(6.15) Movies on the Block helps usher in Pride Weekend with the 2001 comedy/drama/musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” — an anatomically incorrect rock odyssey — written, directed by, and starring John Cameron Mitchell. A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows […]
(8.6) Thelma get the scissors! I’ll get this out there right up front — I am not a fan of this movie. It’s been a while, but I remember it dragging on and on with boring interviews and lots of murky, backstage nothing-is-happening footage. It runs almost two hours and it’s interesting to note that,
[Screening moved to Friday, July 31, due to rain.] Speaking of the future, or lack thereof, fans of life on earth may want to read this item from Monday’s New York Times. It will give you all something to talk about while waiting for the sun to go down before Thursday’s Movies on the Block.
(6.11) Who booked this honeymoon? Attention budding cineastes, do not arrive late for tonight’s installment of Movies on the Block, the 1958 Orson Welles thriller “Touch of Evil” with its famous 3.5 minute opening sequence, a much-discussed tracking shot in film geek circles. The NYT reviewer raved about every aspect of Welles’ film-making achievement. Any
(9.6) This week’s installment of ‘Movies on the Block’ is the 1975 Jack Nicholson vehicle One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest directed by Milos Forman (Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Valmont). From Roger Ebert’s review; We meet a classic outsider — R.P. McMurphy, a quintessentially sane convict sent to the institution as a punishment