| FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D7 FILMS John Lui Film Correspondent recommends Free Solo (2019, PG13) This National Geographic film from Picks DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE award-winning documentary (M18) film-maker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi 159 minutes/ and world-renowned photographer Film and mountaineer Jimmy Chin is a After an arrest lands police officers stunning, intimate and unflinching Lurasetti (Vince Vaughn, right) and portrait of free solo climber Alex Ridgeman (Mel Gibson, far right) Honnold as he prepares to achieve his a suspension for excessive use of lifelong dream: climbing the face of force, they hatch a plan to rob a drug the world’s most famous rock – the dealer. But their path soon crosses 914m El Capitan in Yosemite National with that of small-time crooks Johns Park – without a rope. (Tory Kittles) and Biscuit (Michael Jai WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden White). Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road Some crime thrillers run on twisty MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Today, plots and snappy language; others on 5pm; Sun, 2pm ADMISSION: $13.50 action and gunplay. Yet others run on (standard), $11.50 (concession) mean-streets realism. You usually INFO: theprojector.sg get to pick one or two. But this is a rare movie that ticks all the boxes. Shoplifters (2018, M18) That ease with genre cinema and The film is about a “family” of the willingness to have fun with it is close-knit pilferers who make ends the hallmark of writer-director meet beneath the sleek, prosperous S. Craig Zahler, who retooled the veneer of Tokyo. From pinching western in Bone Tomahawk (2015) shampoos to swiping fishing rods, and the prison thriller in Brawl In Cell they live a blissful, fun life until a Block 99 (2017). hapless child appears at their doorstep. In Japanese with English and Chinese subtitles. WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Sun, 2.40pm ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg The Glory Hoes Present: Xanadu (1980, PG) BOY ERASED (R21) A struggling artist living in Los 130 minutes/ Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness. In this Jared (Lucas Hedges, left) has been and the result of poor parenting. romantic musical fantasy flick, Olivia sent by his parents to a gay The movie is based on Garrard Newton-John sings and roller-skates. conversion therapy assessment Conley’s 2016 memoir of the same WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden programme in Arkansas. In flashback, name. Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road he is shown to have a girlfriend, but a What this reviewer was not MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Today, traumatic incident in college causes prepared for is how emotionally 9.30pm, activities from 8pm him to confront his feelings of powerful Jared’s story is and how ADMISSION: $30 INFO: theprojector.sg attraction to men, feelings which he fairly it treats everyone, including confesses to his father Marshall those who believe that one can “pray April And The Extraordinary (Russell Crowe) and mother Nancy away the gay”, as some call it. World (2015, PG) (Nicole Kidman, far left). WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden This animated film about April, Marshall, a successful businessman Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road a teenage girl who goes in search of and Baptist preacher, sends him to a MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: From her missing parents, takes place in gay conversion centre. There, tomorrow, various times 1941 France, which is trapped in the therapist Sykes (Joel Edgerton) tells ADMISSION: $13.50 19th century, governed by steam and clients that homosexuality is a choice INFO: theprojector.sg Napolean V, and where scientists vanish mysteriously. WHERE: library@esplanade open stage, 03-01 Esplanade Mall, 8 Raffles Avenue MRT: Esplanade/City Hall WHEN: Wed, 6.30pm ADMISSION: Free A LAND IMAGINED (NC16) INFO: www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary2 95 minutes/ The Guilty (2018, PG13) In this dream-like detective story, a Detective Lok (Peter Yu, right) Alarm dispatcher Asger Holm cop who cannot sleep searches for a retraces Wang’s steps and his eyes answers an emergency call from a man who cannot wake up from a are opened to a twilight world kidnapped woman. When the call is nightmare. In the background, a inhabited only by migrant workers – suddenly disconnected, the search woman from China yearns to be their dormitories, cybercafes and for the woman and her kidnapper anywhere but here, while men from celebrations. begins. With the phone as his only Bangladesh have made a space for The film won the Golden Leopard at tool, Holm enters a race against time themselves that is a home away from the Locarno Film Festival and Best to save the woman. But he soon home. Film at the Asian Feature Film realises he is dealing with a crime far Singaporean film-maker Yeo Siew Competition section of the Singapore bigger than he had first thought. Hua tries to crack the puzzle that is International Film Festival. WHERE: GV Paya Lebar, 03-107 Singapore in this ambitious, mostly WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden SingPost Centre, 10 Eunos Road 8 Mandarin film that grapples with Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Paya Lebar WHEN: Wed, 9pm issues of ethics and identity. MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: From ADMISSION: Singapore Film Society Police are called in when a Chinese tomorrow, various times membership, from $18 a month national, Wang (Liu Xiaoyi), vanishes ADMISSION: $13.50 TEL: 9017-0160 INFO: E-mail from his work site. INFO: theprojector.sg [email protected] Solaris (1972, NC16) Ground control has been receiving PHOTOS: AKANGA FILM/MM2 ENTERTAINMENT, SHAW ORGANISATION, mysterious transmissions from the THE PROJECTOR/FOCUS FEATURES three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. 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The film Free Solo is a stunning, The annual run, in its ninth edition, is station (Exit G, street level) family), as well as more common ones WHERE: Visitor Services Desk at intimate and unflinching portrait of Artmakings By SAMH Creative organised by the Terry Fox Run MRT: Tanjong Pagar WHEN: Sun, 10am such as the Painted Jezebel, Plain Nassim Gate, Singapore Botanic American free solo climber Alex Mindset Hub Singapore Committee and the - noon ADMISSION: Free, register at Nawab and Common Grass Yellow. Gardens, 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Honnold as he takes on the face of Volunteers and clients of SAMH Canadian Association of Singapore, www.nparks.gov.sg INFO: E-mail WHERE: Meet at small garden spot Gardens WHEN: April 6, 9 - 10am the 914m El Capitan in Yosemite (Singapore Association for Mental in collaboration with the Singapore [email protected] Health) Creative Mindset Hub and between Carparks 1 & 2 in Telok ADMISSION: Free INFO: E-mail National Park – without a rope.