Last Chance

I’ve been remiss: there are two fascinating films in town, and tonight’s your last chance to one of them. Unfortunately, I can’t speak to Death of a President, as I’m going to tonight’s 7:15 show, but I’ll weigh in on it tomorrow–it’s around for another week.

So I’m hoping, gentle readers, that you go instead to a film that I believe will someday be a B-movie classic, in line with many of the great 50s noirs: 13 Tzameti. There is one showing, at 9:00 tonight, at the Lagoon. Tzameti is a movie of surprising power and tension, well acted (not a requirement in a B-movie), and a treatise for beginning filmmakers on exactly how to make a movie on the cheap. Focus on your characters, on your plot, keep your actors engaged, and can the fancy stuff until you get your hands on a real budget. I’m already dreaming of the day, hopefully in the not-too-distant future, when I’m walking the midnight streets of some forlorn city, Detroit or L.A. or New York, and I come across this little flick at some run down theater in a bad part of town. If all went well it would be raining afterward, and I’d spend the next few hours in an overlit coffee shop, watching the nightowls and thinking of poor Sebastien and his fate.

Since this may never happen, you owe it to yourself to stay up late this evening with 13 Tzameti.