Some shuffling of the schedule again as a few moves have their release dtaes pushed to help make room. You should expect this for the remainder of the year at the very least, as their are simply too many strong releases and not enough screens. Don’t be surprised if a few interesting films end up falling off completely as well. Hopefully some of the other Independent theatres in town will snag them.
A couple of documentaries make the booking sheet this week, with We Live in Public being the most well known of the two. But the big addition is clearly the Amelia Earhart bio-pic Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, that will open on October 23rd.
But while that is the marquee addition, the one I am most anticipating is the re-release of the Akira Kurosawa classic, Rashomon, on February 12th of next year. This will be a brand new print, and as Kurosawa is one of my favorite directors, this will be a must see event. Hopefully it will be for you as well.
*** – Denotes recommended viewing
All dates subject to change
09/09 9 Lagoon ***
09/11 The Baader Meinhof Complex Uptown
09/11 Afghan Star Lagoon (NEW DATE)
09/11 The World’s Greatest Dad Lagoon (NEW DATE) ***
09/11 Captain Abu Raed Lagoon/Edina
09/11 Play the Game Edina (tentative)
09/11 The September Issue Edina
09/18 Bright Star Uptown
09/18 The Informant! Lagoon***
09/18 It Might Get Loud Lagoon
09/18 The Beaches of Agnes Edina
09/25 Burning Plain Uptown (tentative)
09/25 Somers Town Lagoon***
09/25 Thirst Lagoon (NEW DATE)***
09/25 Paris Edina
09/25 The Other Man Edina (tentative)
10/02 A Serious Man Uptown***
10/02 Capitalism: A Love Story Lagoon
10/02 No Impact Man Lagoon
10/02 Flame & Citron Edina
10/09 Earth Days Lagoon
10/09 The Boys Are Back Edina
10/09 Amreeka Edina
10/09 Unmistaken Child Lagoon (NEW)
10/16 Still Walking Lagoon
10/16 Coco Before Chanel Edina
10/16 More Than A Game Lagoon
10/16 The Road Edina***
10/23 An Education Uptown
10/23 The Horse Boy Lagoon
10/23 Damned United Lagoon
10/23 Amelia Lagoon (NEW)
10/30 Canyon Lagoon
10/30 New York, I Love You Lagoon
10/30 Skin Edina
11/06 Antichrist Uptown
11/13 Crude Lagoon
11/13 Young Victoria Edina
11/20 We Live in Public Lagoon (NEW)
11/20 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Lagoon (NEW DATE)
11/27 RED CLIFF Uptown
11/27 Oh My God? Lagoon
11/27 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Lagoon
12/11 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe Lagoon
I’ve been looking forward to Shane Acker’s9 for well over a year now, and going into this year it was easily in the top handful of films that I was most anticipating. I probably set my expectations far too high, especially for a first time feature film director who was seemingly working in the delicate realm of children’s horror films. And while 9 didn’t meet my expectations, oh man did it come freaking close.
One thing I was not expecting is that 9 is a very simple, straight forward narrative. Not much in the way of deep themes and moral lessons for the kiddies. Oh sure, they are present and there even is a nice montage that explains how much greedy humans are at fault for the destruction of the world but that is hardly the focus of the film. This is a very simply plotted action film that most assuredly will scare the pants off your kids if you bring them to it. And they aren’t the only ones, as I’m quite sure the crazy cobra spider-thing with the disturbing baby doll head (The Seamstress) will haunt my dreams well into the next decade.
Which reminds me, the character design in the film is freaking amazing. Our protagonists are both strangely adorable and tenderly kick-ass at the same time, making it easy to see why Acker has been so quick to latch on to the term stitchpunk for the film. But that is just the beginning, the villains from The Cat Beast to the weird bat-bird (The Winged Beast) to said dream haunter to the Fabricator are all nightmarishly awesome. Whomever ends up making action figures for this film totally has my money, because I want to own every single character from this film.
Oh yes, for those of you insane enough to bring your kids to this film I give you a word of warning. 9 makes Bambi look like Swedish massage. You’ve got biological warfare, AT-AT’s blowing people to pieces, suicide and you even have something that RIPS YOUR SOUL OUT OF YOUR BODY!!! There is a reason this film is PG-13, because it will scare the shit out of you. Yes you, the adult. So don’t drag your 6 year old to this.
9 opens at the Lagoon Cinema on Wednesday September 9th.
An absolute ton of new additions this week, including Humpday, Spread, The Damned United, New York I Love You, Coco Before Chanel and An Education. But the one I am most excited about, and never thought possible is the inclusion of the animated film 9. I’m incredibly excited to see it, as it is probably my most anticipated film of the year, and it certainly fits my idea of the type of mainstream films I’m more then happy for the Lagoon to show.
*** – Denotes recommended viewing
All dates subject to change
07/15 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Lagoon
07/17 Treeless Mountain Lagoon
07/17 Tetro Edina (tentative)***
07/24 500 Days of Summer Uptown
07/24 Betty Blue: The Director’s Cut Lagoon***
07/24 Seraphine Edina (tentative)
07/31 In the Loop Uptown
07/31 $9.99 Lagoon ***
07/31 Soul Power Lagoon (tentative)
07/31 Shrink Lagoon/Edina
07/31 The Merry Gentlemen Edina
07/31 Humpday Lagoon (NEW)
08/07 The Cove Uptown***
08/07 The End of the Line Lagoon
08/07 The Answer Man Edina
08/14 Not Quite Hollywood Lagoon***
08/14 Adam Edina
08/14 Ponyo Edina ***
08/14 Spread Lagoon (NEW)
08/21 Inglorious Bastards Lagoon***
08/21 Lorna’s Silence Edina
08/28 Cold Souls Uptown ***
08/28 The World’s Greatest Dad Lagoon ***
08/28 Taking Woodstock Lagoon***
08/28 Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Edina
08/29 The Adventures of Robin Hood Edina (One Night Only) ***
08/30 The Bride of Frankenstein Edina (One Night Only) ***
08/30 It Happened One Night Edina (One Night Only) ***
09/04 Thirst Lagoon ***
09/04 Afghan Star Lagoon
09/04 My One and Only Edina
09/09 9 Lagoon (NEW) ***
09/11 The Baader Meinhof Complex Uptown
09/11 Captain Abu Raed Lagoon
09/18 The Beaches of Agnes Edina
09/18 Burning Plain Edina /Lagoon
09/25 Somers Town Lagoon***
09/25 Paris Edina
10/02 Amreeka Edina
10/09 Earth Days Lagoon
10/09 The Damned United Lagoon (NEW)
10/16 Still Walking Lagoon
10/16 New York, I Love You Lagoon (NEW)
10/16 Coco Before Chanel Edina (NEW)
10/23 The Horse Boy Lagoon
10/23 An Education Uptown (NEW)
I’ve been wanting to give people a heads up on the various odd or seemingly interesting films that will be coming out in the future with out having to invest too much time in the process. While I watch as many new releases as anyone, the focus of the site is to find movies already released for people to discover. But there are always movies that might fly under the radar, so One to Watch is a simple series devoted to promoting new films that might end up at the end of the long tail.
I know I mentioned in my last piece about my difficulty in discovering good Polish literature. This isn’t to say that it’s all terrible, but it’s hard to find a Polish work that isn’t handicapped by poor translation, such as Janusz L. Wisniewski’s frustrating Loneliness on the Net (a translation so horrible and littered with numerous grammatical errors that it ended up being the first book in years I didn’t finish), or locked in its own cultural experience to the point of alienating non-Polish readers, such as 9 by Andrzej Stasiuk (still an excellent work of fiction). This is why I’m thrilled when I stumble on to a Polish author that bypasses the aforementioned hurdles, such as Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night, and then I’m practically ecstatic when the book knocks me out; which happily brings me to Marek Krajewski’s phenomenal Death in Breslau. (more…)
Some shuffling of the schedule again as a few moves have their release dtaes pushed to help make room. You should expect this for the remainder of the year at the very least, as their are simply too many strong releases and not enough screens. Don’t be surprised if a few interesting films end up falling off completely as well. Hopefully some of the other Independent theatres in town will snag them.
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