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June 8, 2006

Weekly Film Agenda: Socialists vs. Zombies Dance-Off

bostonist_film_picks.jpgIn a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies.
In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries.
One moviegoer who can be in three places at once.

Opening Friday 6/9

Clean
Maggie Cheung, still inexplicably less popular than Ziyi Zhang in this country, kicks her drug habit in Paris.
Kendall Square Cinema
Showing through next week, $7-$9.25
IMDB | web site | trailers

Sketches of Frank Gehry
Sidney Pollack's film documents the architect who turned MIT into a heap of crumpled aluminum foil.
Capitol Theatre, Arlington
Friday-Sunday: 7:10, 9:40 pm; Monday-Thursday: 7:10 pm, $6.50
IMDB | web site | trailer

Interkosmos
In an alternate universe's 1970s, East Germany is colonizing the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Of course, this requires retro-socialist dance routines.
Harvard Film Archive
Friday: 9 pm, Tuesday: 7 pm, $8
IMDB | web site | trailer

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford plays Indiana Jones, fending off Nazis with only a whip, a hat, and a degree in archaeology.
Brattle Theatre
Friday-Sunday: 2 pm, 7 pm, $9
IMDB | web site | trailers

Saturday 6/10

The World According to Sesame Street
This documentary explores the craziness of localizing an American children's show for audiences in Bangladesh, Kosovo, and South Africa. (How do you sing "Rubber Ducky" in Afrikaans?) 99 minutes, screening in a two-and-a-half-hour block with some shorts in the Boston International Film Festival.
MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue Boston
10 am, $10
IMDB

Sunday 6/11

Zombie Prom
The latest incident in the unstoppable epidemic of zombie marches, zombie documentaries, and zombie weddings: recently-deceased Jonny is determined to take his very muich alive girlfriend Toffee to their 1950s high school prom. What's this short film got that My Boyfriend's Back (1993, working title Johnny Zombie) doesn't? Choreographed musical numbers.
MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue Boston
9:15 pm (with some other, darker shorts), $10
IMDB | web site | trailer

Monday 6/12

The Children's Hour
Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine have "unnatural feelings" for each other in William Wyler's 1961 film of Lillian Hellman's book.
Boston Public Library, Copley Square
6 pm, free
IMDB | trailer

Home Movies
The Coolidge hosts a screening of the improvisational cartoon sitcom Home Movies, a created for and cancelled by UPN, rescued by the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. A panel of animators, producers and cast members will be present to answer all your questions.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
7 pm, $9
IMDB | fan site | wikipedia

Victoria Daskal contributed to this post.


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