For those that don’t know Talk Cinema is a series of films shown on Saturday mornings over at the Landmark Edina Theater. The rub is that when you go to these screenings you don’t know what film you will be watching until the film is onscreen. Afterwords, their is a discussion about the film with either a local critic or some one associated with making the film.

Generally the films tend to be topical or with strong social messages, but that isn’t always the case, and in general they try to select films that won’t be released for at last a month or so to help increase the value of attending. This Saturday, the 21st, the Landmark Edina will be having another screening for Talk Cinema at 10am. Tickets are $18, though cheaper if you buy a full session pass, but only $5 if you have a student ID. Coffee is provided, and bagels and concessions are on sale if you would like those as well. After this Saturday there are only two more screenings left in the series, which won’t resume again until later in the year.

So if you feel up for watching a movie at 10am make sure to try and swing over to the Landmark Edina for Talk Cinema, and if you are a student you really should make it out there to take advantage of such a great. And if you need more of a push here are some of the films that have played at previous Talk Cinema screenings.

Films previewed in Minneapolis during the 2007-08 Season:
Sleuth, The Rocket, Yella, The Kite Runner, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Band’s Visit, And Along Come Tourists, Caramel, Roman de Gare, The Life Before Her Eyes, Mongol

Films previewed in Minneapolis during the 2008-09 Season:
I Loved You So Long, Slumdog Millionaire, Un Conte De Noel, The Reader, Last Chance Harvey, Wendy and Lucy, Two Lovers, Everlasting Moments, The Great Buck Howard

Still not convinced? Well then after the break check out the trailer for the film that will be showing this Saturday!

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The girlfriend and I had brunch at Gigi’s Cafe the other day and I had what one might describe as an epiphany. Gigi’s is a quaint little establishment that caters predominantly to those who are on the wrong side of thirty plus the occasional migrant hipster. Not exactly an eclectic clientèle but one that nonetheless manages to habitually visit on an almost daily basis.

On this morning we lucked out in that we somehow managed to avoid both the breakfast and brunch rushes allowing us to walk straight up to the counter and immediately order. Our server was a surprisingly tall, cute Asian woman whose nationality was difficult to discern. This afforded my girlfriend of launching into her thesis on how impossibly cute Asian children are. But while the girls are forever in bloom the boys ripen rather early and rarely retain their cuteness after puberty.

Now she repeats this lecture nearly every time we encounter a cute Asian child, clearly alluding to the fact that she would love to adopt one. But I also know she is incapable of controlling her urges, and what would start out as her wanting to help a poor abandoned orphan would quickly morph her into the Angelina Jolie of East Asia, picking out one from every country to add to her collection. This in turn would usher in the day that I come home from work to find her children hermetically sealed so that she might eternally preserve their cuteness … what a legal nightmare that will be.

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