MUSIC
11/10
The Morning Benders/Twin Sister
@ Iron Horse Music Hall
Northampton, MA
$12.50 adv./8:30 p.m.
11/12
D.R.I (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles)
@ The Webster
Hartford, CT
$15 adv./6:30 p.m. doors
11/13
The McLovins
@ Hoops & Hops
Simsbury, CT
21+ only
11/15
The Chariot
@ The Webster
Hartford, CT
$10 adv./6 p.m. doors
11/16
nevershoutnever/The Maine
@ The Webster
Hartford, CT
$17.50 adv./6 p.m. doors
11/17
Allstar Weekend
@ Toad’s Place
New Haven, CT
$15 adv./5 p.m. doors
FILM
11/12 & 11/13
The Room
@ Bow Tie Cinema Palace Theatre
Hartford, CT
$10/11:30 p.m.
The Room is an electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies. It has five major characters, Johnny, played by Tommy Wiseau is a successful banker with great respect for an dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. Johnny can also be a little too trusting at times which haunts him later on. Lisa, played by Juliette Danielle, is the beautiful blond fiance of Johnny. She has always gotten her way and will manipulate to get what she wants. She is a taker, with a double personality, and her deadly schemes lead to her own downfall. Mark, played by Greg Sestero, is a young, successful and independent best friend of Johnny. He has a good heart, but gets caught up in Lisa’s dangerous web and gives in to temptation. This eventually brings him to great loss. Claudette, played by Carolyn Minnott, is the classy, sophisticated mother of Lisa who has had disappointing relationships in her life. She wants her daughter to be married as soon as possible so she can benefit. Denny, played by Philip Haldiman, is an orphan boy, naive and confused about life, love, and friendship. Denny is a very ambitions and also very grateful tot he people who are in his life. The Room depicts the depths of friendships and relationships in one life and raises life’s real and most asked question: “Can you ever really trust anyone? Enter The Room and leave forever changed!
11/15 & 11/16
Howl
@ Cinestudio (Trinity College)
Hartford, CT
$8/7:30 p.m.
Straight from Trinity’s Eros Film Festival, a hugely entertaining movie on how one poem crystallized the Beat generation’s yearning for freedom in art, life, and the choice of sexual partners. James Franco gives an Oscar®-worthy performance as the young Allen Ginsberg, acting from a script based on actual interviews, transcripts of the poem’s 1957 court trial for obscenity, and lines from the incendiary Howl. The courtroom scenes are amazing, as a San Francisco prosecutor (David Strathairn) battles the defense attorney (Jon Hamm) to have it banned from publication. The proceedings veer from the absurd to the passionate, as a parade of ‘expert’ witnesses take part in one of the seminal contests of art vs. fear. “Howl does something that sounds simple until you consider how rarely it occurs…It takes a familiar, celebrated piece of writing and makes it come alive.” – A. O. Scott, New York Times
11/17
Never Let You Go
@ Cinemastudio (Trinity College)
Hartford, CT
$8/7:30 p.m.
Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, who last acted together in Pride & Prejudice, join Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) in the haunting new movie based on the 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. In Hailsham, a British boarding school that is the very opposite of Hogwarts, the innocent friendship of three students played by Mulligan, Garfield and Knightley is torn from within by a shifting love triangle, and without by expectations of the adult world they do not understand. Part coming of age story, part romance, and part sci-fi horror, Never Let Me Go is also a haunting allegory on the damage that adults can (and do) inflict on the younger generation. “a moving and provocative film that initially unsettles, then disturbs and finally haunts you well into the night.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
CCSU Events
11/11
Dinner for Schmucks
@ Philbrick Camp
FREE/10 p.m.
When he finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their guests, a rising executive questions it when he’s invited, just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest. -IMDb
11/14 & 11/15
Eat Pray Love
@ Torp (14th), Semesters (15th)
FREE/7 p.m.
A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to “find herself”. -IMDb
11/16
John Taglier
@ Semesters
FREE/7 p.m.
