Arts This Weekend at the Movies
posted by April 13 at 15:50 PM
onFirst, the news.
Insider baseball: Chicago film critics throw a fit over studios’ manipulative screening practices.
Government scolds: The FTC released its report about marketing “torture porn” to young’uns.
Preemptive propaganda: Iran says it’s making a movie and a book out of the British hostage situation. (Via the IFC blog.)
Hearts aflutter: The Joe Wright adaptation of Atonement has a teaser. (Via the IFC blog.)
And a barrage of openings: In On Screen this week, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (gee, thanks, Borat), Perfect Stranger (Halle Berry annoys Megan Seling, and Bruce Willis scares her), Wild Tigers I Have Known (fashion, not film).
Okay, back to On Screen: Black Book (from the director of Showgirls: a Holocaust adventure movie that is “epic, old-fashioned, and genuinely moving”), Pathfinder (there are B-grade Viking epics, and then there are D-grade Viking epics), and the sturdy, sensitive, entirely unpronounceable Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (it’s about Balkan rape babies).
Not yet reviewed, but available for your movie-times searching pleasure: the teenybopper Rear Window takeoff Disturbia, the automobile porn Redline, and the “urban” Usual Suspects ripoff Slow Burn.
In Limited Runs this week, accessible via Get Out: The very, very, actual last weekend of the brilliant locally produced documentary Iraq in Fragments; the loose, gorgeous bumpkin-in-the-big-city tale Entre la mer et l’eau douce; Sean Nelson’s favorite movie EVER, The Third Man; Three Dollar Bill’s very cool ’50s queer cinema series continues with the women’s prison drama Caged; and Pacific Place presents a previously recorded screening of Metropolitan Opera’s Eugene Onegin. And in SIFF Cinema’s lovely Janus series: Roman Polanski’s debut Knife in the Water, the Aussie outback drama Walkabout, Hitchcock’s slightly nutty The Lady Vanishes, and a couple by Kurosawa starting Wednesday and Thursday.
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I highly recommend Walkabout - saw it first in a college Anthropology class, but it's a great film. And you can't go wrong with Kurosawa films, for the most part.
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