Melancholia
Sunday, October 16 at 6:50 p.m. Prytania Theatre Wednesday, October 19 at 5:45 p.m. Prytania Theatre DIR/WRITER: Lars von Trier PROD: Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth CAM: Manuel Alberto Claro ED: Morten Hojbjerg, Molly Stensgaard It’s the End of the World…not as we know it, not as some cataclysmic CGI spectacle; nor would you expect such from Lars von Trier, the melancholy Dane who was the promulgator of Dogma 95, the late nineties school of minimalist filmmaking. In his beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous DENMARK, SWEDEN, FRANCE, GERMANY / 2011 / 136 min party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth.
The Mortician (in 3D)
Sunday, October 16, 9:10 p.m. Prytania Theatre
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DIR/WRITER/PROD: Gareth Maxwell Roberts PROD: Rene Bastian, Linda Moran, Rhys David Thomas CAM: Michael McDonough ED: David Charap The Mortician is a contemporary urban noir. A redemption tale, the story of a man stepping from darkness into light, one man’s struggle through the violence and corruption of a dying city where the poor are corralled into lawless ghettos. Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new UK / 2011 / 87 min employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). A volatile youth working as part of his parole, Noah brings the notorious gangster, Carver (Dash Mihok), to the mortuary door. The Mortician’s attention is pricked by the tattoo of Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’ inked on the body of a murdered woman (Judy Marte), that arrives at the morgue, triggering a series of haunting dreams from his childhood. Discovering a scared child, Kane (Cruz Santiago), fleeing the morgue, he’s forced to act. Kane sparks The Mortician’s emotional awakening. They become reluctant allies struggling for redemption. They flee from danger, determined to escape the physical and emotional chains that threaten to imprison them forever. *Filmmakers scheduled to attend.
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