MUSIC
11.18
Metric
w/ Band of Skulls
@ The Webster
Hartford, Conn.
$18 / 7 p.m.
11.19
Tip the Van
w/ Strange Tribe
and Johnny 9 and the Racers
@ CCSU (Semesters)
New Britain, Conn.
Free / 9 p.m.
11.20
Less Than Jake
@ The Webster
Hartford, Conn.
$20 / 6 p.m.
11.25
Melt-Banana
@ The Space
Hamden, Conn.
$12 / 7 p.m.
12.1
Matisyahu
@ The Webster
Hartford, Conn.
$25 / 7:00 p.m.
FILM
11.18
Gomorrah
@ Cinestudio
Hartford, Conn.
$7.00 / 7:30 p.m.
Martin Scorsese was so impressed by this new Italian movie that he introduced it at the New York Film Festival and immediately signed on as the American ‘presenter.’ No surprise: Gomorrah is a shocking, revelatory look at organized crime in Naples that strips any semblance of romance from its Mafia connection.
Gomorrah is based on the exposé by journalist Roberto Saviano, who has been living undercover with 24 hour police protection since he blew the whistle on the violence, exploitation and toxic pollution that has a grip around the throat of one of Europe’s busiest port cities. “I hope this movie will finally show people the ferocious face of Italy, which is the face that really runs things,” Saviano says. “I think many American moviegoers will be surprised.”
11.20 – 11.21
Capitalism: A Love Story
@ Cinestudio
$7 / 7:30 p.m.
After making films for 20 years exposing the failures of the auto industry (Roger & Me), gun control (Bowling For Columbine) and the health industry (Sicko) among others, Michael Moore asked himself “what subject would I take on if this was my last film?” The answer was a no-brainer: the unrestrained economic system of capitalism that Moore sets out to prove is “undemocratic and immoral.” Managing to be ridiculously entertaining at the same time he is fired up with outrage is Moore’s great gift, and there are moments of laughter (wrapping Wall Street with crime scene tape) to balance the anguish of a family blockading themselves in their home to prevent eviction
11.20 – 11.25
Crude
@ Real Art Ways
Hartford, Conn.
$6.25 / 7 p.m.
“Mr. Berlinger has both a strong narrative instinct and a keen eye for incongruous, evocative and powerful images… intelligently and artfully made.”
-A.O. Scott, The New York Times
“Here’s a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore.”
-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
11.22 – 11.24
The Stoning of Soraya M.
@ Cinestudio
$7 / 7:30 p.m.
In the 1980s, French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam (portrayed here by James Caviezel) uncovered the events leading to the trial and eventual execution of Soraya M. in a strongly fundamentalist community in Iran. The film is based on Sahebjam’s book, which was banned in Iran but which brought the world’s attention to the toll on women under the extreme use of Sharia law. Putting a public face on her shocking story – Soraya M. was framed on a trumped-up charge of adultery and stoned to death – uncovers the brutality not of Islam or Iran, but of the shuttered mindset of fundamentalism that so often points the finger at women’s sexual freedom as enemy number one.
11.29 – 12.1
Metropolis
@ Cinestudio
$7 / 7:30 p.m.
Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, Metropolis had for 75 years been seen only in shortened or truncated versions. Now, restored in Germany with state-of-the-art digital technology, under the supervision of the Murnau Foundation, and with the original 1927 orchestral score by Gottfried Huppertz added, Metropolis can be appreciated in its full glory. It is, as A. O. Scott of The New York Times declared, “A fever dream of the future. At last we have the movie every would-be cinematic visionary has been trying to make since 1927.”
Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th century, many of which presage such sci-fi landmarks as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner. Lavish and spectacular, with elaborate sets and modern science fiction style, Metropolis stands today as the crowning achievement of the German silent cinema
11.30
Wild Strawberries
@ Real Art Ways
Hartford, Conn.
$6.25 / 1:30 p.m.
Professor Isak Borg (Victor Sjöström), an elderly physician, begins to realize his own mortality in Ingmar Bergman’s classic. The groundbreaking Wild Strawberries also stars Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand and common Bergman actor Max von Sydow.
CCSU
11.19 – 11.20
Cirque du Fantasia
@Torp Theatre, Davidson Hall
11.19 – 5 p.m. / 11.20 – 7:30 p.m.
11.19
Turkey-schlock
@ Black Box Theatre, Maloney Hall
7:30 p.m.
