The world lost many entertainers this year, but one of the most tragic stories came out of the indie-film world when actress .
The Brattle is screening one of Shelly's collaborations with director Hal Hartley Wednesday, January 3. The Unbelievable Truth, from 1989, follows an unconventional romance.
A young woman in Long Island (Shelly) falls for an older ex-con, but no one can figure out exactly how terrible his crimes were. Roger Ebert compares the movie favorably to Douglas Sirk's melodramas.
The Unbelievable Truth will screen at 5:30, 7:30, and 9:30 at the Brattle.
Image of Adrienne Shelly from Gothamist.
will be screening four of the Marx Brothers classics all day New Year's Day.
A Marx Brothers marathon isn't the same as a fistful of painkillers, an ice pack, or a Bloody Mary, but some laughs might make for the best hangover cure of all. (Then again, a Thin Man marathon might be more appropriate.)
However, if you have an absolutely screaming booze-induced headache or if you can only take so much Groucho in one sitting, try to make the screening of Duck Soup.
The ranked it one of the top-five funniest movies of all time. (Those five funniest movies depend on your tastes, but Duck Soup keeps good company with legendary comedies like Annie Hall and Dr. Strangelove.
) And maybe you can answer the movie's question "What is it that has four pairs of pants, lives in Philadelphia, and it never rains but it pours?"
Image of Duck Soup from Amazon.
If you missed Inland Empire because you were too busy, don't worry.
has given you a little Christmas gift by adding more shows after the original run, which was supposed to end yesterday.
Now, the Brattle will run at 1:00 pm next Monday through Friday. This exercise in stream-of-consciousness filmmaking, which sounds like Mulholland Drive times 12 plus Laura Dern plus rabbits, may be the perfect antidote to corny holiday specials and the yearly Christmas Story marathon.
Critical reviews have been but the responses reflect that people either get David Lynch or they don't. One thing's for sure - Laura Dern outdoes herself as an actress who loses herself in several roles.
You can catch the trailer above, and check out Grace Zabriskie, who appears in the beginning.
She played Laura Palmer's nutty mom in Twin Peaks, and she's upped the weirdness factor even more to prove she's a true David Lynch All-Star. Her wild eyes express the David Lynch aesthetic, in which the whole world is a twisted fairy tale.
Trailer of Inland Empire from iFilm.
Based on the musical television episode and now a hallowed , the Buffy Sing-A-Long was born in Brookline, and its doula was former Coolidge Corner Theatre program director Clinton McClung, who's back to host this event at his old haunt. You'll be supplied with lyrics, a goodie bag full of props, and the freedom to yell at the people on screen.
Coolidge Corner Theatre | midnight, $9
Champion whistler will be present at the MFA for this award-winning documentary on the history, personalities, and harrowing competition of the international whistling scene.
Museum of Fine Arts | Noon, $7 (also Saturday 11/19 at 10:30 am)
Barbara Kopple Cecilia Peck document the Dixie Chick's fall from country-radio grace in the wake of singer Natalie Maine's comment that "We're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas." Boycotts, death threats, and three years later, it's probably a moot point that George W. Bush was born in New Haven and went to in Andover.
Mozart's fantastically Masonic opera, transformed by Ingmar Bergman, with a live pre-film performance by of the Longy School of Music (and of ).
Coolidge Corner Theatre | 11 am, $9 (free with student ID)
Roman Polanski's debut begins with a couple picking up a hitchhiker, and ends in psychological and physical violence. Okay, so nobody sings in this movie, but it's the namesake of this Bostonist's .
Brattle Theatre | 5 10 pm, $9
Influential-but-not-quite-famous Boston band will be on hand for the local premiere of a documentary about their rise to non-fame in the 80s and the reunion that began in 2002.
Coolidge Corner Theatre | 7 pm, $7.50 |
If the phrase "authoritative Oasis documentary" excites you, for the free preview screening.
Kendall Square Cinema | 7 pm, free |
Pro: Your mom knows the words to this one. Con: Fewer magical lesbians.
Regent Theatre (7 Medford St.
, Arlington) | $10-$15, see for showtimes through Sunday 11/26
Marilyn Monroe and non-blonde Jane Russell sing their way across the Atlantic in this charming dollop of fluff based on a Broadway musical based on a novel.
Brattle Theatre | 1, 5:15 9:30, $9 |
Boston joins in the celebration of late Warhol muse and Pop Art Poster Girl Edie Sedgwick.
Tonight, the MFA will screen Sedgwick's final movie, Ciao! Manhattan, which was released shortly after her death in 1971.
The Sedgwick tribute is timed to complement the release of Edie: Girl on Fire by David Weisman, who also directed Ciao!
Manhattan, and Melissa Painter. It's probably a good idea to see Sedgwick on screen and read about her as she was before Factory Girl, the Sedgwick biopic starring British starlet/fashionista Sienna Miller, hits theaters.
In case you aren't familiar with Edie Sedgwick, she helped put the "pop" in "Pop Art.
" She didn't sing, she didn't dance, and, depending on how you view Warhol's film catalog and Ciao! Manhattan, she didn't act either. But, on screen and in photographs, she was absolutely luminous.
It wouldn't be stretching it to say that her face helped launch the boats of '60s cultural excess. Her backstory as a blueblood rebelling against her family further added to the mystique, but she didn't make her wealth the core of her public presentation, unlike certain other "celebutantes" of today.
When Sedgwick overdosed, the 60s were ending in a nasty hangover, for her and everyone else.
She died asleep in Santa Barbara, after documentary filmmakers caught her one last time, sitting in an audience during a scene for the series that gave birth to all reality television - PBS' An American Family. The timing of her exit was oddly fitting, in that her death marked the transition from what was Pop Art to Pop Culture.
Ciao!
Manhattan will be screened at Remis Auditorium at the MFA tonight at 8:30 pm, and David Weisman and Melissa Painter will be signing the newly released at the MFA bookshop.
Hot on the heels of his feature film debut in (Bostonist's most enthusiastic ), megapreacher faces allegations of methamphetamine use and indiscretions with a male prostitute.
Haggard was (until last night) president of the National Association of Evangelicals and senior pastor of in Colorado Springs, where you can rent a "prayer closet" for $25 per night and apparently give new meaning to the phrase for . At the top of this week's film agenda is a documentary that makes us glad to live in a place where dudes can just straight-up marry each other and share the burden of :
Five days before the Constitutional Convention reconvenes to decide the fate of the latest to undo the Massachusetts Supreme Court's gay marriage decision, Emerson alumna Stephanie Higgins' "scrapbook narrative" screens with the director, executive producer, and relevant clergy present.
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