MUSIC
10/10
Impending Doom/Whitechapel
@ The Webster
Hartford, CT
$17/6 p.m.
The Tired and True
@ Daniel Street Cafe
Milford, CT
$5/8 p.m.
10/12
Xiu Xiu/Deerhoof
@ Daniel Street Cafe
Milford, CT
$14/8:30 p.m.
10/13
Mayday Parade/Breathe Carolina
@ The Webster
Hartford CT
$17/5 p.m.
Los Campesinos!
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$15/8 p.m.
Mae
@ The Space
Hamden, CT
$16/7 p.m.
Circa Survive/Animals as Leaders
@ The Webster
Hartford CT
$16.50/6:30 p.m.
10/16
Suicide Silence/Molotov Solution
@ The Webster
Hartford CT
$17.50/6 p.m.
10/17
High on Fire / Torche / Kylesa
@ Pearl Street Nightclub
Northampton, MA
$18/8 p.m.
FILM
10/13 – 10/16
Inception
@ Trinity College
Hartford, CT
$8/7:30 p.m.
When Cinestudio screened Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000) and The Dark Knight (2008), the audience lingered to talk in the lobby long after the curtain came down: a sure sign the movies engaged their imagination. Nolan’s newest also plays with the engagement between imagination, film, and dreams, as a man (Leonardo DiCaprio) who searches people’s dreams to find corporate secrets, discovers he can actually enter their sleeping minds. Inception is an explosion of visual awesomeness, from collapsing cities to the haunting face of a woman (Academy Award-winning Marion Cotillard) who may only exist in the subconscious mind of the man who loves her. “As soon as youíre talking about dreams, the potential of the human mind is infinite.” Christopher Nolan
10/14
Despicable Me
@ CCSU Student Center
FREE/10 p.m.
10/15 & 10/16
Donnie Darko
@ Criterion Cinemas
New Haven, CT
$5/11:30 p.m.
Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a dark and willfully eccentric side; he does little to mask his contempt for many of his peers and enjoys challenging the authority of the adults around him. Donnie is also visited on occasion by Frank, a monstrous six-foot rabbit that only Donnie can see who often urges him to perform dangerous and destructive pranks. Late one night, Frank leads Donnie out of his home to inform him that the world will come to an end in less than a month; moments later, the engine of a jet aircraft comes crashing through the ceiling of Donnie’s room, making him think there might be something to Frank’s prophesies after all. The rest of Donnie’s world is only marginally less bizarre, as he finds himself dealing with his confused parents (Mary McDonnell and Holmes Osborne), his college-age sister (Maggie Gyllenhaal), his perplexed analyst (Katherine Ross), a rebellious English teacher (Drew Barrymore), a sleazy self-help expert (Patrick Swayze), and the new girl at school who is attracted by Donnie’s quirks (Jena Malone). Donnie Darko was the first feature film from writer and director Richard Kelly; Drew Barrymore, who plays teacher Karen Pomeroy, also lent her support to the project as executive producer. A director’s cut played in select theaters on a limited basis in the summer of 2004, featuring original music cues and trimmed scenes originally in Kelly‘s first cut of the film. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
