Chlotrudis Tuesday Night at the Movies + Indie Film Round-Up, December 7 - 13

Hello Chlotrudis Members!

I won't be organizing this week's Tuesday Night at the Movies, but I do have two new releases opening at the Kendall Square Cinema that I highly recommend you try and catch this week. The first is Jessica Yu's PROTAGONIST, an outstanding documentary that several of us caught at the Provincetown International Film Festival, then when it played it's limited run earlier this year at the Coolidge. This ambitious film explores four men's vastly different stories and likens then all to the Greek tragedies of Euripides using marionettes! It's outstanding. I would also recommend Dorris D�e's HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE which was a Sunday Eye Opener offering several weeks ago. It's fun and highly entertaining, although your mileage may vary because I do know others were less enthusiastic.

Exploring extremism and the limits of certainty, this visually inventive documentary from writer/director Jessica Yu (IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL) weaves the stories of four men�a German terrorist, a bank robber, an "ex-gay" evangelist and a martial arts student�who are consumed by personal odysseys. At first glance the characters appear disconnected. But as their stories unfold, parallels emerge. Each character embarks on a journey for valid reasons, only to find himself so deeply embedded in the cause that he becomes the opposite of what he had intended. He is blind to this fact, though, until the forces of fate and character boil and distill to a single moment of dark epiphany.
Director: Jessica Yu

Move over Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance! Writer/director Doris D�e (ENLIGHTENMENT GUARANTEED) turns her attention to Buddhism and that age-old saying, "You are what you eat." In her charming new documentary, D�e enlists the help of the charismatic, San Francisco-based Zen Master Edward Espe Brown, a bestselling cookbook author (The Tassajara Recipe Book, among others), to explain the guiding principles of Zen Buddhism as they apply to organic ingredients, the preparation of food and everyday life. Do we cook food? Or does food cook us? (Partially subtitled)
Director: Doris D�e

The Harvard AMC Theatre has a couple of intriguing new releases this week that could be worth a look as well. WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? is the new documentary produced by Morgan Spurlock of SUPER SIZE ME fame. This seasonally appropriate film examines the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) Another documentary that has been getting good buzz is DARFUR NOW, also playing at the Harvard Square Theatre. This is a story of hope in the midst of one of humanity's darkest hours � a call to action for people everywhere to end the catastrophe unfolding in Darfur, Sudan.

Lots to see, but I'm going to be catching up with some Hollywood blockbusters in your local cinemplex. I'm hoping to catch THE GOLDEN COMPASS over the weekend, and ENCHANTED sometime next week. Don't tell anyone!

See you at the movies!

Playing this week, December 7 - 13, 2007.

Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
A Tribute to Ingmar Bergman
Persona (Fri.)
Shame (Sat.)
Hour of the Wolf (Sat.)
The Passion of Anna (Sun.)
Serpent's Egg (Sun.)
Face to Face (Mon.)
Autumn Sonata (Tue.)
Cries and Whispers (Tue.)
Saraband (Wed.)
Exclusive Area Premiere! Filmmakers in Person!
Undoing (Fri. - Sun.)
Elements of Cinema Free Screening and Discussion
Il Posto (Sat.)
The MIT Press and MacArthur Foundation Present!
Totally Wired: How Technology is Changing Kids and Learning
Special Event!
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in Smell-O-Vision! (Thu.)


Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
No Country for Old Men
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
War/Dance
For the Bible Tells Me So
Goethe-Institut Boston German Film Series
Windows on a Monday (Sun.)


FEI Theatres
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Into the Wild
Strength and Honour

Somerville Theatre, Somerville
Love in the Time of Cholera
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Strength and Honour


Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute
The Ballad of Narayam (Fri.)
Zegen (Fri.)
Pigs and Battleships (Sat.)
The Insect Woman (Sat.)
Ladies of Night & My Second Brother (Sun.)
Stolen Desire (Sun.)
Endless Desire (Sun.)
Black Rain (Mon.)
The Eel (Mon.)


Hollywood Hits Theatre, Danvers
I'm Not There
No Country for Old Men
Margot at the Wedding
Strength and Honour


Landmark Theatres
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Protagonist
How To Cook Your Life
Atonement
Romance and Cigarettes
I'm Not There
Margot at the Wedding
No Country for Old Men
Lars & the Real Girl
The Darjeeling Limited

Embassy Cinema, Waltham
I'm Not There
No Country for Old Men
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Lars & the Real Girl
The Darjeeling Limited
Into the Wild


Lexington Flick, Lexington
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead


Loew's Harvard Square, Cambridge
Revolver
What Would Jesus Buy?
Darfur Now
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Oh Moon (Fri.)
Turkish Cinema
Times and Winds (Fri. & Sun.)
What's a Human Anyway? (Sun.)
New England Film Artists Present
Profit Motive and the whispering wind (Sat. & Thu.)
Two Films by Peter Greenaway
The Draughtsman's Contract (Sat.)
A Zed and Two Noughts (Sat.)
Art on Film
Monet's Water Lillies (Sun.)
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (Thu.)
Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments (Thu.)
Music On Film
Creating Harmony: The Displaced Persons Orchestra from St. Ottilien (Sun.)
French Cinema
Family Hero (Thu.)


The Newburyport Screening Room, Newburyport
The Darjeeling Limited


West Newton Cinema, West Newton, MA
Atonement
Margot at the Wedding
Bella
Lust, Caution
Strength & Honour

COMING SOON!

BU CINEMATHEQUE - Fall 2007!

It�s the Fall 2007 BU Cinematheque, meetings with filmmakers, and screenings of important, innovative films and videos, sponsored by the Film and Television Department, BU College of Communication. The evenings are programmed by Gerald Peary, a film studies professor at Suffolk University and a Boston Phoenix film critic.

The screenings below are, unless otherwise indicated, at the
BU College of Communication, 640 Comm. Ave., Boston, Room B-05. FREE to BU students and staff and their friends. Transportation: the �B� Boston College Green Line, the first stop at BU past Kenmore Square.

Friday, December 7. BU Sargent College, 635 Comm. Ave., Room 102, 7 pm. AN EVENING WITH RICH DAHM. Co-Executive Producer and Head Writer in New York of the beloved TV program, "The Colbert Report", Dahm has a career which stretches from student days at the original The Onion in Madison, Wisconsin, to his hilarious book, The Cultural Idiocy Quiz, to writing episodes of "Da Ali G Show." At BU. Dahm will introduce and discuss a Hollywood comedy which greatly influenced him, Albert Brooks�s uproarious narcissistic classic of failed dating, MODERN ROMANCE (1981), the only movie ever in which the main character is a (pre-Avid) film editor. Get ready for funny, funny Steembeck jokes!

That's all for now!

Michael R. Colford
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President