The fourth annual Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) Awards and Screening ceremony is scheduled for tonight at 7 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre.
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It's the 25th Anniversary of Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) and the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge is celebrating in style with four showings of this masterpiececlassic memorable film. A man, his bike, his ill-fitting suit, and, well, his friend. Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 p.m., $7.95, $9.95.
Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director responsible for such masterpieces as Starship Troopers, Total Recall, and, er, Hollow Man, is also apparently a Christologist. The director's films are known for their iconoclasm, ultraviolence, and warped sexual themes and so, apparently, are his theories about Jesus!
Last Friday, we had the pleasure of seeing El Perro del Mar and Taken by Trees at the Brattle Theatre. Part of the excellent World Music/CRASHarts series, which continues tonight with Omara Portuondo, the show demonstrated the remarkable talents of two different but talented musicians.
Do you love the Brattle? Do you love it more now that it sells beer? Well, if you enjoy the Brattle's screenings of contemporary and classic content, you oughta pony up for the pleasure. If the theatre reaches its goal of raising $10,000 by midnight tonight (okay, 11:59:59 tonight), a $10,000 matching donation will be provided as well. So donate soon, watch films often, and enjoy having access to a venue that screens everything from the Marx Brothers to anti-commie fearmongering.
As we warned yesterday, the somewhat surly singer-songwriter (sorry for the alliteration) Bill Callahan doesn't take kindly to requests. There would be no "Dress Sexy at My Funeral" last night at the Brattle, despite repeated shouts for it. (We like the song, but were mostly disappointed that Callahan never responded "I already do" to any "Dress sexy" requests. Ha! Barefoot, jeans, and button down is sexy to us, apparently. Also, Callahan's hair is getting long these days. We like it.) And an asshole "fan" who called for Callahan to hurry up his tuning—"I have to work tomorrow" is a pretty absurd thing to shout out at a Monday night concert, by the way—were greeted with "Well, you can go." (He didn't. Who would?)
The Brattle Theatre finally has its beer and wine license from the City of Cambridge, and it will start selling beer today. The new beer menu continues the theater's tradition of selling only independently made beverages. The menu includes Cambridge Brewing Company's Hefeweizen and Cambridge Amber Ale, both Bostonist-approved. The Brattle will celebrate its new found freedom-to-booze with a special screening, and you get to choose the movie for the event. We'll put aside our natural antipathy toward Canada and endorse Strange Brew, with the caveat that we'd actually rather re-watch Shaun of the Dead with a beer in hand.
Tomorrow the Somerville Community Garden will hold its annual Harvest Fair. Get your cider making and Butter Dance on, among other activities, from 1pm to 4pm. Those wishing to re-sully their cultural palates may enjoy the Brattle Theater's "Return to the Grindhouse" Repertory Series, starting at 8pm.
The only thing Bostonist likes more than a film festival is an unscheduled one. Two weeks after the Harvard Film Archive showed The Professionals, the Brattle is screening The Swimmer today as part of its "Disturbed Suburbs" series, giving Cambridge residents and Boston movie watchers something of an impromptu Burt Lancaster retrospective.
Special $15 ticket gets you into both events!
This past Monday French avant garde novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet died at the age of 85. Robbe-Grillet is regarded as the theorist behind the "new novel", which rejects conventional storytelling techniques for surface narratives that focus on objects and details rather than the world at large. Truly, he could suck a story out of an electric shaver like no other.
Few acts in hip-hop's young guard come more correct than Berkeley, CA crew The Pack. Roiling, minimalist beats, raps about partying and sneakers, and a whispered menace that keeps you off guard: it's like degree zero of the art form. Sounds great on record (or Myspace), but can they rock an audience? Harper's Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave., Allston, 7:00 pm, $12/$14.