MUSIC
9.9
30 Seconds to Mars
@ Webster Theatre
Hartford, CT
$25 / 6 pm
Caspian
@ Lilly’s Pad (Toad’s Place)
New Haven, CT
$8 / 8 pm
9.10
Disco Biscuits / RJD2
@ Mountain Park
Holyoke, MA
$27.50 / 6 pm
Despised Icon / Misery Index
@ Waterfront Tavern
Holyoke, MA
$15 / 6:30 pm
9.12
Collie Buddz
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$25 / 9 pm
9.14
Defiance, Ohio
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$8 / 7:30 pm
9.16
Nachtmystium
@ Webster Theatre
Hartford, CT
$12 / 7 pm
MOVIES
9.9 – 9.11
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
@ Cinestudio, Trinity College
Hartford, CT
$7 / 7:30 pm
“When Coco Chanel attends the Ballet Russe’s 1913 premiere of The Rite of Spring, she thrills to the riot-provoking choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky – and the revolutionary music of Igor Stravinsky. Seven years later, Sergei Diaghilev introduces the convention-breaking designer to Stravinsky, who is struggling to survive in Paris with his children and ailing wife. Chanel invites the family to stay at her country home, where an instant erotic attraction brings together the two artists. As opposed to Audrey Tautou’s young and inexperienced portrayal in Coco Before Chanel, Mouglalis plays one of the 20th century’s most accomplished women at her creative – and passionate – prime. ‘two hours of luxury and loveliness, music and art, and a bit of sexually charged madness, too.’ – Stephen Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer.”
9.10
The Front Page
@ Torp Theatre, CCSU
FREE / 2 pm
“This first of four film versions of the Ben Hecht/Charlrd MacArthur Broadway hit starsAdolphe Menjou as explosive Chicago newspaper-editor Walter Burns and Pat O’Brien as his star reporter Hildy Johnson. Hildy is on the verge of getting married and retiring from Burns’ dirty little tabloid, but he agrees to cover one last story: the politically motivated execution of convicted cop killer Earl Williams (George E. Stone). Thanks to the stupidity of the police, Williams manages to escape, and Johnson hides the wounded fugitive in a rolltop desk in the prison pressroom. Burns enters the scene, senses a swell story (and also a means of keeping Johnson on his payroll), and conspires with Johnson to keep Williams out of sight until they can secure an exclusive interview. Burns will do anything to keep Johnson on the scene, including having the reporter’s future mother-in-law kidnapped. Complicating matters are Johnson’s fiancée Peggy (Mary Brian), Williams’ girlfriend Molly Malloy (Mae Clarke), and the corrupt mayor (James Gordon) and sheriff (Clarence C. Wilson), who have railroaded Williams to the death house in order to win votes and are now trying to suppress the news that the governor has commuted Williams’ sentence. The Front Page was remade by Howard Hawks in 1939 as His Girl Friday, with the symbiotic relationship between Burns and Johnson changed to a sexual one by transforming Hildy Johnson into a woman (played by Rosalind Russell) with Cary Grant as her old flame Walter. It was again remade by Billy Wilder in 1974 with Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, and a young Susan Sarandon.” – Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Barbarella
@ Bow Tie Criterion Cinema
New Haven, CT
$5 / 11:30 pm
A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up. Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an interstellar representative of the united Earth government in the 41st century, is dispatched to locate scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic ray, if not recovered, could signal the end of humanity. Outfitted in an array of stunning Star Trek/Bond girl outfits and cruising around in a plush, psychedelic spaceship, Barbarella travels to the Tau Seti system and promptly crash-lands. She then spends the rest of the film discovering the joys of interstellar sex with a keeper of feral children (Ugo Tognazzi), a blind, beatific angel (John Phillip Law), and an inept revolutionary named Dildano (David Hemmings). Slowly but surely, she also finds her way to Durand Durand by moving from one exotic, Wizard of Oz-style locale to another. Along the way, she meets the kindly Professor Ping (a surprisingly verbal Marcel Marceau), a Eurotrash dominatrix named the Great Tyrant (Rolling Stones gal pal Anita Pallenberg), and the Concierge (Milo O’Shea), a strangely familiar lackey of the Great Tyrant who tries to destroy Barbarella with his great big organ of love. Jean-Claude Forest, who created the character Barbarella in 1962 for ~V-Magazine, served as visual advisor on the adaptation. The film’s missing scientist character famously inspired the band name of ’80s pop stars Duran Duran (who altered the spelling slightly). Almost two decades later, the film also inspired electronic act Matmos, which was named after the aqueous personification of evil unleashed by the Concierge at the movie’s climax. – Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
9.12 – 9.15
The Secret in their Eyes
@ Cinestudio, Trinity College
Hartford, CT
$7 / 7:30 pm
“The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film – and the biggest box office hit in Argentina in 35 years – is one of the first films to take on the abuses of power leading up to the coup d’etat that overthrew Isabel Peron. It begins in the present day, when a melancholy court investigator (Ricardo Darin) and his boss, an aristocratic judge (Soledad Villamil) become obsessed with the hushed-up murder of a young woman in the mid-1970s. The judge’s alcoholic assistant – played by comedian Guillermo Francella – is a witness to their search for the truth, and to their twisting path towards love. ‘Every time a government tries to control the people, violating the law, they play the fear card – and people submit to it.’ – director Juan Jose Campanella.”
9.13
Get Him to the Greek
@ Semesters, CCSU
FREE / 7 pm
“An ambitious young record company executive attempts to transport an unpredictable rock star to L.A.’s Greek Theatre in time for his hotly anticipated comeback performance in this spin-off of the comedy hit Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) has just landed his dream job in the record industry, and he’s eager to prove his worth. His first assignment: travel to London and escort British rock god Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) to the show that will re-ignite his career. Before he departs, Aaron is warned by his boss Sergio Roma (Sean Combs) to never let Aldous out of his sight, and never underestimate his capacity for mayhem. Immensely talented yet deeply tortured, Aldous hit the bottle hard after his popularity began to wane and his girl walked out on him. Aldous is locked in the midst of an existential crisis, and rues the thought of being accompanied across the pond by an insincere sycophant. Though it seems like sex is the only thing Aldous ever thinks about, his thoughts turn to romance when he discovers that gorgeous model/pop singer Jackie Q (Rose Byrne) will be in Los Angeles at the time of his concert, too. Jackie Q is the love of Aldous’ life, and he’ll do anything and everything to win her heart. With the concert fast approaching and Aaron’s fledgling career on the line, the race is on to get Aldous to the Greek, and ensure the big show goes off without a hitch.” – Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
