Kati with an i at the library!
Start your True/False experience a day early with a free screening of the great documentary Kati with an i this Wednesday (Feb. 29) at the public library. Director Robert Greene will be on hand to answer all your questions. The film starts at 6:30pm in the Friends Room.
Read More...Our new projector hath come!
It's been about two years since we started Operation: Get Awesome Projector and we're happy to announce that it's finally here! A tremendous thanks to everyone who donated their time and dollars to make this happen. Unfortunately, this is just stage one in the journey to full digital cinemaness (and only in the big theater). […]
Read More...Notes from the attic: Air + la Lune
A new version of Georges Méliès’s 1902 sci-fi classic Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) is out, as of last week. It’s a full restoration (or as close as you’ll ever get) of the hand-colored print found in 1993, with soundtrack by the French duo Air. We just watched it in […]
Read More...March Preview
I know many of you will probably be in a post-True/False cinema-burnout stupor for most of March, but after you shake that off, think of coming out to watch a film at your friendly neighborhood cinema. (We're closed March 5-7 after the fest, by the way.) Here's what we're working on: A Separation This looks […]
Read More...We have a kid-friendly movie!
It's such a rarity that we have a fun G-rated film for kids that I thought I'd make a special announcement. We just opened Studio Ghibli's The Secret World of Arrietty, based on Mary Norton's novel The Borrowers. It's about a young girl Arrietty and the everyday adventure of her life as a two-inch-high borrower […]
Read More...The Secret World of Arrietty opens Fri., Feb 17
Gorgeously hand-drawn and movingly told, The Secret World of Arrietty is another knockout from the great Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli and is based on a screenplay from animation legend Hayao Miyazaki. Will Arnett, Bridgit Mendler, David Henrie, Carol Burnett and Amy Poehler provide voice talent.
Read More...Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts opens Friday, Feb. 17
The five nominees in this category represent some of the most promising filmmakers of tomorrow. Includes: "Pentecost" (dir. Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane), Raju (dir. Max Zahle and Stefan Gieren), "The Shore" (dir. Terry George and Oorlagh George), "Time Freak" (dir. Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey) and "Tuba Atlantic" (dir. Hallvar Witzo).
Read More...Notes from the attic: Scotland, PA
Scotland, PA (2001) is a funny retelling of Macbeth (1611) set in the 70s during those heady days of fast food. Featuring Christopher Walken and Ragtag-favorite Speed Levitch. A welcomed surprise at movie club. Rent it from 9th Street Video. The Three Witches It reminded me in tone of another everything-goes-to-hell murder movie: the underrated […]
Read More...Notes from the attic: Possession
Possession is a 1981 West German film from director/writer Andrzej Zulawski featuring Sam Neill (of Jurassic Park fame) and Isabelle Adjani, who won Best Actress at Cannes for her performance---and rightly so. She is stunning. The most important thing I learned from this film: Do not go off to be some Cold War spy and […]
Read More...Notes from the attic: My Man Godfrey
We just watched this 1936 comedy classic at movie club. A "Park Avenue brat" finds a "forgotten man" in the city dump during a society scavenger hunt and invites him to be her butler. Hilarity ensues. If you rent the copy from 9th Street Video it comes with His Girl Friday (1940 Cary Grant) on […]
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