theSCOPE SEPTEMBER 2011 THE nD FESTIVAL is an annual fundraiser for the Belcourt Theatre that celebrates the convergence of independent film, fashion and music in Nashville. Launched in 2010, The Belcourt Theatre mission is to preserve The Belcourt Theatre, a singular entity that sets Nashville apart from every the nD Festival offers a diverse range of stylish events that take place throughout other city by reclaiming historic space to revitalize a cultural anchor for the diverse Nashville community, providing a MONTHLY NEWSLETTER VOL XII, ISSUE 9 Nashville from boutique crawls to parties and more—over a five-day period. The Festival variety of select films and performing arts to stimulate dialogue and delight in a vibrant inviting atmosphere, and executing culminates with a fashion show and party at the Belcourt Theatre, featuring looks by a sound business plan and a comprehensive fundraising strategy to ensure the long-term success of the theatre. three outstanding designers merged with music and short films created exclusively for the nD Festival. Funds raised during the festival support the community engagement and education programs of the Belcourt Theatre. BELCOURT EDUCATIONAL EVENTS Mysteries The proceeds from nD Festival 2011 will fund these Educational programs in addition to some new efforts with elementary, DAY OPENING NIGHT PARTY | Wednesday, September 28 high school, collegiate students, as well as adults. We have hired Allison Inman to lead these efforts for the theatre, so 1 Hosted by Elan Hair & Skin | 6pm - 8pm of Location: Elan Hair & Skin, 3756 Hillsboro Road look for many great things to come! Below is a summary of some of our current educational offerings: Bubbles, wine, beer and snacks along with fall hair styles or feather extensions for attendees. CINEMATIC CONVERSATIONS Free Valet parking. We know how much Belcourt audiences value conversation about the films they’ve just seen or are about to see, but we also Lisbon $10 for Belcourt members / $15 for non-members / FREE for patron pass holders know our lobby is not terribly conducive for discussion. To address that circumstance we've launched CINEMATIC CONVER- SEPTEMBER 13-15 SATIONS, a monthly “book-club” model event that is all about gathering with a group of folks to keep the conversation going. DAY EAST NASHVILLE CRAWL | Thursday, September 29 No expertise in film is required, just a love of watching movies. Once screening times are set we will announce the Cinematic 2 5pm - 8pm Location: East Nashville, check in at Fanny's House of Music (1101 Holly Street) for maps Conversations screening. Immediately following that screening we will head to an area restaurant for conversation. A FILM BY A variety of neighborhood-wide events including a boutique crawl, a free film in the backyard at Fanny’s House of Music September’s Cinematic Conversations features GRAPES OF WRATH. Sunday, September 11, Time and Place to at sunset (approx. 7:30p.m.), and restaurant specials that will benefit The Belcourt Theatre. Public events are Free! be announced on Monday, September 5. RAÚL RUIZ JULY 25, 1941 - AUGUST 19, 2011 9pm Location: 5-Spot, 1006 Forrest Avenue GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT Featuring WARTHOG, Nashville’s only Ramones cover band. Percentage of the evening proceeds will be given to Girls’ Night Out is a monthly-ish program (based around appropriate films) started to encourage women to gather to the Belcourt Theatre. Cover charge will apply. Free for patron pass holders share a social and enriching evening. It is a relaxed atmosphere with snacks, beverages and a quick overview of the Belcourt and upcoming offerings. It’s a great way to meet new people or have a wonderful night out with friends. $20 for DAY A PARTY for nD PATRONS | Friday, September 30 Belcourt members/$25 for non-members (includes movie ticket, beverage and snack. Extra $5 day of fee applies.) Sponsored by Richard Courtney, Realtor Tuesday, September 6 - 5:30p at Cabana then to the theatre for the evening showing of THE FUTURE 3 6pm - 8pm Location: Ultra Lounge at the ICON, 600 12th Avenue South October - In lieu of a Girls’ Night Out for October, plan to join us Mimosas, Marys & a Movie with L’AMOUR FOU on Full Bar, heavy hors d’oeuvres, indie jewelry showcase and Limited Edition Imogene + Willie Patron Bag pick up. Saturday, October 1. A beautiful story of fashion, art and love. Valet Parking Available. Exclusively for nD Festival Patrons & Sponsors FLiCX (Faculty Led Interactive Cinematic Explorations) nD Festival 5-day Patron Pass includes ALL events | $150 for Belcourt members/$175 for non-members The Vanderbilt Film Studies Program and the Office of the Dean of Students, in partnership with the Belcourt Theatre, (limited quantity available) created an initiative to promote faculty-student conversations centered on foreign, independent, and classic films: FLiCX, or Faculty-Led interactive Cinematic eXplorations. FLiCX discussions are free (with your movie ticket) and open to the DAY MIMOSAS, MARYS & a MOVIE | Saturday, October 1 public, and are a fantastic way to learn more about film and to have enlightening discussions with educators who are 11am Brunch by Pancake Pantry and Provence | 12 noon L’AMOUR FOU versed in various topics relevant to the film. This program is expanding the inclusion of faculty from various institutions 4 Location: The Belcourt Theatre Sponsored by Studio 8 Design throughout Middle Tennessee. When there is a FLiCX discussions are announced in our weekly eNewsletter and on our website in conjunction with the associated film. L’AMOUR FOU (ONE SHOWING ONLY!) Dir. Pierre Thoretton / France / 2010 / 98 min / 35mm ARTIST TALKBACKS Yves Saint Laurent left a fashion legacy. He also left behind an extraordinary collection of art. Saint The Belcourt is known nationwide as a leader in the non-profit independent art house community. As such, we are very Laurent’s partner in business and life, Pierre Bergé, made the choice to auction off the collection after fortunate to be able to have live or Skype discussions with directors, producers, screenwriters and actors. We are pleased Saint Laurent’s death in 2008. It was considered “the auction of the century.” In L’AMOUR FOU, to bring you these opportunities and announce them in our eNewsletter, via Facebook & Twitter, on our website and in Bergé talks about their relationship in both respects—from meeting Saint Laurent after his dismissal our monthly calendar when scheduling allows. from Dior to starting up their fashion house and, of course, the art that they amassed. The collection started in the 1950s and included works ranging from Picasso and Matisse to Egyptian sculptures. $20 for Belcourt members / $25 for non-members / Free for patron pass holders CALENDAR - SEPTEMBER 2011 *This is also GIRLS’ “DAY” OUT for October S M T W T F S DAY nD FASHION SHOW | Sunday, October 2 | Location: The Belcourt Theatre Senna The Future The Future MM: Midnight Movies 1 2 3 Terri MM: Near Dark WC: Two-Lane 5 5pm - 6pm Patron & Sponsor Early Arrival SS: Second Saturday Outdoor Cinema Blacktop Hillsboro Village 6pm - 7:30pm Cocktails, supper & silent auction WC: Weekend Classics Art Walk MM: Near Dark TICKET PRICES 7:30pm - 8:30pm FASHION & FILM SHOW Sponsored by Decker Wealth Management More Info Available at: Film Tickets are available in advance online at www.belcourt.org or at the Belcourt box office Designer Designer Designer WWW.BELCOURT.ORG the day of the movie, unless otherwise noted. Concerts and other events are general admission unless otherwise noted. Steven Alan Bodkin Jamie & the Jones The Future 4 The Future 5 The Future 6 The Future 7 The Future 8 Attack the Block 9 Attack the Block10 www.stevenalan.com www.bodkin.us jamieandthejones.blogspot.com WC: Two-Lane WC: Two-Lane GIRLS NIGHT OUT Bruce Cockburn The Weepies Project Nim Project Nim Blacktop Blacktop presented by presented by MATINEE PRICING (before 6pm) Filmmaker Filmmaker Filmmaker National Shows 2 TMG/AEG Live - The Future The Future Adult: $7.25 • Student/Military (w / ID): $6.75 • Child: $7.25 • Senior (65+): $6.25 SOLD OUT WC: Grapes of Wrath David McClister James Clauer Kristin Barlowe SS: Psycho EVENING PRICING (after 6pm) 8:30pm - 10pm Desserts & coffee Adult: $8.75 • Student/Military (w / ID): $7.25 • Child: $7.25 • Senior (65+): $6.25 Trunk Show including designer looks from the runway Attack the Block 11 Attack the Block12 Attack the Block13 Attack the Block14 Attack the Block 15 The Interrupters16 The Interrupters 17 Project Nim Project Nim Mysteries of Lisbon Mysteries of Lisbon Mysteries of Lisbon Bellflower Bellflower BELCOURT MEMBERS: as always $5.75 Free Valet Parking $75 for Belcourt Members / $85 for non-members / Free for patron pass holders The Future The Future The Future The Future The Future Attack the Block Attack the Block (excludes some special events, though always discounted) $20 for Belcourt members / $25 for non-members for Fashion & Film show only. Based on availability after 9/15. WC: Grapes of Wrath Trailer Park - FREE MM: Point Break WC: The Soft Skin CINEMATIC Membership nD Festival Sponsors: CONVERSATIONS Appreciation event MM: Point Break SEE ALL THE PERKS OF MEMBERSHIP AT WWW.BELCOURT.ORG The Movieline: 615-383-9140 Administrative Office: 615-846-3150 The Interrupters 18 The Interrupters19 The Interrupters20 The Interrupters 21 The Interrupters22 Circumstance 23 Circumstance 24 Bellflower Bellflower Bellflower Bellflower Bellflower TBA TBA JOHN BAEDER • BRADLEY ARANT BOULT & CUMMINGS • DR&A • MAC | AMAX • MINI OF NASHVILLE • STUDIO 8 DESIGN • VILLAGE REAL ESTATE SERVICES Attack the Block Attack the Block Pearl Jam 20 Attack the Block Attack the Block WC: Stalker WOODMONT INVESTMENT COUNSEL • NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER • GRIFFIN TECHNOLOGIES • TEXTILE FABRICS WC: The Soft Skin Attack the Block SPECIAL THANKS Food & Beverage Sponsors:

Circumstance 25 Circumstance 26 Circumstance 27 Circumstance 28 Circumstance 29 The Man Who 30 L’Amour Fou 1 The Man Who TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA Fell to Earth TBA Fell to Earth WC: Stalker nD Festival - nD Festival - TBA Opening Night East Nashville MM: Tucker and MM: Tucker and Media Sponsors: @ Elan Crawl Dale vs Evil Dale vs Evil nD Festival - nD Festival - Patrons’ Party Mimosas, Mary’s & www.belcourt.org @ ICON a Movie FROM THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR FIRST RUN FILMS REPERTORY FILMS Weekend Classics Sponsored by September & October

THE GRAPES OF WRATH Sat-Sun, Sept 10-11 DEAR FRIENDS THE FUTURE Opens Friday, September 2, two week run BELLFLOWER Opens Friday, September 16 Dir. John Ford / USA / 1940 / 128min / 35mm At the Belcourt we love the conversation around film many times as much as we love (or, sometimes, loath) the film Dir. Miranda July / USA / 2011 / 91min / NR / 35mm Dir. Evan Glodell / USA / 2011 / R / 105min / 35mm The immortal John Steinbeck novel hit the big screen hard, bringing to life The Great Depression In this exhilarating, funny, and wildly inventive second feature from Miranda July (ME & YOU & Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building MAD MAX-inspired that inspired the conversation. You know from talking with any one of our front-of-house staffers that we have an in a manner more than visceral enough for a nation just coming out of its depths. As Tom Joad, incredibly knowledgeable group of film lovers working at this theatre, and we certainly have theaters filled with passion- EVERYONE WE KNOW), a thirty-something couple realize that in one month their lives will change flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. But when Woodrow meets Henry Fonda is electrifying. And as for the current economic climate, there are countless reasons ate film viewers every day. It is a part of the personality of the Belcourt to support that conversation in a number of radically when they pick up a stray cat (who incidentally narrates the film). Wanting to take a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group to see this devastating and timeless film. Presented in a new 35mm print. ways, so in this month’s newsletter we detail a few of our programs that are all about the conversation. Look inside for advantage of their fleeting freedom, they quit their jobs, disconnect their Internet, and pursue new of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more interests - all of which literally alter the course of time and space and test their faith in each other devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies. explanations of FLiCX, Cinematic Conversations, Girls’ Night Out & Artist Talkback programs, watch our website, CINEMATIC CONVERSATIONS Join us for Cinematic Conversations on Sunday, September 11 after the and themselves. weekly eNewsletter, Facebook page and Twitter feed for breaking announcements and come join the conversation. evening screening of this film at Fido, time TBD. Watch for further information in our weekly eNewsletter or on our Evan Glodell’s explosive debut feature is a thing of toxic beauty. - Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE website. If you’d like a little homework, please watch another John Ford/Henry Fonda film. Take care, The fearless creative energy [Miranda July] displays and her unflinching honesty about not just the outer but also the inner world of romantic despair, make STEPHANIE SILVERMAN THE FUTURE a unique and rewarding experience. – Ray Greene, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE PEARL JAM TWENTY Tuesday, September 20 - TWO SCREENINGS ONLY! THE SOFT SKIN Sat-Sun, Sept 17-18 Managing Director Dir. Cameron Crowe / USA / 2011 / 120min / HD Dir. François Truffaut / France / 1964 / 119min / 35mm GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT Join us on Tuesday, September 6 at 5:30p at Cabana as we all chat about what we might do a) if PEARL JAM TWENTY chronicles the years leading up to the band’s formation, the chaos that The man who has everything but risks it all on affair that thrills specifically because of its transitory our lives were constantly narrated by a cat and b) if we were really challenged to do something big in 30-day block of ensued soon-after their rise to megastardom, their step back from center stage, and the creation nature...It’s a tale that resonates even today, and in the hands of Truffaut, it is an exquisite and moody GALLERY AT theBELCOURT time. $20 for Belcourt members/$25 for non-members, $25/$30 day of. of a trusted circle that would surround them–giving way to a work culture that would sustain them. symphony of tension and betrayal. The exceptional photography is by longtime Godard collaborator Raoul Told in big themes and bold colors with blistering sound, the film is carved from over 1,200 hours Coutard. Presented in a restored 35mm print. In French and some Portuguese with English subtitles. BRYCE McCLOUD | 9/3/11 – 10/01/11 of rarely and never-before seen footage spanning the band’s career. PEARL JAM TWENTY is the definitive portrait of Pearl Jam: part concert film, part intimate insider-hang, part testimonial to the STALKER Sat-Sun, Sept 24-25 Isle of Printing’s proud proprietor and head artisan is made out of tiny blocks of lead. ATTACK THE BLOCK Opens Friday, September 9 Bryce picked up his love for printing and much of his treasured letterpress equipment power of music and uncompromising artists. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky / Russia/West Germany / 1979 / 163min / 35mm Dir. Joe Cornish / USA / 2011 / 87min / R / 35mm Spiritual Science Fiction at its most exacting and exceptional, STALKER is the tale of The Zone, a from his very astute and knowledgeable uncle, Roger Frith, whom Bryce hopes to do From the producers of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD comes mysterious space where things are not as they seem. To support his family, the Stalker leads proud with his own work. Bryce has been working hard at IoP since 1997. ATTACK THE BLOCK, a fast funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against CIRCUMSTANCE strangers through The Zone, seeking to unlock its mysteries and answer questions thought Artist Reception - Sunday, September 4, 5-6:30p Opens Friday, September 23 an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a London housing estate into a sci-fi playground, a Dir. Maryam Keshavarz / France/USA/Iran / 2011 / R / 107min / 35mm unanswerable. A ritual of a film, this secret rite of knowledge and determination; to see STALKER tower block into a fortress under siege, and teenage street kids into heroes. It’s inner city versus is to undertake a pilgrimage of one’s own into the unknown. In Russian with English subtitles. HILLSBORO VILLAGE ART WALK Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, filled with underground outer space. parties, sex, drugs and defiance, CIRCUMSTANCE is the story of two vivacious young girls–wealthy Thursday, September 1, 5:30 - 7:00p, featuring the work of Izel Vargas THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH One Full Week! Fri-Thu, Sept 30 – Oct 6 All the merchants of Hillsboro Village celebrate the first Thursday of every month with the Art Walk. Atafeh and orphaned Shireen–discovering their burgeoning sexuality and, like 16 year-old girls It’s a doozy, offering tight and imaginative camerawork, electric thrills, and a sharp, twisty script that plays like a social satire. - Bruce Diones, NEW YORKER anywhere, struggling with their desires and the boundaries placed upon them by the world they Dir. Nicolas Roeg / UK / 1976 / 139min / 35mm We all know that film and cinema are amazing works of art. As such, the Belcourt Theatre is the An alien (David Bowie) enters the business world to try and save his own planet. But the best of were born into. Winner of this year’s Sundance Audience Award, CIRCUMSTANCE is Maryam SHOP OF THE MONTH for September, and we will be having a drawing for a great Belcourt basket. intentions, confronted by greed, drugs, and even love, can fall away. Roeg makes some of Be sure to stop by and register to win. Keshavarz’s directorial debut and stars a full cast of talented newcomers. PROJECT NIM Fri-Mon, September 9-12 cinema’s finest mindmelters, and you’ll find here a lonely and perceptive look at the way informa- tion acquisition works. With a stunning supporting turn from Rip Torn and all the 70s alienation Dir. James Marsh / UK/USA / 2011 / 93min / PG-13 / 35mm Stunning! An amazingly accomplished and complex first feature from a filmmaker with something to say the the talent to say it. you could hope for. Presented in a new 35mm print. LAST ONE From the Oscar-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee - James Greenberg, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER OF THE YEAR! who, in the 1970s, became the focus of a landmark experiment that aimed to prove an ape–if

Second Saturday Outdoor Cinema raised and nurtured like a human child–could learn to communicate using sign language. LE RAYON VERT (SUMMER) Sat-Mon, Oct 8-10 PSYCHO - Saturday, September 10 - Sunset 7:02pm GAINESBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE Opens late September Dir. Eric Rohmer / France / 1986 / 98min / 35mm Dir. Alfred Hitchcock / USA / 1960 / NR / 109min / 16mm Combining the testimony of all the key participants, newly discovered archival film, and dramatic Dir. Joann Sfar / France / 2011 / R / 130min / 35mm Marie Rivière is simply unforgettable in this portrait of the anxieties that come from travel, We’ve managed to squeeze a Hitchcock in just about every Outdoor Cinema season in the last imagery, PROJECT NIM tells the picturesque story of one chimpanzee’s extraordinary journey Renowned comic book artist-turned-filmmaker Joann Sfar brings us GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC loneliness, and love (or the lack of it). Rohmer was at his best with mapping the interiors of the 7 years or so, and we’ve saved the closing slot for the master’s most legendary shocker. When through human society and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way. LIFE, a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and mind and soul, and in this remarkable movie he got into places that few would dare go. Presented larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) goes on the lam with a wad of cash and Filmmaker James Marsh returns with an unflinching, unsentimental biography of an animal we in a new 35mm print. In French with English subtitles. infamous Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino). Born Lucien Ginsburg to hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the Bates Motel, where twitchy manager and tried to make human. What we learn about Nim’s true nature–and indeed our own–is comic, Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, taxidermist Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cares for his housebound mother. The place revealing, and profoundly unsettling. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA Sun, Oct 9 at 7pm to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and finally pop superstar. Along the way he seems quirky but fine…until Marion takes a shower. With live score performed by the Alloy Orchestra romances many of the era’s most beautiful women, including Juliette Greco (Anna Mouglalis), What makes this film especially engrossing is that what happened between that chimp and the humans with whom he spent his life in intimate contact turns $20 ($15 Belcourt Members) out to be only half the story that Marsh, who directed the electrifying MAN ON WIRE, has to tell. - Kenneth Turan, LA TIMES Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta) and Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon). Employing a witty surrealistic style Dir. Dziga Vertov / Russia / 1929 / 68min / 35mm and a soundtrack that includes many of the musician’s greatest hits, GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC Russian lives unfold in this landmark of film history, an immortal whirl through the ways in which TRAILER PARK LIFE is a quintessential time capsule to ’60s Paris. MEMBERSHIP APPRECIATION EVENT - Monday, September 12, 5:30-6:30 pm a story can be told visually. With a live score performed by the Alloy Orchestra, you’ve never seen MYSTERIES OF LISBON Vertov’s influential and groundbreaking film quite like this before. WE LOVE OUR MEMBERS! Last month, we hosted a Member Appreciation Cookout courtesy of The Dog Tue-Thu, September 13-15 Both evocative and faithful in its depiction of the famed French singer’s lascivious life, Gainsbourg (vie heroique) offers up a feast of memorable chansons of Nashville and Yazoo Brewery. This month, we invite our members back for TRAILER PARK, our annual Dir. Raúl Rui / 2011 / Portugal / NR / 257min plus 10min intermission / HD Raúl Ruiz’s masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel (by and an almost endless parade of drop-dead-gorgeous muses. – Jordan Mintzer Alloy has brought fresh air to a world thought left to nostalgics. They’ve done more than anyone lately to bring an audience to silent films. They eventevent wherewhere wewe watchwatch greatgreat trailerstrailers fromfrom thethe year,year, asas wellwell asas favoritesfavorites selectedselected byby thethe staff.staff. FreeFree foodfood andand Camilo Castelo Branco) evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and give voice to the soul of their machines, and by doing that, they’ve given voice to no less than the sound of cinema beverage provided. Members, look for an email soon with RSVP information. - Paolo Cherchi Usai - co director of Pordenone Silent Film Festival Charles Dickens. In this Lisbon of intrigue and hidden identities, we encounter a series of characters all somewhat linked to the destiny of Pedro da Silva, an orphan in a boarding MIDNIGHT MOVIES OF THE 70s AND 80s school. Father Dinis, a descendent of the aristocratic libertines, later becomes a hero who WORLD ON A WIRE Fri-Sun, Oct 14-16 ROAD MOVIES THRU SEPT 5 defends justice; a countess maddened by her jealousy and set on vengeance and a prosper- NEAR DARK Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder / West Germany / 1973 / 212min / 35mm One of the most striking Science Fiction films of the 70s (and oh, the outfits...), this magnum opus The great American road movies of the 70s and 80s series is coming to a close with the end of summer. ous businessman who mysteriously made his fortune as a bloodthirsty pirate. These and Dir. by Kathryn Bigelow / USA / 1987 / 94min / R / 35mm - Fri-Sat, Sept 2-3 at Midnight was made for West German television and unavailable to most of the world in the intervening decades. It’s been a great ride...don’t miss these last two films! many more characters all cross in a story set in the 19th century while searching for the true See ROAD MOVIES Section for description. But now, Fassbinder’s vision of battling layers of existence comes to glorious life. The invention of an identity of our main character. NEAR DARK Fri-Sat, September 2-3 (MIDNIGHT) POINT BREAK electronic reality is meant to revolutionize the business world, but it does so much more–because Dir. by Kathryn Bigelow / USA / 1987 / 94min / R / 35mm Dir. Kathryn Bigelow / Japan/USA / 1991 / 120min / R / 35mm - Fri-Sat, Sept 16-17 at Midnight once you’ve broken down the wall between two realities, who’s to say just how far things can go? Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) went out looking for a little action, and what he found was the Once you start to ride with the rapturous, gorgeous, digressive symphony of images and words and music in this film it’s completely absorbing and unlike Remade (poorly) as The Thirteenth Floor in 1999, WORLD ON A WIRE will fracture your identity. anything you’ve ever seen. - Andrew O’Hehir, SALON.COM Here, in the hands of Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, is where Keanu Reeves ethereal Mae (Jenny Wright). There was something special about her, and her ragtag family of found himself bound for action stardom. Assigned to infiltrate a gang of Zen surfer bank robbers 2X ANTONIONI miscreants (including much of the supporting cast of Aliens and the little brother from River’s who dress like Presidents, Johnny Utah (Reeves) finds himself getting in a bit too deep. One of RED DESERT Fri-Sun, Oct 21-23 Edge). The night, they say, has its price, and Caleb Colton finds himself in the midst of a the sleeper action smashes of the 90s, and a loving tribute to the late, great Patrick Swayze. With THE INTERRUPTERS Fri-Thu, September 16-22 Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni / Italy / 1964 / 120min / 35mm Gary Busey, Lori Petty, and a rather visceral encounter with a lawnmower. blood-fuelled crime spree that takes Bonnie & Clyde and tears its throat out. Directed by Dir. Steve James / USA / 2011 / NR / 125min / HD One of the most acclaimed portraits of alienation and unease ever filmed, with the radiant Monica Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER, STRANGE DAYS) From producer/director Steve James (HOOP DREAMS) and author-turned-producer Alex Kotlow- TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL Vitti in the midst of a crisis of physical illness and spiritual emptiness. Antonioni’s first color film is and with a glacial and gorgeous Tangerine Dream score. itz, THE INTERRUPTERS tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who a distressing vision of the links between oneself and one’s surroundings. Presented in a new Dir. Eli Craig / Canada / 2010 / 89min / Unrated / 35mm - Fri-Sat, Sept 30-Oct 1 at Midnight try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. Shot over the 35mm print. In Italian with English subtitles. All genial rednecks Tucker and Dale want to do is have some beers, do some fishing, and fix up TWO-LANE BLACKTOP Sat-Mon, September 3-5 course of a year, it captures a period when Chicago became a national symbol for the violence in their cabin in the woods. But along come a group of overly-entitled college students with chips on Dir. Monte Hellman / USA / 1971 / 102min / R / 35mm our cities. During that period, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the LE AMICHE Sat, Oct 22 and Mon, Oct 24 their shoulders, and before you know it, we’ve got a classic ‘spam in a cabin’ picture with people James Taylor and Dennis Wilson star, with series mainstay Warren Oates, as drivers out of brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni / Italy / 1955 / 104min / 35mm dying left and right. An insightful film about classism and romantic uncertainty that also isn’t afraid Getting literary with this adaptation of Cesare Pavese’s novel, Antonioni delves into the lives of sync with the land around them. All that matters is to keep moving, racing around the nation, videotape. The film’s main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should to deliver on the gore front, Tucker & Dale make horror and comedy play nice together. women who are following their own paths; business owners and entrepreneuses dealing with the finding something like love as long as the engine runs. An existential and moody glance into be similar: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. travails of life and love in a manner that binds them closer even as it sometimes threatens to tear the psyche of motion as well as a perceptive travelogue of the shifting faces of the U.S. Coming in October to Midnight Movies: them apart. Brutal and unsparing, but also full of a great deal of heart and big emotions, LE Oct 14-15 THE MONSTER SQUAD AMICHE is unlike any other film in Antonioni’s body of work. Presented in a new 35mm print. In countryside, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP is an enduring classic. Also with exceptional Patiently, brilliantly, Steve James looks closely at our society. He begins documentaries with no easy end in sight, and persists… Now, in THE INTERRUPTERS, performances from Laurie Bird and Harry Dean Stanton. he has made his most important film. - Roger Ebert, Chicago SUN-TIMES Oct 28-29 ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW w/ cast Little Morals Italian with English subtitles.