To-do: Week starting 13/5: New York I Love You, Love Lust and Lies, Robin Hood, Goemon, Kurosawa
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY 13th
New York, I Love You, from the producers of Paris je t’aime, opens. It’s the same concept except with a different city and crappier directors. Seriously- Brett Ratner?
Love, Lust and Lies, a documentary from Gillian Armstrong in the same vein as Michael Apted’s Seven Up! series, opens. We reviewed it here.
Robin Hood, re-envisioned by Ridley Scott with Russell Crowe in the lead and Cate Blanchett as Maid Marion, opens.
Goemon, the ninja-romance-fantasy-action-revenge epic from Japan, continues its extended season at ACMI, ending May 30th.
SUNDAY 16th
West Side Story, the 1961 musical re-telling of Romeo and Juliet relocated to New York, plays the matinee at Astor.
In the evening, Astor screens Freaks, Tod Browning’s film from 1931 about a travelling freak show (with probably the best movie poster ever), followed by Kubrick’s version of Lolita, an adaptation of Nabokov’s novel about a professor’s affair with a much younger girl.
WEDNESDAY 19th
Cinematheque continues its Akira Kurosawa retrospective with 1950’s Rashomon, his famous film recounting an event multiple times over through the subjective perspectives of its various characters, and the lesser-seen No Regrets For Our Youth (1946) about the tribulations of a woman who falls in love with a radical leftist during World War II.
