To-do: Week starting 22/4: More Jacques Demy, Bunny and the Bull, Hot Tub Time Machine
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY
The Bunny and the Bull, a comedic road movie from Paul King (director of The Mighty Boosh), opens exclusively at Nova. Actually set entirely inside the characters’ flat, the film is more a surreal recreation of a past roadtrip resulting in some amazing Gondry-esque visuals.
Hot Tub Time Machine, starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke and Crispin Glover (!!!) is about a hot tub that is also a time machine. The film is a comedy and opens this week.
Rock Steady: The Roots of Reggae documents the reunion of reggae greats as they reminisce about the birth of the rocksteady genre in the mid-sixties. Opens at Nova for an exclusive limited season.
Accidents Happen, a black comedy set in American suburbia (shock horror!) and starring Geena Davis, opens.
When in Rome is about two hot people (played by Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel) who have sex (hopefully).
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays at ACMI presents What’s New Pussycat?, a comedy from 1965 about a womanizer’s troubles with staying faithful to his fiancée, written by Woody Allen and starring Peter O’Toole, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen.
SATURDAY
Twilight and Twilight: New Moon at The Astor.
SUNDAY
George Stevens’ epic of American life, Giant, starring James Dean in his final role, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor, screens at the Astor.
MONDAY
Monday sux.
TUESDAY
Filmoteca presents Goodnight Irene, a Portuguese comedy about two lonely men on a journey to find a missing woman.
WEDNESDAY
Cinematheque continues their Jacques Demy with 1967’s musical The Young Girls of Rochefort (starring Catherine Deneuve) and 1982’s A Room in Town (Une chambre en ville) about a striking worker who falls for a call girl with dialogue delivered entirely in song.
I’ll just straight up copy the synopsis from The Astor website for My Name is Khan because it is awesome:
Rizwan, a Muslim from Mumbai, suffers from Asperger syndrome (a form of high-functioning autism complicating socialisation). He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. Rizwan is detained by authorities at Los Angeles airport who mistake his disability for “suspicious” behavior. Rizwan then begins a journey to meet US President Obama to clear his name.
