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All shows at Mass
Ave Video:
922 Mass Avenue <map>
Wine tastings precede most shows courtesy Mass Ave Wine Shop.
September 4 - Once
2007 - Ireland - 85 minutes - MusicalOh, what to say about this lyrical, beautiful, soulful Irish gem? When Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova get together around a piano and start performing "Falling Slowly" (mere minutes into the film), I felt as if I'd been granted an out-of-body experience. This is a movie that - on a $100,000 budget manages to soar.
I'm guessing most of you have seen this tale of a busker and the Czech immigrant with whom he makes beautiful music, but if you have, I know you want to see it again. If you haven't, then here's a chance to rid yourself of the shame of missing out on one of 2007's absolute treats.
RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER. SEE BELOW.
September 11 - Trying to Get Good:
The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon
2007 - US - 90 minutes - Documentary / MusicalWho is Jack Sheldon? You may remember him as Merv Griffin's trumpet-wielding sidekick, or the indelible voice on 'School House Rock' (“I’m just a bill. Yes I’m only a bill”), but musicians know him as a jazz giant. Unlike his close friend and collaborator, Chet Baker, Jack Sheldon survived the demons of drugs, alcohol and unspeakable personal tragedy. As friend Billy Crystal puts it, Jack Sheldon is the 'last cat standing' from the bebop generation. Trying to Get Good features on-camera interviews with Clint Eastwood, Billy Crystal, Merv Griffin, Chris Botti, and Johnny Mandel among others, along with historic footage with Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton and other legends. Trying to Get Good examines the eternally dissatisfied soul of a musical perfectionist and his quest to just 'figure things out'.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2008 IIFF.
September 18 - Blood Simple
1984 - US - 99 minutes - Mystery / SuspenseThe Coen Bros. made their masterpiece with No Country for Old Men (as if Fargo isn't a masterpiece, too). But to truly see their career in perspective, we need to go back and see how it all started.
This Texas noir is how they started it all, and how's this for a Coen Bros. beginning: A backwoods bar owner pays a private detective to off his wife, but in a nifty turnabout, the PI offs the bar owner - he gets to keep the money and there's no witness to the initial crime of being hired to kill the wife. The wife has been having an affair with one of the bartenders, and when he finds the body of the bar owner... Well, I can't say anymore. But this final installment in our look back at American film noir shows just how amazing these complex stories can be - even if move it away from the big city and into a rural setting. The conclusion is brutally violent, but stunningly exciting and you know that you've been manipulated by two masters.
September 25 - Once
2007 - Ireland - 85 minutes - MusicalOh, what to say about this lyrical, beautiful, soulful Irish gem? When Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova get together around a piano and start performing "Falling Slowly" (mere minutes into the film), I felt as if I'd been granted an out-of-body experience. This is a movie that - on a $100,000 budget manages to soar.
I'm guessing most of you have seen this tale of a busker and the Czech immigrant with whom he makes beautiful music, but if you have, I know you want to see it again. If you haven't, then here's a chance to rid yourself of the shame of missing out on one of 2007's absolute treats.
The rights to Dangerous Men have changed hands and as a result we will be unable to screen it. Once was cancelled due to weather so we are showing it here in its place.
