Sun Wu-Kong is a character in Chinese lore that I grew up with, so it is of particular interest to me that Alexis Gideon will be reinventing it in rock opera form. This will be showing at Disjecta at 8:00pm on September 3rd.
Check out this description:
A one-hour multimedia video opera based on the 16th-century Chinese novel The Journey to the West, Video Musics IIjoins the brightest lights of contemporary animation (Becca Taylor (Punk Planet, Arthur); Cynthia Star (Coraline, Moral Orel, Robot Chicken); Ezra Claytan Daniels (The Changers and Black Violet)) with the most promising talents of contemporary music (Rachel Blumberg (M Ward, Arch Cape); Cory Gray (Norfolk & Western, Carcrashlander);Shelley Short (Hush)) to create an aural and visual universe that gleefully transcends both media. Is it film or music, high art or pop? Gideon’s work would fit snugly at either the Whitney Biennial or SXSW, which is to say it cannot be contained, really, by either venue. Marked throughout by the ambition, commitment to detail, and refusal to settle that have earned Gideon a cult following on both sides of the pond.
Judging by the company Gideon keeps, this is going to be amazing, musically, visually, and all around creatively.
After four years and 20,000 guests served, filmmaker George Motz and the team behind the NYC Food Film Festival are pleased to announce the first annual Chicago Food Film Festival, taking place September 24-25 at the MCA Warehouse. Packed with mouth-watering documentaries, features, short films and food, the festival brings you the opportunity to taste what you see on screen for a multi-sensory, full-bodied experience.
Kicking off with Edible Adventure #002 on September 24th, each film is paired with a tasting of its subject matter. Nuggets of fried cheese curds, corn dogs, and other fair foods are served with the film Eat Your Fill, directed by Mark Irving, where a man eats every menu item that is fried and/or on a stick at the Wisconsin State Fair, to special ice creams paired with trippy The Death & Life of Ice Cream, directed by Orrin Zucker. Look out for other delectable matches of films and food involving oysters and exotic sodas like Fanny Bay oysters served during the screening of Craig Noble’s The Perfect Oyster and exotic sodas paired with the award-winning Soda Pop.
Closing night, September 25th, takes you on the Chicago Burger ‘N Beer Experience, curated by Chicago’s own Chef Michael Kornick. While feasting on burgers supplied by Kornick’s DMK Burger Bar and drinking independent beers from Chicago and beyond, festival-goers can feast their eyes on films such as Beer Wars, directed by Anat Baron, and The Best of Hamburger America, directed by Festival Director George Motz.
The festival sprang from the imagination of George, after the critical success of Hamburger America film and book, along with co-creator Harry Hawk, formerly of Schnack and Water Taxi Beach. ??In 2009, acclaimed director Ron Mann called the festival “his absolute favorite” after his film Know Your Mushrooms was screened and followed by a 10-course mushroom-inspired tasting menu from Next Iron Chef star Brad Farmerie of Public and Double Crown. Other past events have included a screening of Whole Hog by Joe York, during which over 1000 people feasted on whole hog barbeque. Following a screening of the food film classic Big Night, the audience enjoyed a re-creation of the famous Timpano featured in the film. And at the World Premiere of Florent: Queen of the Meat Market for one night only the audience was treated to memorable menu items from the shuttered iconic restaurant.
For those who act quickly, the Festival is offering a limited number of discounted VIP Passes and Pre-Sale Tickets to most events beginning this evening, Thursday, August 19th at 5 PM CST. Visit www.chicagofoodfilmfestival.com to order online.
Sally Tomato’s rock opera, Toy Room, arrived with a cover that boasted of four acts and ten accumulated laurels from the 2009 festival circuit. I pretty much always watch rock operas with hesitation, for their qualities are largely determined by the quality of their music. Toy Room was met with similar levels of hesitation.
The music of Toy Room is mostly competent, falling under all genres, from synthpop and alternative to hard rock and new age. There’s even an electronic track replete with Autotune! Not all of it is top-notch, but there are a couple songs that stand out; the rest are generic songwriting central, but they seem to fit pretty well with this film. Take that as you will.
What did seem like it took intensive time and energy was the editing. Toy Room was originally a stage-performed rock opera, the film swaps between scenes filmed from live performances to clips of weird karaoke-cheesy shots. The transition scenes are heavily edited, with fade-ins and montages galore. Whoever edited this film decided to pull out all the stops, and stylistically, it seem like every basic post-production trick was included… in an early ’90s sort of way.
Toy Room tells the story of a young lady who grows up lonely, finds refuge in her fantasy world, becomes involved in a shoddy marriage, and then finds freedom in rock concerts and coincidental self-enlightenment. Like the editing, the storyline goes all over the place and was certainly aiming kind of high when it was crafted. Nonetheless, some of the songs and lyrics are downright dumb; one childhood flashback recalling Sally’s purchase of a doll features a boring alternative rock song with horrendously mundane lyrics: “Don’t worry about the price/ Just pick one that’s nice.” And to describe the doll: “She has big eyes and a frozen tear/ There is no crying here.” Remedial English lyrics, galore.
It is the moments when the play/film/music turns slightly darker that the music is actually tolerable. That makes the accompanying visuals in those scenes also somewhat tolerable.
Musically, stylistically, and visually, this film is all over the place… and I have a hard time determining who on Earth the target market could possibly be. No matter, though. I can’t say I would really recommend this film to anybody, despite the hours and hours, I’m sure, that were put into it. To the filmmakers’ credit, though, everyone certainly went all out. Balls to the wall, if you will. I suppose if it were the actual performance and not a hodge-podge of a DVD, things would fare slightly better.
A band’s claim for being the “loudest live band on the planet” gets thrown around quite often — and why shouldn’t it? If your band is reliant on distortion, just crank those knobs and make some eardrums bleed. That is, at least, the mentality for a lot of bands. And while the Scottish post-rock tour de force Mogwai don’t quite fit into that mentality, they are one of the loudest live bands you’ll ever see — a fact that is no doubt agreed upon by everyone who has witnessed the sonic force.
Burning was recorded over three shows Mogwai played in April of 2009 in Brooklyn, New York City. The subsequent black and white film by Le Blogotheque directors Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnec attempts the largely impossible task of capturing the ferocity and the serenity of Mogwai on stage. By far and large, the filmmakers succeed.
The film opens with “The Precipice”, one of the heavier jams Mogwai are known to break into, and it is clear from this song how the film will unravel — with lots of long takes, lots of close-ups on guitar-playing hands, and lots of contrast. This third aspect is really the key to the film, though. Moon and Le Scouarnec juxtapose a soothing black against a very hard and light white, and it is perfectly fitting to what the band projects through their sound. Mogwai, after all, virtually wrote the book on how to go from nothing to everything in a heartbeat.
The filming on songs like “I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead” is much more subdued while still maintaining the style of long shots and close-ups. But the pacing of the shots are longer and lack jerky motions – the style fitting Mogwai’s gentler moments. When the song picks up, however, the intensity of the camera’s shots and movements do as well. When Mogwai get roaring musically, jerky movements render the film nearly unwatchable; during similar moments in a live setting, the band’s is nearly
unlistenable due to sheer noise volume. Once again, Moon and Le Scouarnec do a great job of mirroring the band.
The key with Burning is that it is for Mogwai fans only. The film is not a good introduction to the band, because no matter how hard they try, Moon and Le Scouarnec have an impossible task of capturing one of the most dramatic live bands around. At only around eight songs, the film is a bit short, but the filmmakers’ simple and artistic approach lends itself fantastically to Burning.
Seattle’s cutest film festival is all systems go for 2010! The third annual CouchFest will be happening at your Seattle neighbor’s houses on November 7th, 2010. What? You don’t know what Couchfest is?
“Starting every hour, each inviting house will have its own unique 30 minute program of short films. You, early adopter and a lover of film, may visit the houses with themes that interest you. The houses will be comfortably located near each other so you can stroll, meander or bike with excitement and anticipation to your next selected house. There will be a short intermission during each individual program where you and your couch neighbors can gripe or praise the films you are watching. Ultimately, the hope is that you might interact, share and discover fellow lovers of film.”
You might have heard of DIY shows, but this is a DIY film festival. And it needs more Y! Go to http://couchfestfilms.com/submit.htm to find out how to submit your own short film. There’s no submission fee, no restriction on location, and even a Golden Couch Award that you may or may not win! And if you live in Seattle and you want to provide a couch/DVD player/TV, just go to the website, dummy!
It was the perfect setting for the classic food film, It’s Grits: a sweltering 90+ degree Sunday in a big tent, with everyone fanning themselves with their program booklets, in a venue called the Tobacco Warehouse. It felt like being in the Deep South, the home of grits themselves, with one exception; it was the middle of Dumbo, Brooklyn, and it was mostly Yankees in attendance. A bonafide Yankee born and raised, I have only tried grits a few times and found it difficult to believe that a short film from the
’70s was going to convince me that they were the perfect food item. It was a pleasant surprise to be proven so wrong.
It’s Grits is a charming B&W documentary by director Stan Woodward, filmed mostly through interviews with Southerners, done on what was probably a minuscule budget. Even though the movie was celebrating its 32nd anniversary this year, it still feels fresh because this documentary style is all the more common now in films. With the thesis that, “Everyone from all walks of life in the South eats grits,” Woodward creates his delicious palate and draws the viewer into the delicate story line. After countless confirmations of his thesis in South Carolina, he takes us up north to New York, New York, where, at an ethnic food fair (which looks like it is on the Brooklyn waterfront close to where the movie screening took place), he asks people if they like grits. Most people don’t know what it is, but don’t seem to care; one guy offers him falafel instead, convinced it’s the better choice.
The majority of the movie is filled with humorous, endearing encounters and images. There is even a “Grits cheer” at a football game in South Carolina, and an interview with a man who eats his grits with a dollop of peanut butter. But the undertone is that the agriculture and industry based around corn in the South is faltering, and it needs revitalization. There are a lot of images or corn mills and machinery alongside interviews with the mill owners and corn growers, and they seem all the more depressing in black and white. This was 30 years ago, and a lot has changed since then, but the North/South divide still exists in spirit.
If we can ever reach an accord regarding this deep divide, grits might be the answer. Following the movie, we took part in a Grits “takedown” in which 30 local chefs prepared their own take on grits, and we viewers/participants got to sample each one and vote on our favorite. It was a wonderful experience and a well-run event, and most (if not all of us Northerners) left happy and full of grits.
And so another year’s Seattle International Film Festival comes to a close. You might be saying “Hey! You only watched like eight movies? What kind of publication is this?!” Tut tut, readers. We here at Redefine watched a boat load of movies! We just couldn’t find the time/space/wherewithal to write about every single one.
But because we love you guys, and to prove to my editor that I really did watch all those movies I said I watched, here’s 29 mini-reviews of all the films I saw that I didn’t get a chance to write about.
Air Doll - Japan
Korean actress Bae Do Na (The Host) stars as a sex doll given a soul. “Nozomi” partakes of all the wonders of human life: some sunshine, a part time job, some casual sex, and murder. But does she deserve this gift? It’s like Pinocchio, if Geppetto gave him a rubber vagina.
Amer - Belgium
Giallo is more than just the color red and extreme close ups of sweaty women. There’s supposed to be a little bit of pulp in there too! All style no substance. Second portion is exceptionally long and drawn out.
Beyond Ipanema - Brazil
Brazillian music is cool. A bunch of Americans think that. Brazillians are surprised that Americans think that. A musical movement is born! Too bad it’s already over.
Cargo - Switzerland
What do you get when you cross Sunshine and The Matrix? An irredeemable, Hindenburg-esque atrocity of a movie. When it starts you ask “where is this going?” When it ends, you answer “absolutely nowhere.” Shitty European CG doesn’t help either.
Castaway on the Moon - Korea
Korea’s take on Castaway. Worthless man is trapped on an island in the middle of Seoul. Internet-living woman sees him out of her window. Woman wants a human connection, man just want Black Bean Noodles. Duck boat suffers.
The Concert - Russia
Charming, slightly cloying movie about an over-the-hill orchestra. Also, Jews being Jews. Take your parents, they’ll think you’re the best. The woman from Inglorious Basterds is gorgeous.
Crossing Hennessy - Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s take on When Harry met Sally. Asians feel love too! Especially over dimsum. Director Ivy Ho has a way with dialogue, but when the dialogue disappears, the movie plods.
Dear Lemon Lima - USA
Charming, adorable, cute, funny and earnest. Like all the non-sci fi parts of Donnie Darko. Even half-eskimo, suburban girls just wanna have fun! Fun movie for all ages.
Disco and the Atomic War - Estonia
Low, low, low budget documentary on propaganda experiments during the Cold War. More interesting than it sounds! Estonia is used as a media lab rat by the USSR due to its proximity to Norwegian radio waves. Communists want to see what all the fuss about, Estonians ask, “Who Shot JR?”
Hipsters - Russia
It’s hard out here for a teenager in Communist Russia. Glee meets Glasnost as young good-fer-nothing Russians trade their bootstraps for wingtips, wear Technicolor clothes. I personally liked the uptight Katya more than either of the leads.
Holy Rollers - USA
It’s hard out here for a young Hasidic ecstasy dealer. Jesse Eisenberg is probably a better actor than Michael Cera. The dude from the Hangover plays the best orthodox douchebag. Based on a true story.
Howl - USA
Pros: James Franco plays Allen Ginsberg. Cons: Like watching a Wikipedia article about Howl. Useless and disappointing if you’ve read the work. Who’s bright idea was it to animate Howl? Animation looks like a Fantasia fan-project loaded with cocks.
I Killed My Mother - Canada
It’s hard out there for a French-Canadian gay teenager. Pretty good movie for a 21 year old. Moms are the worst! Aren’t they? Main protagonist still comes off as a bit entitled and bratty.
K-20: The Fiend with 20 Faces - Japan
Batman Begins with a lower budget and a mounted camera. Kids in movies are still annoying. When did Steam Punk = Nikolai Tesla fan-fiction? There’s probably going to be a sequel.
Kanikosen - Japan
What the hell is this movie about? Proletariat prisoners on a crab canning prison ship invent unions, have dreams about tossing a beach ball. Chinese caricature on a Russian crabbing ship imparts valuable wisdom. I can’t tell if it’s interesting or not.
Like You Know It All - Korea
Talky movie about a young, shitty director and the shitty things he does. There isn’t a single likable person in this movie. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing! Also, film directors are all fucked up people.
Night Catches Us - USA
Philly in the 70’s never looked so cool. Good performances by all the leads, excellent costuming. Even better music. It’s hard out here for a young black man in a post-Panthers world (no joke).
The Oath - USA
Excellent documentary about reformed Jihadists. Abu Jandal might be the greatest motivational speaker of our time. He’s so good even I considered Jihad for a second.
The Penitent Man - USA
Fuck this movie. This is the movie the douchebag in your quantum physics class tries to make. Blah blah blah blah blah wormhole blah blah blah blah die. This is the worst movie Lance Henriksen has ever been in.
Plug and Pray - Germany
Could God build a robot so smart even God couldn’t beat it? Could man? SHOULD man? Also, the Japanese are still creepy.
Protektor - Czech Republic
Czech radio ain’t what it’s cracked up to be. Leading lady Jana Plodkova has gorgeous eyes, Protektor has gorgeous art direction. But ultimately, if you’ve seen one Nazis vs Films period piece you’ve seen them all.
Queen of the Sun - USA
Bees are really important. Bees are really in danger. Beekeepers are 95% crazy people. This documentary makes it’s point about half way through, and then goes off the deep end of bee admiration. Credits song is ridiculous, on par with the Monster Squad closing theme.
Rapt - France
French Asshole rich guy is kidnapped, no one cares. Criminals, frustrated that no one cares, release him sans a finger. Asshole levels up in assholery. Too Haneke or not too Haneke?
RoboGeisha - Japan
Unlike it’s nihilistic, unfeeling brethren (Tokyo Gore Police, Meatball Machine), RoboGeisha offers a little bit of heart and soul with its pop-culture detonation and gory slapstick. Exactly like aforementioned brethren, the movie lags a bit in the middle during the exposition. Bad guys: “It hurts when you cut me!”
The Sentimental Engine Slayer - USA
Mars Volta guy makes Mars Volta-esque movie about El Paso teen life. Masochistic to make, masochistic to watch. Joyless. It’s hard out here for a sociopathic, hooker choking, tranny fucking teen.
Skeletons - United Kingdom
Finally, a sci-fi movie that actually kind of works! Two dudes go around cleaning out people’s closets (read: secrets). Probably more enjoyable then that DiCaprio “I’m in ur dreams solving ur crimes” movie. Maybe it’s because everything sounds wittier with a British accent.
Some Days Are Better Than Others - USA
It’s hard out here for a twenty-something in Portland. James Mercer does a decent job, especially with the atrocious dialogue he’s given. Me and You and Everyone who watched this movie should demand their two hours back.
Vengeance - Hong Kong
Vengeance is not blind; it just has a memory problem. Old hitman seeking revenge for his daughter’s assault hires cool looking hitmen to kill cool looking hitmen. But sometimes even he can’t tell Asians apart! Lol! Nice to watch Johnnie To movie that isn’t about Triad politics.
William S Burroughs: A Man Within - USA
Burroughs is insane, we all know that. But did you know that he was like the King Midas of Insane? Everything he touches goes nutso. Even Peter Weller is batshit crazy now.
Whew! Glad that’s out of the way. See you next year, SIFF.
Back when Saturday Night Live was still funny, Robert Duvall appeared in a sketch called “Who’s More Grizzled,” where contestants on a game show riff on subjects to show their grizzled-ness. Of course, Mr. Duvall won handily. No one does old and ornery better than Duvall. Get Low is his latest entry into the Grizzled Hall of Fame, with Duvall playing Felix Bush, a woodsy, ornery, secretive hermit in Depression-era California. Sensing that his passing is near, Felix uses a large, dirty ball of money to convince Bill Murray and Lucas Black (of Tokyo Drift fame!) to hold a big fancy funeral for him. While he’s still alive.
The majority of the movie is a bit of fluff, there isn’t much to be gained from Felix’s story or secret or his relationships with the other characters in the movie. It feels like more of a victory lap for Duvall, who gets all the best lines, as well as the last laugh. The supporting cast turns in excellent performances (Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black especially), but they all seem to be holding back and kowtowing to the venerable Duvall. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Basically, Get Low is 100 minutes of Robert Duvall doing his thing while Bill Murray cracks funny here and there. Duvall’s ornery crank is a classic character: old, embittered, wise, weathered, honest, wistful, human. It’s not really an impactful or meaningful film by any stretch, but I can think of a worse way to spend an evening.
Get Low was screened at the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival. It will be the festival’s closing night movie, screening on Sunday, June 13th at the Cinerama at 6:30pm.
Taipei is a gorgeous city at night. Writer/Director Arvin Chen obviously knows this, and reveals this (poorly kept) secret to the world in his debut feature Au Revoir Taipei. This unrelentingly adorable film focuses on a single night in the titular city, following a young man named Kai (Jack Yao) and his quest to win back his ex-girlfriend who is studying in Paris. This involves him acquiring a one-way plane ticket to his former love, which he can only get with assistance from a local “made man” who is quietly trying to go legit. With the help of his tall but meek friend Gao (literally “high”), and the mousy but surprisingly forward Susie, Kai dodges wanna-be gangsters in bright orange suits with only one thing on his mind: love.
The leads may be a capable, adorable couple but the city is the true star. The film captures eloquently some of the most charming aspects of the city: the multicolored broadways, the lush night markets, the hedge maze that is the Eslite main store. Au Revoir Taipei is a caper that is constantly interrupted by the city’s many treats. Kidnappers take a side route to pick up some dumplings. A chase through the park is stopped by the neighborhood midnight exercise squad. A conversation between gangsters is interrupted by the loud slurping of beef noodle soup. It’s quintessential Taipei.
A perfectly balanced hybrid of Wong Kar Wai’s chaotic urbanism and Wes Anderson’s quirky cadence, Au Revoir Taipei is a universally enjoyable movie, a strong first film and an endearing document on the natural charm of Taipei, a city that never sleeps.
Au Revoir Taipei was screened at the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival and can be seen on these dates:
June 12th - Kirkland Performance Center @ 6:00 PM
June 13th - Pacific Place Cinema @ 9:15 PM
A documentary studying why Proposition 8, the constitional amendment banning gay marriage, passed in California. The primary reason they point to is the Mormon Church’s heavy involvement in the movement to stop gay rights.
SHOWTIMES
Mon, June 7 @ 7:00pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Tue, June 8 @ 4:15pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Gordos
Five overweight individuals struggle with images of self in this black comedy, and it doesn’t help that their skinny therapist feels more and more revulsion towards larger individuals as time goes on — especially for his pregnant wife.
SHOWTIMES
Wed, June 2 @ 9:30pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Fri, June 4 @ 11:00am (Pacific Place)
Mon, June 7 @ 9:20pm (Uptown Cinemas)
The Two Horses Of Genghis Khan
The Two Horses Of Genghis Khan (Chingisiyn Hoyor Zagal) is a documentary film about a Mongolian vocalist, Urna Chahar-Tugchi, who is from a family livestock farmers from Inner Mongolia. She promises to repair her grandmother’s violin and find the song inscribed on the violin’s neck — one which originated in the Middle Ages and is utilizes a specific singing technique which makes it possible to sing on horseback for hours.
SHOWTIMES
Thu, June 3 @ 5:00pm (Everett Performing Arts Center)
Sun, June 6 @ 4:00pm (Uptown Cinemas)
Tue, June 8 @ 9:15pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Robogeisha
Robogeisha is an outlandish film where cyborg geishas fire machine guns out of their hands and chop off heads with blades emerging from leg warmers. Directed by Noboru Iguchi, creator of Tokyo Gore Police, RoboGeisha is meant to be ridiculous, and it revels in it.
SHOWTIMES
Fri, May 28 @ Midnight (Egyptian Theatre)
Tue, June 8 @ 10:00pm (Neptune Theatre)
Altiplano
A village falls sick due to pollution from a local mine, and its superstitious residents turn their rage on local doctors. It’s a study between old beliefs versus new ones, and how they connect in our world today.
SHOWTIMES
Wed, June 7 @ 6:30pm (Pacific Place)
Fri, June 9 @ 4:00pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, And Rebel
Hugh Hefner is known as an old man with Playboy girlfriends, but who is he really? This documentary explores his life and how he has influenced female rights and legislature such as Roe v. Wade.
SHOWTIMES
Sat, June 5 @ 6:30pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Sun, June 6 @ 1:30pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Wed, June 9 @ 9:30pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Protektor
A stylish drama set in Nazi-occupied Prague, which explores the fragility of relationships by means of bright, minimalistic visuals.
SHOWTIMES
Wed, June 9 @ 9:00pm (Kirkland Performance Center)
Fri, June 11 @ 6:00pm (Pacific Place)
Sun, June 12 @ 4:00pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Hipsters
Set in 1950s Moscow, Hipsters shows how musicians can break free in the midst of Soviet conformity. A love it or hate it musical some will swoon over and others will abhor.
SHOWTIMES
Sat, June 5 @ 5:45pm (Kirkland Performance Center)
Thu, June 10 @ 6:30pm (Egyptian Theatre)
Sat, June 12 @ 2:30pm (Pacific Place)
Brotherhood
Brotherhood explores how homosexuality changes when placed under the weight of society. Lars and Jimmy meet when training together in a neo-Nazi group and soon find themselves feeling deeply passionate about one another. The atmosphere of intolerance forces them to keep their relationship under wraps.
SHOWTIMES
Mon, May 31 @ 9:00pm (SIFF Cinema)
Fri, June 4 @ 9:30pm (Uptown Cinemas)
Wed, June 7 @ 4:30pm (Egyptian Theatre)
I Kissed A Vampire
It’s a vampire musical. That’s all you need to know, really. If you like guys who look like Adam Lambert, this is the boat for you.
SHOWTIMES
Sat, June 10 @ 7:00pm (Neptune Theatre)
Mon, June 12 @ 4:30pm (Egyptian Theatre)
The Wildest Dream (IMAX)
Go along with Conrad Anker as he recreates the journey of Geroge Mallory, a man who died upon scaling Mt. Everest in 1924. Using the same equipment and clothing as Mallory, Anker finds just how difficult it really is, and why Mallory departed with the words, “We shall go, and if it is a one-way ticket, so be it.”
SHOWTIMES
Fri, June 11 @ 7:00pm (Pacific Science Center IMAX)
Sat, June 12 @ 1:30pm (Pacific Science Center IMAX)
The Sentimental Engine Slayer
The debut full-length film of The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, The Sentientl Engine Slayer is a grimy look into the life of Barlam (played by Rodriguez-Lopez himself), who seems to be spiraling out control. The film is loaded with bright colors and iconography, and a killer soundtrack one would of course expect.
SHOWTIMES
Thu, June 10 @ 9:30pm (SIFF Cinema)
Fri, June 11 @ 4:00pm (SIFF Cinema)
Micmacs
The newest film by Delicatessen screenwriter and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Micmacs is a surreal dark comedy where a homeless and jobless Bazil finds himself associating with a whole slew of eccentric characters.
SHOWTIMES
Fri, June 11 @ 7:00pm (Uptown Cinemas)
Plug & Pray
A documentary that looks at the creation of artificial intelligence and where the future of it might lead us.
SHOWTIMES
Wed, June 9 @ 9:30pm (Harvard Exit)
Sun, June 13 @ 6:00pm (Harvard Exit)
