MUSIC
10/28
OK Go
@ Webster
Hartford, CT
$16/7 p.m.
State Radio
@ Iron Horse
Northampton, MA
$28/10 p.m.
Indigo Girls
@ Toads Place
New Haven, CT
$40/8:30 p.m.
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
@ Toad’s Place (Lilly’s Pad)
New Haven, CT
$10/8 p.m.
10/30
Hey Monday
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$15/5:30 p.m.
10/31
Devin Townsend Project
@ Webster
Hartford, CT
$15/7 p.m.
11/1
Hellshock/Age/Attentat
@ Whitney House
Hartford, CT
$5/7 p.m.
Every Time I Die
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$15/7 p.m.
11/3
Lucero
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$18/8:30 p.m.
The Cult
@ Webster
Hartford, CT
$27/7 p.m.
FILM
10/29
The Shining
@ Cinestudio
Hartford, CT
$8/9:30 p.m.
Your trick-or-treating days may be over, but that’s no reason to miss out on a chance to be scared out of your pants! One of the terrifying movies ever made comes to the big screen for one night only. You won’t want to go home alone after seeing the beyond-creepy implosion of a “typical” American family. Jack Nicholson is at his sharpest as a writer who spirits his family away to act as caretaker for the mysterious Overlook Hotel, where horror and ‘redrum’ wait behind every door – Directed by the great Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, 2001; A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange), there’s sly humor to go along with the suspense. Just remember, “All work and no fun make Jack a dull boy” 119 min
10/30
Metropolis (with live music by the Alloy Orchestra)
@ Real Art Ways
Hartford, CT
$20/$25/8 p.m.
The Alloy Orchestra accompany the fully restored version ofMetropolis, the Fritz Lang classic dystopian epic.
25 additional minutes of footage, once thought forever lost, were discovered in Buenos Aires in 2008. Now newly restored, Metropolis is being screened in its complete form for the first time since its 1927 premiere in Berlin.
Roger Ebert calls the Alloy Orchestra “the best in the world at accompanying silent films.” The three-man ensemble work with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects.
The group is composed of Terry Donahue (junk, accordion, musical saw, vocals), Ken Winokur (director, junk percussion and clarinet), and Roger Miller (keyboards). They have composed scores for nearly 30 silent films.
10/31 – 1/3
Breathless (50th Anniversary Restoration)
@ Cinestudio
Hartford, CT
Jean-Luc Godard’s tribute to (or post-modern commentary on) American gangster movies is the perfect example of the revolutionary attack on studio filmmaking that defined France’s New Wave. Jean Seberg plays a young American student selling the Herald Tribune on the Champs-Elysee, who catches the eye of a small time thief: a star-making performance by the impossibly cool Jean-Paul Belmondo. Played out on the streets, cars, and apartments of Paris, it is not always easy to see where passion ends, and danger begins. In 1961, famously cranky New York Times critic Bosley Crowther called Breathless “sordid” and “completely devoid of moral tone.” Some fifty years later, Roger Ebert said of Godard’s masterpiece – which was based on a story by Francois Truffaut – “Modern movies began here.” 90 min.
