FILM LISTINGS
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An Affair to Remember On board an ocean
liner, Nickie (Cary Grant) and Terry (Deborah Kerr) fall deeply in love and, although they’re already engaged to other people, promise to meet six months later atop the Empire State Building. Wednesday, 2 & 7 pm; multiple locations; $13.31; fathomevents.com. FilmSlam Monthly showcase of the best in local
independent film. Vote for each month’s winner. Sunday, 1 pm; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $8; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in Concert Relive the magic of the first Harry Potter
film on a giant screen while hearing the Orlando Philharmonic perform the score live. Saturday, 7:30 pm, Sunday, 1 & 6:30 pm; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $45-$75; 844-513-2014; drphillipscenter.org. I Am Ali Celebrate Black History Month with
films that highlight the achievements of black Americans. Friday, 11 am; Orlando Public Library,
MIA GOTH IN A CURE FOR WELLNESS | PHOTO COURTESY OF FOX
101 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-835-7323; ocls.info.
Goth’s character is also ridiculous, she gives the best performance. Indeed, when the film goes bat-shit crazy in its third act, she becomes infinitely watchable, harnessing an eroticism that is both mesmerizing and disturbing considering the character’s age Clarity is verboten in Gore Verbinski’s Cure and family ties. BY CAMERON MEIE R The film premiered at the 2016 ButtNumb-A-Thon Film Festival, which is he trailer for the new Gothic thriller ply can’t find the will to leave, and Lockhart appropriate considering its 146-minute A Cure for Wellness refers to direc- – helped by a mysterious patient, Hannah runtime. If 20 minutes had been excised, it tor Gore Verbinski as “visionary.” (Mia Goth) – is determined to find out why. would have at least had a chance at clarity. Much like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, But at its current length, the film would be The film’s promotional team must have mistaken having visions for being visionary. DeHaan is expected to do the film’s heavy better suited to the Brain-Numb-A-Thon That’s not all bad. Sure, Verbinski’s cre- lifting while depicting his own slide into Festival, as the smart, surreal premise slowation is a storytelling trainwreck, but this is insanity and undergoing torture on par ly, slowly unravels into schlock. Spoiler alert: One interpretation is that the Orient Express that’s crashing, and you with Malcolm McDowell’s in A Clockwork Lockhart – who is can’t look away from its crumpled beauty, Orange – and he’s not injured in a car crash especially because Verbinski (Rango, The up to the task. At least A CURE FOR WELLNESS – is dead for most Ring, The Lone Ranger, the Pirates of the he has company, as opens Friday, Feb. 17 of the movie. That Caribbean movies) so boldly mimics the other patients are also would explain some of cinematography of Stanley Kubrick and forced to undergo “the Verbinski’s wild plot the themes of The Third Man. Throw in an treatment.” Even a explorations and his embrace of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice couple of CGI animals drift toward pure “art and Magic Mountain, and you have the are harmed unnecesmakings of something special – if it didn’t sarily, seemingly to support Verbinski and film.” Another explanation is that Lockhart all collapse in a tedious, bloated cacophony writer Justin Haythe’s misguided, mud- is delusional, or a patient from the outset, in dled metaphors about the life essence and, the vein of I Am the Cheese, an underrated of silliness. Dane DeHaan, perhaps best known for um, precious bodily fluids. Admittedly, the mindbender from 1983. Personally, I was playing the Green Goblin in The Amazing symbolism would be arresting, if we only rooting for the latter, but, frankly, I would Spider-Man 2 in 2014, plays Lockhart, a understood it. Similarly, the film’s com- have settled for anything other than the young American executive. After his boss mentaries on commercial greed and mental actual conclusion. Meat Loaf taught us that we’ll never visits a secluded spa in the Swiss Alps and health would have been more impactful if find a Coupe de Ville at the bottom of a refuses to return, the company assumes they hadn’t been devoid of context. As Volmer, the sanatorium’s director, Cracker Jack box. Conversely, Verbinski he’s had a nervous breakdown and sends Lockhart to retrieve him. But, once there, he Jason Isaacs is well-cast, but, like DeHaan, has reminded us that we might one day realizes the sanatorium has both a haunted he too is a prisoner of a nonsensical script crack open a Fabergé egg and find a Yugo. history and a bizarre attraction. People sim- and an unrelateable character. Though film@orlandoweekly.com
ALL IS NOT WELL
Movie Classics on Magnolia: Rebel Without a Cause This landmark 1955 film, starring
James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood, blew away the image of middle-class suburban teens. Thursday, 7:30 pm; Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center, 201 S. Magnolia Ave.,
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Sanford; $5; 407-321-8111; wdpac.com. Music Mondays: A Poem Is a Naked Person Documentary about singer-songwriter
Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974. Monday, 9:30 pm; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $11; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. Oscar Shorts 2017: Animated Short ani-
mated films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards. Through Thursday;
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Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $11; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. Oscar Shorts 2017: Live Action Short films nomi-
nated for this year’s Academy Awards. Through Thursday; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $11; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. Within Our Gates Abandoned by her fiancé, an ed-
ucated black woman dedicates herself to helping a school for impoverished black youths. Filmed in 1920. Wednesday, 6 pm; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach; free; 386-506-4475; smponline.org. ●
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