Are Wizards (Sat.)
Ballast (Sat.)
Shorts 1 (Sat.)
Medicine Melancholy (Sat.)
Crawford (Sat.)
Sex Positive (Sat.)
American Teen (Sat.)
Turn the River (Sat.)
Meadowlark (Sat.)
Frownland (Sat.)
Song Sung Blue (Sat.)
Momma's Man (Sat.)
Stuck (Sat.)
Public Enemy (Sat.)
Beaver Trilogy (Sat.)
Flashpoint (Sat.)
Shorts 5 (Sun.)
Shorts 4 (Sun.)
Intimidad (Sun.)
The Cake Eaters (Sun.)
Severed Ways (Sun.)
Wild Blue Younder (Sun.)
Jump! (Sun.)
At Death House Door (Sun.)
Frontrunner (Sun.)
Shorts 3 (Sun.)
Lioness (Sun.)
Secrecy (Sun.)
Twelve (Sun.)
Song Sung Blue (Sun.)
Phoebe Wonderland (Sun.)
Goliath (Sun.)
New Year Parade (Sun.)
The Tracey Fragments Co-presented by Chlotrudis! (Sun.)
Very Young Girls (Sun.)
Pink (Sun.)
Jetsam (Sun.)
Life Support Music (Mon.)
Linguists (Mon.)
Saviours (Mon.)
Woodpecker (Mon.)
Shorts 3 (Mon.)
Jump! (Mon.)
Eleven Minutes (Mon.)
Vexille (Mon.)
Shorts 4 (Mon.)
Shorts 5 (Mon.)
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie (Mon.)
Encounters at the End of the World (Tue.)

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Robert Breer, Kinetic Poet of the Avant-Garde
Short Films Director Present! (Fri.)
Sun & Moon in Indonesia: The Single-Shot Cinema of Leonard Retel Helmrich
The Eye of the Day Director Present! (Sat.)
Shape of the Moon Director Present! (Sun.)
An Evening with Heinz Emigholz
Schindler's Houses & Goff in the Desert Director present! (Sun.)
Dziga Vertov and the Soviet Avant-Garde
Enthusiasm & Outskirts (Mon.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Counterfeiters
Flawless
Juno
The Life Before Her Eyes

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Bab'Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul
Flight of the Red Balloon
The Visitor
The Life Before Her Eyes
Zombie Strippers
Priceless
Under the Same Moon
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
My Brother is an Only Child
The Conterfeiters
The First Saturday in May

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
The Visitor
My Blueberry Nights
Smart People
Deception
The Band's Visit

Lexington Flick, Lexington
The Counterfeiters
Flawless

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Younga@Heart
Smart People

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Best of Youth
Maximum Velocity (Fri.)
Sailing Home (Fri.)
Three Step Dancing (Fri.)
La CapaGira (Fri.)
Annual SMFA Film Program: Undergraduate
SMFA Graduate Student Films: Five Places Imagined and Real (Wed.)
Music on Film
Jethro Tull Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (Wed.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
The Savages

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
The Counterfeiters
Flawless
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Priceless
My Brother is an Only Child
Under the Same Moon
Praying with Lior

Coming Soon!

The The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents

Directed by Chlotrudis nominee Jeremy Podeswa (THE FIVE SENSES), FUGITIVE PIECES is a powerful and unforgettably lyrical film about love, loss and redemption. Jakob Beer (Robbie Kay) is just a young boy when the Nazis invade Poland in 1942, killing his parents and abducting his older sister. After finally coming out of his hiding space when he feels safe, he's rescued by Athos Roussos (Rade Serbedgia), an archaeologist who smuggles Jakob to safety in Greece. Years later, an older Jakob (Stephen Dillane, John Adams) becomes a university professor in Canada where he must come to terms with his past before feeling safe in the present with his new girlfriend, Alex (Rosamund Pike). The film is based on the best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels. (2007, English, 105 minutes). FUGITIVE PIECES will be released theatrically at the West Newton Cinema and Harvard

Square Theatre on Friday, May 9.

Tickets are on sale now. $12 general admission; $10 Festival/WGBH members, seniors, students. To purchase tickets online, go to TicketWeb.com. To purchase by phone call TicketWeb toll-free at 1-866-468-7619. Service charges apply.

Remaining tickets will be available for purchase at West Newton Cinema one hour before screening time.

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 24 April 2008

Chlotrudis Tuesday Night at the Movies + Indie Film Round-Up, April 18 - 24

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

Sorry for the lack of announcement last week! I was preparing for a business trip to San Francisco and there was nothing if real interest opening so it just slipped my mind! This week, however, due to the vagaries of film release dates, there is a veritable cornucopia of new indie films opening in the Boston area. It never rains, it pours... except when we're suffering from a drought. Anyway, this week, please join us on Tuesday for Tom McCarthy's THE VISITOR, 7:10 p.m. screening at the Kendall Square Cinema. Fans of THE STATION AGENT will want to catch McCarthy's delightful follow-up starring "Six Feet Under's" Richard Jenkins as an uptight academic who befriends a couple in New York City only to face the complicated trials of citizenship and deportation.

Opening this week at the Coolidge Corner Theatre is Stephen walker's documentary YOUNG@HEART, a delightful look at a New England senior citizens chorus that has delighted audiences worldwide with their covers of songs by everyone from The Clash to Coldplay. As this inspiring documentary begins, the retirees, led by their strict musical director, are rehearsing their new show, struggling with a discordant Sonic Youth number and giving new meaning to James Brown's "I Feel Good." What ultimately emerges is a funny and unexpectedly moving testament to friendship, creative inspiration, and reaching beyond expectations. Playing all week.

Several other films of note are opening this week at the Kendall Square Cinema. Hou Hsiao Hsien (MILLENNIUM MAMBO) returns with his first European-made film, FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON. Starring Juliette Binoche, this enchanting, almost improvisatory film was inspired by the 1956 classic, THE RED BALLOON. Worldwide media sensation Jenna Jameson and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET's Robert Englund star in writer/director Jay Lee's sexy, bloody and hilarious new take on the zombie film, ZOMBIE STRIPPERS. When a secret government agency lets out a deadly chemo virus causing the reanimation of the dead, the first place to get hit is Rhino's, a hot underground strip club. As one of the strippers gets the virus, she turns into a supernatural, flesh-eating zombie, making her the hit of the club. Do the rest of the girls fight the temptation to be like the star stripper, even if there is no turning back? In his entertaining new documentary, WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN, Morgan Spurlock (SUPER SIZE ME) takes on a franchise even more lethal than McDonald's—Al Qaeda. With no military experience, knowledge or expertise, he sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and U.S. military have all failed to do: find the world's most wanted man. But before he finds bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from and the environment and influences that shaped him.

On Sunday, please join us for the final week of this spring's Sunday Eye-Opener series, and it's a very special screening too. This weekend features a FREE screening open to the public, not just to Eye Opener subscribers. Thank you to Allied Advertising and Paramount Vantage for providing us a sneak preview of SON OF RAMBOW. A runaway audience smash at the Sundance Film Festival, SON OF RAMBOW is a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age. There's a really cool promotion related to this film as well. Paramount Vantage and Hammer & Tongs are teaming up for a short film contest. To enter, you will need to submit an original short film about anything, literally anything! Submissions can be up to 5 minutes max. The Grand Prize winner will have their short film placed in the Special Features section of the SON OF RAMBOW DVD. Three runner-ups will receive framed movie posters signed by the director and producer. The deadline for submissions is May 12, 2008. Filmmakers must be 13 years of age or older to enter. Visit http://sonoframbow.filmmakingfrenzy.com for more information.

Of course next week will be a busy week for fans of Independent Film. Wednesday night at the Somerville Theatre marks the opening night of the Independent Film Festival of Boston. The opening night film is Brad Anderson's TRANSSIBERIAN, starring Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer and Woody Harrelson. You can also see Chlotrudis 4th Annual Short Film Audience Award winner Jesse Epstein present her new film 34X25X35 as part of the Shorts 2: Docs program at the Somerville Theatre on Thursday, when the festival also branches out to the Coolidge Corner and Brattle Theatres. Most important, get your tickets to see the Chlotrudis-supported screenings of THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS, playing Friday night at the Coolidge, and Sunday night at the Somerville; and MY WINNIPEG, playing Monday night at the Coolidge with director Guy Maddin in attendance! Get your tickets now at the IFFB's website.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, April 18 - April 24, 2008.

Belmont Studio Cinema
Juno

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action & 60s Japan!
A Colt is My Passport (Fri.)
Black Rose Mansion (Fri. & Sun.)
Mothra (Sat.)
Plains Wanderer (Sat.)
The Warped Ones (Sat.)
Red Handkerchief (Sun.)
Velvet Hustler (aka Like a Shooting Star) (Sun.)
Three Outlaw Samurai (Mon.)
Death by Hanging (Tue.)
High and Low (Wed.)
Woman in the Dunes (Thu.)
Special Event - The 1st Annual Coldwell Banker Spring Cleaning Screening!
Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dream House (Sat.)
Sunday Eye Opener
Son of Rambow (Sun.)th
Harvard Bookstore Presents
Howard Zinn and Mike Konopacki (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Young@Heart
Under the Same Moon
The Counterfeiters
Persepolis
Chicago 10
Midnite Madness
J. Cannibal's Fest of Flesh presents Dawn of the Dead (Sat.)
Croation Film Series
Alone (Sun.)
Science on Screen
Vertigo with guest speaker Catherine Kimble, MD (Mon.)
Independent Film Festival of Boston
We Are Wizards (Thu.)
Blood Car w/ The Rambler (Thu.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Juno
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
There Will Be Blood

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
In Bruges
Juno
Persepolis
Independent Film Festival of Boston Opening Night!
Transsiberian (Wed.)
Shorts 2: Docs including 34x25x36; If a Body Meet a Body; KIds + Money; La Corona (Thu.)
Medicine for Melancholy w/ Maybe in the Springtime (Thu.)
Mister Lonely (Thu.)
My Effortless Brilliance w/ Woman in Burka (Thu.)
Joy Division (Thu.)
Second Skin (Thu.)
Eleven Minutes (Thu.)
Natural Causes (Thu.)
Meadowlark (Thu.)

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Canyon Cinema: The Life & Times of an Independent Film Distributor
Short Films (Fri.)
Letters from Chad: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Dry Season (Sat.)
Bye Bye Africa (Sun.)
Our Father (Sun.)
Dziga Vertov and the Soviet Avant-Garde
The House on Trubnaya Square & Man with a Movie Camera, and In Spring Live Piano Accompaniment by Dan Gross (Mon.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Counterfeiters
Flawless
Juno
Run Fat Boy Run

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Flight of the Red Balloon
The Visitor
Zombie Strippers
Body of War
Priceless
Under the Same Moon
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
Flawless
The Conterfeiters
The Band's Visit
The First Saturday in May

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
The Visitor
My Blueberry Nights
Smart People
Married Life
In Bruges
The Band's Visit

Lexington Flick, Lexington
The Counterfeiters
Flawless

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
My Blueberry Nights
Younga@Heart
Smart People

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Music on Film
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival (Fri. - Sun.)
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight (Sun.)
First Person Filmmaking
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman-Chapters 4, 5, 6 (Fri. & Sat.)
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman-Chapters 1, 2, 3 (Sat.)
Art on Film
Dream of Light (Sat.)
Inspirational Cinema
Beyond Belief (Sun.)
Environmental Activism
Renewal (Sun.)
Best of Youth
Salty Air (Wed.)
Private (Thu.)
One Man Up (Thu.)
Spectator (Thu.)
Annual SMFA Film Program: Undergraduate
Short Films (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
There Will Be Blood

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
The Counterfeiters
Flawless
Priceless
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden
Under the Same Moon

Coming Soon!

The The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents

Directed by Chlotrudis nominee Jeremy Podeswa (THE FIVE SENSES), FUGITIVE PIECES is a powerful and unforgettably lyrical film about love, loss and redemption. Jakob Beer (Robbie Kay) is just a young boy when the Nazis invade Poland in 1942, killing his parents and abducting his older sister. After finally coming out of his hiding space when he feels safe, he's rescued by Athos Roussos (Rade Serbedgia), an archaeologist who smuggles Jakob to safety in Greece. Years later, an older Jakob (Stephen Dillane, John Adams) becomes a university professor in Canada where he must come to terms with his past before feeling safe in the present with his new girlfriend, Alex (Rosamund Pike). The film is based on the best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels. (2007, English, 105 minutes). FUGITIVE PIECES will be released theatrically at the West Newton Cinema and Harvard Square Theatre on Friday, May 9.

Tickets are on sale now. $12 general admission; $10 Festival/WGBH members, seniors, students. To purchase tickets online, go to TicketWeb.com. To purchase by phone call TicketWeb toll-free at 1-866-468-7619. Service charges apply.

Remaining tickets will be available for purchase at West Newton Cinema one hour before screening time.

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 17 April 2008

Chlotrudis Monday Night at the Movies + Indie Film Round-Up, April 4 - 10

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

This week's Chlotrudis Monday Night Movie of the Week, is an intriguing narrative from director Zak Penn who last brought us the mock documentary INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS. THE GRAND is his latest effort, focusing on the world of professional poker. Join us for the 6:45 p.m. screening at the Kendall Square Theatre on Monday night.

For those of you who haven't seen it, I highly recommend you get yourself to the Brattle Theatre this weekend when they present the area premiere of Reg Harkema's MONKEY WARFARE starring Chlotrudis pals Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, and Nadia Litz. This sublime comedy about aging revolutionaries and the hip young woman who tries to follow in their footsteps, is a very special feature that Chlotrudis co-presented at last year's Independent Film Festival of Boston. If you haven't seen it, catch it Friday - Monday at the Brattle.

This week's Sunday Eye Opener, is the directorial debut of talk show host Phil Donahue that was the runner- up for the Toronto International Film Festival Audience Award. “Support our troops” has long been a rallying cry for war proponents. But that glib phrase will never sound the same after you meet Tomas Young, the eloquent former soldier whose story is told in BODY OF WAR. Raised in Kansas City, Young enlisted in the Army full of patriotism two days after September 11, 2001. He hoped for a deployment to Afghanistan to fight those who attacked his country. Instead, he was sent to Iraq where he was shot and paralyzed. In BODY OF WAR, we follow twenty-six-year-old Young for a year as he undergoes an activist’s education. He speaks with candor, humor and raw emotion, meeting war protester Cindy Sheehan near George W. Bush’s Texas ranch, lobbying politicians in Washington and being interviewed by Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes. Venerable talk-show host Phil Donahue met Young and felt compelled to tell his story. He joined forces with director and cinematographer Ellen Spiro, whose camera work delivers an incredible intimacy. Join us on Sunday, at 11 a.m. for coffee, a film, and good discussion!

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, April 4 - April 10, 2008.

Belmont Studio Cinema
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Belmont World Film Festival
Lili and the Baobab (Sun.)

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Harvard Bookstore Presents
Mark Vonnegut (Fri.)
Germaine Greer (Thu.)
Area Theatrical Premiere
Monkey Warfare (Fri. - Mon.)
Schlock Around the Clock!
Poor White Trash, Spice World, The Big Bird Cage, Galaxina, The Manitou, The Blood of Dracula's Castle, and Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters (Sat. - Sun.)
New Print!
The Wizard of Oz (Sat. - Mon.)
Brattle Benefit Event! Special Screening & Poetry Reading
Polis Is This Director Present for Q&A (Thu.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Under the Same Moon
Paranoid Park
The Counterfeiters
Persepolis
Chicago 10
Midnite Madness
R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet Sing-Along (Fri.)
The Michael Jackson Sing-Along (Sat.)
Goethe Institut German Film Series
Netto (Sun.)
Brookline Booksmith Presents
Tobias Woolf (Mon.)
Coolidge Award Retrospective Series
Sexy Beast (Mon.)
Bad Timing (Wed.)
The Great Rock 'N Roll Swindle (Wed.)
Off the Couch
Snow Angels w/ Dr. Jonathan Kolb (Tue.)
Free Sneak Preview
The Visitor (Wed.)
Area Premiere
The Truth About Cancer (Thu.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Atonement
Be Kind, Rewind
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
On Broadway
There Will Be Blood
The Savages

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
In Bruges
Juno
Persepolis

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Two by Robert Thalheim
And Along Came Tourists & Netto Director Robert Thalheim in Attendance! (Fri.)
Tony Conrad – Film/Performance
Straight and Narrow & The Flicker Director Tony Conrad in Attendance including Performance! (Sat.)
Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist and Snowbeard director Marie Losier in attendance (Sun.)
Recent Video Work by Tony Conrad Director in person! (Sun.)
Short Films by Tony Conrad Director in person! (Sun.)
Dziga Vertov and the Soviet Avant-Garde
Miss Mend Live Piano Accompaniment by Rob Humphreville (Mon.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Counterfeiters
Flawless

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Under the Same Moone
Planet B-Boy
The Grand
Flawless
Stop-Loss
Run, Fat Boy, Run
Shelter
The Conterfeiters
The Band's Visit
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Snow Angels
Run, Fat Boy, Run
Married Life
In Bruges
The Band's Visit
Juno

Lexington Flick, Lexington
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Shine a Light
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
There Will Be Blood

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston Turkish Film Festival
International (Fri.)
Waiting for Heaven (Fri.)
Adam and the Devil (Sat.)
Times and Winds (Sun.)
Art on Film
Dream of Light (Sat.)
Film with Live Music
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Sat.)
Inspirational Cinema
Beyond Belief (Sun.)
Director Presents
Today the Hawk Takes One Chick (Sun.)
Music on Film
Festival! (Thu.)
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
The Counterfeiters
Flawless
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Under the Same Moon
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Coming Soon!

The The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents
Two special pre-release screenings at the West Newton Cinema in April!

Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with THEN SHE FOUND ME. April Epner (Helen Hunt) is a schoolteacher whose life falls apart after she separates from her husband (Matthew Broderick) and her adopted mother dies. Things pick up, though, when April's birth mother (Bette Midler), a talk show host, finally gets in touch with her and she starts dating the nice, handsome parent (Colin Firth) of one of her students. (2008, English, Hebrew, 100 minutes).

THEN SHE FOUND ME will be released theatrically on Friday, May 2 at Kendall Square Cinema.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 4 at 2pm. $15 general admission; $12 Festival/WGBH members, seniors, students. To purchase tickets online, go to TicketWeb.com. To purchase by phone call TicketWeb toll-free at 1-866-468-7619. Service charges apply.

Remaining tickets will be available for purchase at West Newton Cinema one hour before screening time.

Fugitive Pieces is a powerful and unforgettably lyrical film about love, loss and redemption. Jakob Beer (Robbie Kay) is just a young boy when the Nazis invade Poland in 1942, killing his parents and abducting his older sister. After finally coming out of his hiding space when he feels safe, he's rescued by Athos Roussos (Rade Sherbedgia), an archaeologist who smuggles Jakob to safety in Greece. Years later, an older Jakob (Stephen Dillane) becomes a university professor in Canada where he must come to terms with his past before feeling safe in the present with his new girlfriend, Alex (Rosamund Pike). The film is based on the best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels. (2007, English, 105 minutes). Fugitive Pieces will be released theatrically at the West Newton Cinema on Friday, May 9.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 4 at 2pm. $12 general admission; $10 Festival/WGBH members, seniors, students. To purchase tickets online, go to TicketWeb.com. To purchase by phone call TicketWeb toll-free at 1-866-468-7619. Service charges apply.

Remaining tickets will be available for purchase at West Newton Cinema one hour before screening time.

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 3 April 2008

Chlotrudis Tuesday Night at the Movies + Indie Film Round-Up, March 28 - April 3

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

It's a very big weekend for Chlotrudis, but we'll still be heading out to the movies next week! Join us on Tuesday, April 1 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre for the 7:20 p.m. screening of David Gordon Green's latest work, SNOW ANGELS. Chlotrudis has been a longtime supporter of Green, nominating all three of his previous films (GEORGE WASHINGTON, ALL THE REAL GIRLS, UNDERTOW) for awards. His latest work is an adaptation of a novel by Stewart O'Nan. Hope to see you at the Coolidge!

Snow Angels
Written for the screen and directed by David Gordon Green, SNOW ANGELS is a story of love lost and found in a small town, a heartrending portrayal of three couples in various stages of life orbiting around each other in search of connection and meaning. High school student Arthur plays trombone in the marching band, busses tables at the local Chinese restaurant and avoids his squabbling parents. At work, he flirts with Annie, who used to be his baby-sitter. Annie is trying to build a new life for herself and her daughter after splitting with high school sweetheart Glenn. A man with a troubled past, Glenn hopes to make a new start by getting a job and reconnecting with his family. At school, Arthur meets a pretty girl, Lila, who is just as nerdy as he is, and they quickly develop a crush on each other. An unexpected act of violence disrupts the lives of these intertwined couples revealing the profound moments in which they each realize how precarious and remarkable life can be.

Director: David Gordon Green

Cast:Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Angarano, Amy Sedaris and Olivia Thirlby

Of course the big news for Chlotrudis is the 14th Annual Chlotrudis Awards, taking place Sunday, March 30, 5 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre. This year's celebration of independent film will feature musical numbers, film clips, the announcement of the Society's picks for the best in independent film in 2007 and special guests! We're thrilled to announce our attending honoree, Canadian actress Alberta Watson. Ms. Watson first caught indie-America's attention as the object of her son's interest in the feature SPANKING THE MONKEY (although real movie buffs might remember her from the horror film, THE KEEP). Since then she has made strong showings in supporting roles in a variety of films including THE SWEET HEREAFTER, HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH, THE WILD DOGS, and AWAY FROM HER. Tickets for the 14th Annual Chlotrudis Awards are $20/$15 for members, and will be available at the door, or online at the Brattle's website. Join us to celebrate independent film at the 14th Annual Chlotrudis Awards!

If you want to hit the Brattle really early for the Awards, you can join us for the Sunday Eye Opener, Sunday morning at 11 a.m. (then we'll kick you out while we rehearse our ceremony!) This week we're doing something different, and it's sure to be a lot of fun. It is a classic film that will be screened at the Brattle's upcoming "No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action & 60s Japan" series in April. THE WARPED ONES is one of director Koreyoshi Kurahara's boldest departures from studio convention This frantic, black-and-white portrait of youth culture gone wild, stars Kawachi as Akira, a punk who hangs out at a jazz coffee house, living and breathing the wild Western music. Sent to jail for pickpocketing, he meets like-minded Masaru (Go), and when they get out they get together with a hooker friend and go on a crime spree that ranges from theft to rape. Afterwards, they shack up, sharing sex as they would cigarettes. They soon find, however, that actions do have consequences: sometimes violent, fatal, and absurd. Released not long after Godard's BREATHLESS, THE WARPED ONES has similarly amoral characters, frenetic pace, and dynamic hand-held cinematography, but Kurahara's vision is, if anything, more extreme, even to the point of existing in a world of its own, beyond normal comprehension. Kawachi's famously uninhibited performance catapults the film into the highest ranks of "bad youth" cinema. A stylistic and amoral high point of early 60s cinema.

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, March 28 - April 4, 2008.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Recent Raves
I'm Not There Chlotrudis Awards Nominee! (Fri.)
Protagonist Chotrudis Awards Nominee! (Fri.)
Youth Without Youth (Mon. & Tue.)
Charlie Wilson's War (Wed.)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Wed.)
Women In Film & Video New England Presents The 2008 Image Awards Festival
Frank: A Vietnam Veteran Director Susi Walsh Awarded (Sat.)
The Blue Diner Natatcha Estebanez Awarded (Sat.)
My Country, My Country Joyce Kulhawik & Jocelyn Glatzer Awarded (Sat.)
The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film presents the 14th Annual Chlotrudis Awards! (Sun.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Snow Angels
Paranoid Park
The Counterfeiters
Persepolis
Chicago 10
The Savages
Midnite Madness
Best of the 48-Hour Film Project (Fri. & Sat.)
Croation Film Series
The Red Dust (Sun.)
Brookline Mental Health Center Movie Event
The Heart of the Game (Mon.)
Brookline Booksmith Presents
Jhumpa Lahiri (Thu.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Atonement
There Will Be Blood
The Savages

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
21
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Juno
Persepolis

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
The Wandering Company: Merchant Ivory Productions in India
The Householder & Autobiography of a Princess Director James Ivory in Attendance! (Fri.)
Heat & Dust Director James Ivory in Attendance! (Sat.)
Shakespeare Wallah (Sun.)
In Custody (Sun.)
Bombay Talkie (Sun.)
Manoel de Oliveira, or Cinema, the Art of Enigma
Abraham's Valley (Sat.)
Dziga Vertov and the Soviet Avant-Garde
A Sixth Part of the World & Bed and Sofa Live Piano Accompaniment by Donald Sosin (Mon.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
The Counterfeiters
Flawless
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Stop-Loss
Run, Fat Boy, Run
Quantum Hoops
Shelter
CJ7
Married Life
The Conterfeiters
The Band's Visit
In Bruges

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
21
Run, Fat Boy, Run
Married Life
In Bruges
The Band's Visit
Juno

Lexington Flick, Lexington
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
21
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Juno
There Will Be Blood

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston Turkish Film Festival Opening Night!
Award-winning Documentary and Short Films (Fri.)
A Man's Fear of God (Fri.)
Bliss (Sat.)
Saturn in Opposition (Sat.)
Fog and Night (Wed.)
Riza (Thu.)
Art on Film
Dream of Light (Sat.)
Monet’s Water Lilies: Vision and Design (Sun.)
Director Presents
Today the Hawk Takes One Chick Director in attendance (Sat.)
Inspirational Cinema
Beyond Belief (Sat.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
Caramel
The Counterfeiters
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
La Vie En Rose
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
On Broadway
Persepolis
The Savages
There Will Be Blood

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 28 March 2008

Chlotrudis Tuesday Night at the Movies + Indie Film Round-Up, March 21 - 27

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

It's back to the movies this week. Thanks to Beth Caldwell for hosting last week's Chlotrudis movie of the week! This week join us on Tuesday for a change of pace: Stephen Chow's wacky CJ7! Known for nutty slapstick imports such as the popular KUNG FU HUSTLE and SHAOLIN SOCCER, Chow is back with his take on an E.T. type tale. It's sure to be as crazy as it is silly. Chlotrudis is all for a little variety. Join us on Tuesday at the Kendall Square Cinema for the 7:20 screening of CJ7.

Another big indie opener at the Kendall this week is David Gordon Green's SNOW ANGELS, but we're holding off until next week for that one so we can watch it at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. This week at the Coolidge you can check out the new documentary CHICAGO 10 that merges animation with extraordinary archival footage to explore the Chicago Conspiracy Trial of Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale and others. Fans of Fath Akin's 2005 film HEAD-ON will want to check out his follow-up, THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, which opens the Boston Turkish Fim Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday night. The Boston Underground Film Festival takes over the Brattle Theatre and the Harvard Square Cinema this weekend, so if you're looking for true independent filmmaking, check out some of their offerings.

The Sunday Eye Opener Returns this week with the U.S. indie CHOP SHOP. Director Ramin Bahrani won the "Someone to Watch Award" at this year's Independent Spirit Awards and hist latest film has been warmly received by critics all over the country. As he did in his striking 2005 first feature film, MAN PUSH CART, about a Pakistani street vendor in New York, perceptive indie filmmaker Ramin Bahrani looks at what others overlook and finds drama in everyday details. Set in a bleak junkyard cor¬ner of Queens, where ''auto-body repair'' is indistinguishable from auto-part theft, this gentle drama of getting by in a harsh city jungle features a 12-year-old Latino orphan (Alejandro Polanco) who already knows something about the working world, and his older sister (Isamar Gonzales), who doesn't yet. Join us Sunday morning for this 11:00 a.m. screening at the Brattle Theatre, followed by discussion led by Ivy Moylan.

Of course the big news for Chlotrudis is the 14th Annual Chlotrudis Awards, taking place Sunday, March 30, 5 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre. This year's celebration of independent film will feature musical numbers, film clips, the announcement of the Society's picks for the best in independent film in 2007 and special guests! We're thrilled to announce our first attending honoree, Canadian actress Alberta Watson. Ms. Watson first caught indie-America's attention as the object of her son's interest in the feature SPANKING THE MONKEY (although real movie buffs might remember her from the horror film, THE KEEP). Since then she has made strong showings in supporting roles in a variety of films including THE SWEET HEREAFTER, HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH, THE LOOKOUT, and AWAY FROM HER. Join us to celebrate independent film at the 14th Annual Chlotrudis Awards!

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, March 21 - 27, 2008.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Boston Underground Film Festival
Shorts Program: Fresh Cuts! Free Screening! (Fri.)
The Wizard of Gore Director Present! (Fri.)
Shorts Program: Hyperreel (Fri.)
Le Belle Bete (Fri. & Sat.)
Pop Skull (Fri.)
Shorts Reel: Ocular Penetration (Fri.)
A Day in Leah Land: The Films of Leah Myerhoff (Sat.)
Altamont Now (Sat.)
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story & Adam, Vampire (Sat.)
Who is KK Downey (Sat.)
Il Bosco Fuori (Sat.)
Shorts Program: Earthworms in Space (Sun.)
Shorts Program: Staring into the Abyss (Sun.)
Underbelly (Sun.)
Otis (Sun.)
Sunday Eye Opener
Chop Shop (Sun.)
Recent Raves!
War/Dance (Mon. & Tue.)
The Orphanage (Wed & Thu.)
Special Event! ZipCar and National Geographic Present a Free Screening!
Arctic Tale (Wed.)

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Chicago 10
Paranoid Park
The Counterfeiters
Persepolis
The Savages
Big Screen Classics
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Sun.)
Coolidge Award Retrospective Series Honoring British Film Producer Jeremy Thomas
The Last Emperor (Mon.)
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Film Club
Copying Beethovan (Wed.)

FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Be Kind Rewind
There Will Be Blood
The Savages

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
On Broadway
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Juno
Persepolis

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Manoel de Oliveira, or Cinema, the Art of Enigma
Francisca (Fri.)
Doomed Love (Sat.)
Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Sun.)
Day of Despair (Sun.)
Rite of Spring, The Hunt, & The Painter and the City (Sun.)
My Case (Mon.)
I'm Going Home (Mon.)
Christopher Columbus, or, the Enigma (Thu.)
Non, or the Vain Glory of Command (Thu.)

Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
Be Kind Rewind
La Vie En Rose
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Sleepwalking Through the Mekong

Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Military Intelligence and You!
Snow Angels
CJ7
Married Life
The Conterfeiters
The Band's Visit
Paranoid Park
In Bruges

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
Funny Games U.S.
Married Life
In Bruges
The Band's Visit
Juno
Sleepwalking

Lexington Flick, Lexington
Juno
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Funny Games U.S.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Juno
There Will Be Blood
Boston Underground Film Festival
Quality Time (Fri.)
Technicolor Psychotica (Fri.)
Onward to Calgary (Sat.)
Pop Skull (Sat.)
The Road to Nod (Sat.)
You're So Not Serious (Sat.)
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story & Adam, Vampire (Sun.)
Insert Title Here (Sun.)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Inspirational Cinema
Beyond Belief (Sat., Sun., Wed., & Thu.)
Facing Realities
Forest of Bliss (Sat.)
Today the Hawk Takes One Chick (Sat., Sun. & Thu.)
French Cinema
Boston Premiere Engagement: The Duchess of Langeais (Sat., Sun. & Wed.)
Asbury Shorts
The World's Best Short Film (Sat.)
Black Maria Film Festival
Selections from the 27th Black Maria Festival (Thu.)
Boston Turkish Film Festival Opening Night!
The Edge of Heaven (Thu.)

The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
Caramel
The Counterfeiters
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
On Broadway
The Savages
There Will Be Blood

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President

Posted 21 March 2008

Chlotrudis Movie of the Week + Indie Film Round-Up, March 14 - 20

Hello, Chlotrudis Members!

I've been very bad at getting this message out on time for you these last few weeks and I apologize. I've also been pretty bad at selecting Chlotrudis movies of the week recently, and this week does not change that pattern. We are in the midst of Chlotrudis Award planning and this week our schedule is booked up with rehearsals for the musical numbers. Board member Beth Caldwell may be organizing a Chlotrudis Movie of the Week this week, and if she does so, you'll read about it here. That doesn't mean there aren't some intriguing new released you shouldn't be checking out. Here are a few to consider.

MARRIED LIFE is the new film by Ira Sachs, the filmmaker who brought us the little-seen but worthwhile FORTY SHADES OF BLUE. His latest film is a comedy about a man who is having an affair but is too worried about breaking his wife's heart to leave her. Instead he decides to kill her to spare her the heartbreak. It's set in the 1940's which invokes all sorts of comparisons to Todd Haynes' FAR FROM HEAVEN, and by extension the films of Douglas Sirk even though it is not a melodrama. The cast is uniformly excellent, with Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson as the couple in question, a surprisingly funny Pierce Brosnan as the man's best friend, and Rachel McAdams as the object of his affections. It's not a perfect film; the pace and the script are both uneven, but for the cast alone, this one's worth checking out.

Fans of Gus Van Sant will want to head over to the Coolidge Corner this week to catch is latest film PARANOID PARK. This film centered on skateboard culture provided a robust and fascinating discussion at last week's Sunday Eye Opener. A sixteen-year-old boy finds a connection with the skating subculture at Paranoid Park, but after a devastating accident occurs at the freight train yards, his life and his perceptions are radically changed. PARANOID PARK is the first Van Sant collaboration with star cinematographer Christopher Doyle, and the result is a lush, dreamlike vision of the Pacific Northwest, whether focusing on the windswept coast, or the concrete expanses of a skateboard park.

Other new films to check out include FUNNY GAMES, Michael Haneke's curious U.S. remake of his own 1997 Austrian film. This in-your-face, aggressive film was shocking and powerful when first released. Was the remake needed? That's your decision to make. The Brazilian film ALICE'S HOUSE, about family, relationships and trust, features a star turn by actress Carla Ribas. BLINDSIGHT is a powerful UK film set against the backdrop of the Himalays. Six Tibetan teenagers set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest, a treacherous journey made all the more astounding by the fact that they are blind.

Of course the big news for Chlotrudis is the 14th Annual Chlotrudis Awards, taking place Sunday, March 30, 5 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre. This year's celebration of independent film will feature musical numbers, film clips, the announcement of the Society's picks for the best in independent film in 2007 and special guests! We're thrilled to announce our first attending honoree, Canadian actress Alberta Watson. Ms. Watson first caught indie-America's attention as the object of her son's interest in the feature SPANKING THE MONKEY (a