by Phil Mann
Does reality bother
you? It’s so
boooorrrring, isn’t it? Quotidian problems, like noisy neighbors
and boats
parked on the street. Wouldn’t it be nice to have something more
meaningful to
worry about, like Planet Earth being threatened by a Norse god
who is
harnessing trans-nuclear power to destroy it. Oh yes, and you’ll
get half a
dozen Superheroes to help you out. Time for THE AVENGERS ….
in the
Tropic’s marvelous 3D.
“Joss Whedon's delicious
ode to the
Marvel universe boasts clarity, conviction and characters who
live and breathe.
There are moments of genuine pathos, genuine humor, genuine
surprise. As much
as the film adheres to the strictures of the standard comic-book
movie, it also
pops with a knowing, loving, Whedon-world jokiness that keeps
everything
barreling along.” (Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle) “Comic-Con nerds will have
multiple orgasms.”
(David Edelstein, New York Magazine)
Back
in
the real world we have POLISSE, a drama
about the Paris
police Child Protection Unit that could be a hand-held camera
documentary. The
cops are deeply, almost unprofessionally invested in their
cases, and when they
interrogate a perp, it’s almost a verbal gang rape. The plot is
loose, more the
story of these cops than of a particular case.
It’s
from
the police procedural genre, but like nothing you’ve seen on TV.
“It’s raw where, say, ‘SVU’ is
slick. It’s
personal where ‘CSI’ is histrionically forensic. It’s funny
where ‘NCIS’ can be
labored…. I might see a better movie in the next few months, but
I’m not sure
how.” (Wesley Morris, Boston Globe)
LOST
BOHEMIA
is a real documentary, the
story of the
artists who occupied studios atop Carnegie Hall for decades,
until they were
ousted in the name of cultural progress. You had a glimpse of it
last year in
the documentary about New York Times photographer Bill
Cunningham, who was one
of the dispossessed. The 165 studios were amazing sunlit
domains, provided by
Andrew Carnegie as part of a grand plan to create an artists'
community along
with his great concert hall, and the inhabitants were equally
amazing. It’s sad
to witness the hopelessly out-of-touch efforts of Carnegie Hall
to relocate them.
I’m reminded, in a small way, of recent actions by the landlord
at the Armory on
White Street pressuring The
Studios of
Key West, which fortunately had a better outcome.
Hold
overs
include fun films for everyone: THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD
HOTEL, plus BERNIE,
HYSTERIA and DARK SHADOWS.
Lots coming on the
Special Event
front.
On Friday, the Key West
Modern Dance
Film Fest, presents A NEW DANCE FOR AMERICA:The
Choreography, Teachings and Legacy of Doris Humphrey.
On Saturday morning at
10:30am the
Kids Saturday Movie Club presents, BABE (1995).
Only a buck for all
kids and accompanying adults.
Sunday brings the
Ballet in Cinema
Series: RAYMONDA, live
from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow at 11:00am, with an
evening encore at
7:00pm. Starring Svetlana Zakharova, “Queen of it all …., more
beautiful than
ever, more serene in command of the dance, more beguiling in
playing her role –
she smiles, and the world is well lost – and more absolutely a
prima ballerina
than any other dancer I know at the moment.” (The Financial
Times)
While the
balletomanes are
otherwise occupied down in The George Digital Theater, the
main screen in the
Carper will be rocking with SATURDAY
NIGHT
FEVER,
Hosted by
Frankie Key West with a Disco Costume Contest, raffles and more.
It’s not just
a movie; it’s an event. That’s Sunday, starting at 8:00pm.
And on Monday, it’s
REVENGE OF THE
NERDS (1984), this week’s Lovable Losers Classic.
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