Once again I’m ignoring this weekend’s top releases–especially Stranger Than Fiction, which does not look appealing in the least (sorry Amy). Instead, dear readers (or reader), there are two films outside the mainstream worth checking out:
The Mill City Museum is hosting the documentary Urban Explorers: Into The Darkness tonight at 6:30. Director Melody Gilbert will be on hand to answer questions and schmooze with the audience. The movie follows a group of people with punk superhero names (Max Action, Slim Jim, Katwoman) as they pull manhole covers off the city streets and climb down into the sewers to find adventure. I’d love to have the backbone to be able to descend into the guts of the city, or break into to old abandoned buildings and see what’s there. I don’t (have the guts, that is), so this film will have to suffice.
Also: The Walker Art Center is giving us Blue Velvet on the big screen tonight and tomorrow! This movie blew me away when I saw it in college, long ago. Those billowing silk curtains to open the film, the stroke that brings the hero back into town, and Lynch’s camera diving into the grass to expose a cruel world where insects devour anything at will… if that’s not enough, on comes Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and my personal favorite, Dean Stockwell singing “A candy colored clown they call the sandman”. I’ve seen this picture only once on the big screen, over twenty years ago, and if you’ve never seen it in a theater, make it a point to do so. Blue Velvet screens as part of the Isabella Rossellini: Illuminated, and plays tonight at 9:45 and tomorrow at 7:30.
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