Weekend Movie Guide
If you’re avoiding Kingdom of Heaven or House of Wax—and really, we don’t blame you—Gothamist suggests checking out the alternative and low-budget movies hitting New York’s smaller theatres. While, according to the NYTimes, a certain portion of moviegoers “will no doubt buy tickets hoping to see [Paris Hilton] meet a gruesome end," we think you’re better off with the following:
Documentary Buffs should check out the critically acclaimed Double Dare, a look at two female stuntpersons: one, the aging Wonder Woman double who paved the way for female stuntpersons in the 1970’s, the other a young, brash Xena/Kill Bill stuntwoman. Investigating the history of the female-action hero genre, the film focuses on duality, women’s issues, and power struggles. The cast and crew will be present for tonight and tomorrow’s 7:30 PM screenings at the Quad Cinema [34 West 13th St]
The Two Boots Pioneer Theatre presents indie film darling Hal Hartley's (of Trust fame) The Girl From Monday, a futuristic dystopia in which consumer-obsessed citizens possess personal bar codes used to monitor their consumption of practically everything - especially sex – degrading them to mere products. If you’re up for seeing beefcake Matt Dillon play a racist cop, check out Paul Haggis’ (Million Dollar Baby) ensemble drama Crash, which deals with race and gender issues as a group of Los Angeles strangers physically and emotionally collide. Scott Heim Fans might be interested in Mysterious Skin, a drama about two small-town teens who were both molested by their little league baseball coach; a repressed nerd obsessed with alien probes and a gay daredevil (3rd Rock’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a skewed view of sex. Also starring Buffy’s Michelle Tratchenberg, this NC-17 film features music from Cocteau Twins and Ride.
Also, Comedy Central’s Primetime Glick fans can find obnoxious Jiminy and his wife Trixie frolicking at the Toronto Film Festival in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood.
Resurrections: The Landmark Sunshine @midnight offers insomniacs the 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy, following Jon Voight as a Texan hustler servicing rich Park Avenue women. And tonight at 7:00 PM, The anthology Film Archives presents the 1997 German favorite LIFE IS ALL YOU GET (from Wolfgang Becker of Goodbye Lenin!), which centers on a young butcher who falls on his luck when he saves a young woman from a couple of thugs who turn out to be plainclothes policemen.
And you haven’t already seen it, please go to Kung Fu Hustle, Kill Bill-esque slapstick martial arts flick which would be a shame to miss on the big screen.
