Ty's movie picks for Friday, May 9
The family film you're looking for this weekend is "Son of Rambow." You don't even have to have a family -- date movie, chick flick, solo viewing: however you want to watch it, the movie works. "Speed Racer," by contrast, is like being stuck inside a computer that's overdosed on Sugar Bombs and is having a panic attack. If that's your idea of fun, by all means go, speed racer, go. Me, I prefer the original.
Other good bets: Harmony Korine gets warm and fuzzy (relatively speaking) with "Mr. Lonely" and David Mamet tests his macho mettle with the L.A. jiu-jitsu morality play "Redbelt," worth seeing for Chiwetel Ejiofor if nothing else. As for "What Happens in Vegas," don't. Just don't.
At the rep houses and institutions: The 24th Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival unspools at the MFA; Wesley wrote up the details earlier in the week. If you missed the Coolidge presentation last night of the 1926 animated "Prince Achmed" (photo above) with the live soundtrack performance by the Tiger Saw collective, they'll play it again Saturday at midnight. Today's Globe has a nice profile of the group. The United Artists repertory series continues at the Brattle -- this weekend you get to see "The Manchurian Candidate," "West Side Story," and "The Thomas Crown Affair" with its high-60s Boston locations. There's also a Charlie Chaplin program on Saturday. And the Harvard Film Archive has a very neat series of films commemorating the cultural earthquakes of May 1968 in Paris. Get your Godard freak on here, especially if you missed "Contempt" at the Brattle last month.
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I don't understand why the film 'Young At Heart' is unfortunately playing at only a few select theartes.
I have had the pleasure of seeing this twice so far and I can tell you that it is a film that I can see countless of times.
Unfortunately many of my friends are unable to travel to the theatres that this film is now appearing in.
How can I contact the promoters to tell them that there is a wide public of movie goers that have stopped going to see the current movies because of ther content but would flock to see 'Young At Heart if it was showing in theatres located near them '
Ty's response: See the post above, Ella, and know I feel your pain. The problem is that "small" docs like this don't break into the multiplexes but are forced to play rep houses and art cinemas. Unfortunately, the studio-affiliated distribution and exhibition companies don't bother with audiences over 40, because they see teens, the family audience, and 20somethings as their primary profit centers. I agree, it's an absurd situation, but the promoters and distributors who toil in the independent world are doing the best they can.
"Young@Heart" is a special case, though, since it's distributed by Fox Searchlight, the "indie" wing of 20th Century Fox. So, yes, there probably are more theatrical options available, and yes, you should write them a letter. Try Jonathan Ross, VP of distribution, Fox Searchlight
10201 W. Pico Blvd. Bldg. 38, Los Angeles, CA 9003. If they can get "Juno" to the multiplexes, they can do the same for "Young@Heart."