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recommended boston area events

saturday, march 13th

butch walker & the black widows

will dailey

@ the paradise


sunday, march 14th

a special screening of the

white stripes tour documentary

"under the great white northern lights"

free admission / prize pack drawing

10pm @ the otherside cafe


sunday, march 14th

carbon leaf

@ the paradise


monday, march 15th

one happy island

standard fare

summer cats

@ great scott


monday, march 15th

letting up despite great faults

the brother kite

plumerai

singing bridges

@ the middle east upstairs


tuesday, march 16th

bacchus king

croquet

cathy cathodic

the ugly fucklings

@ the middle east upstairs


wednesday, march 17th

joanna newsom

@ the sanders theatre, harvard


wednesday, march 17th

henry rollins (spoken word)

@ the somerville theatre


thursday, march 18th

apollo sunshine

drug rug

@ the paradise


friday, march 19th

i, pistol

mascara

planetoid

forgetful jones

@ tt the bears


saturday, march 20th

the whitehaus family blastfest

needy visions, manners,

morgan shaker, avi jacob,

and many more

@ cambridge ymca theatre


saturday, march 20th

air

am

@ berklee performance center


sunday, march 21st

the clientele

field music

@ great scott


thursday, march 25th

"thursday night alright!" with

the beatings

aloud

action camp

hello ninja

@ great scott


thursday, march 25th

the donnas

@ the paradise


friday, march 26th

eldridge rodriguez (the beatings)

ryan lee crosby

ted billings (age rings/hot protestants)

@ the somerville armory


friday, march 26th

basia bulat

marissa nadler

lady lamb the beekeeper

@ tt the bears


saturday, march 27th

your say party! we say die!

the new collisions

static of the gods (cd release)

@ tt the bears


saturday, march 27th

the big pink

a place to bury strangers

magic magic

@ the paradise


saturday, march 27th

spoon

deerhunter

@ the house of blues


sunday, march 28th

beach house

bachelorette

@ the paradise


monday, march 29th

the soft pack

nodzzz

beaters

@ great scott


tuesday, march 30th

shearwater

wye oak

hospital ships

@ tt the bears


tuesday, march 30th

manchester orchestra

the features

biffy clyro

o'brother

@ the paradise


wednesday, march 31st

japandroids

love is all

girlfriends

@ the middle east downstairs


wednesday, march 31st

miike snow

delorean

@ the paradise


wednesday, march 31st

a sunny day in glasgow

pants yell!

bearstronaut

@ great scott


thursday, april 1st

girls

dum dum girls

@ the paradise


friday, april 2nd

the xx

jj (late show only)

two shows @ the paradise


friday, april 2nd

drive-by truckers

lucero

langhorne slim

@ the house of blues


saturday, april 3rd

cassavettes

the grownup noise

kingsley flood (cd release)

spouse

@ the middle east upstairs


saturday, april 3rd

black rebel motorcycle club

alberta cross

@ the house of blues


saturday, april 3rd

nada surf

dawn landes & the hounds

@ the paradise


sunday, april 4th

serena maneesh

depreciation guild

black fortress of opium

@ tt the bears


tuesday, april 6th

wilco

@ the orpheum


tuesday, april 6th

ben fold & a piano

kate miller-heidke

@ the house of blues


wednesday, april 7th

florence & the machine

@ the paradise


wednesday, april 7th

rocky votolato

brooke waggoner

@ great scott


thursday, april 8th

faces on film

hands & knees

st. claire (cd release!)

mr. sister

@ tt the bears


thursday, april 8th

thom yorke + atoms for peace

flying lotus

@ the citi/wang theatre


friday, april 9th

midlake

@ the paradise


saturday, april 10th

xiu xiu

tune-yards

@ the middle east downstairs


saturday, april 10th

ted leo & the pharmacists

obits

screaming females

@ the paradise


saturday, april 10th

pissed jeans

confines

sqrm

@ great scott


sunday, april 11th

fanfarlo

lawrence arabia

robert francis

@ the paradise


monday, april 12th

the wedding present

play their 1989 lp 'bizarro'

with openers girl in a coma

@ the middle east downstairs


monday, april 12th

titus andronicus

the babies

@ great scott


thursday, april 15th

jakob dylan with guests

neko case + kelly hogan

@ the wilbur theatre


thursday, april 15th

red sparowes

doomriders

@ the middle east downstairs


friday, april 16th

have nots (vinyl release!)

the appreciation post

razors in the night

wicked whiskey

the swaggerin growlers

@ tt the bears


saturday, april 17th

kaki king

an horse

@ the middle east downstairs


saturday, april 17th

the morning benders

miniature tigers

@ tt the bears


sunday, april 18th

heavy trash (w/jon spencer)

the konks

the cobra-matics

@ tt the bears


sunday, april 18th

the thermals

past lives

@ the middle east downstairs


monday, april 19th

trans am

@ the middle east downstairs


tuesday, april 20th

owen pallett (aka final fantasy)

@ the ica boston


tuesday, april 20th

elvis costello & the sugarcanes

@ the orpheum


tuesday, april 20th

the low anthem

timber timbre

@ the paradise


tuesday, april 20th

quasi

let's wrestle

@ the middle east downstairs


wednesday, april 21st

the church

special 30th anniversary

acoustic career retrospective

@ the somerville armory


wednesday, april 21st through

wednesday, april 28th

the 8th annual independent

film festival of boston

@ various boston area theatres

including the somerville + brattle


thursday, april 22nd

the mary onettes

@ great scott


saturday, april 24th

los campesinos!

here we go magic

@ the paradise


sunday, april 25th

harlem

@ the great scott


monday, april 26th

echo + the bunneymen

hatcham social

@ the paradise


wednesday, april 28th

gogol bordello

devotchka

jesse malin

st. mark's social

@ the house of blues


thursday, april 29th

frightened rabbit

@ the paradise


friday, april 30th

the everyday visuals

the lights out

the flying machines

aloud

@ tt the bears


friday, april 30th

corinne bailey ray

@ the house of blues


friday, april 30th

the album leaf

sea wolf

@ the paradise


wednesday, april 28th

little boots

dragonette

fan death

@ the middle east downstairs


saturday, may 1st

white rabbits

here we go magic

@ the paradise


monday, may 3rd

yeasayer

sleigh bells

@ the paradise


tuesday, may 4th

gregory & the hawk

lady lamb the beekeeper

@ tt the bears


tuesday & wednesday

may 4th & 5th

public image ltd.

@ the royale (formerly the roxy)


wednesday & thursday

may 5th & 6th

jonsi (from sigur ros)

@ the house of blues


thursday, may 6th

shout out louds

@ the paradise


friday, may 7th

ok go

earl greyhound

robert francis

@ the paradise


saturday, may 8th

local natives

@ great scott


tuesday & wednesday

may 11th & 12th

dr. dog

deer tick

@ the paradise


thursday, may 13th

small brown bike

bridge and tunnel

your skull my closet

wallcreeper

@ great scott


saturday, may 22nd

killing joke

@ the paradise


tuesday, may 18th

spectrum (featuring sonic boom

from spacemen 3 + e.a.r.)

with the broken river prophet

@ the middle east upstairs


tuesday, may 25th

the smittens

allo darlin'

one happy island

hearts!attack

a smile and a ribbon

horowitz

@ the lizard lounge


wednesday, may 26th

reverend horton heat

cracker

miss derringer

@ the house of blues


friday, may 28th

mono

the twilight sad

@ the middle east downstairs


wednesday, june 2nd

kings of convenience

franklin for short

@ the paradise


wednesday, june 2nd

ryan bingham & the dead horses

@ tt the bears


wednesday & thursday

june 2nd & 3rd

the national

@ the house of blues


friday, june 4th

brian jonestown massacre

@ the paradise


friday, june 18th

reigning sound

movers & shakers

triplethick

@ tt the bears


saturday, june 19th

james taylor

carole king

@ the garden


sunday + monday

june 20th + 21st

isis

melvins

totimoshi

@ the paradise


thursday + saturday

august 19th + 21st

tom petty + the heartbreakers

my morning jacket

@ the comcast center


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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

The 2005 Boston Film Festival

Even though the 2005 Boston Film Festival starts this Friday, the website still isn't fully updated. Fortunately, the full lineup finally appeared online a few days ago, and tickets just went on sale.

It runs through Tuesday the 13th, and while it may be the 21st annual edition, this year's schedule feels a tad thinner than recent ones. Maybe I'm just spoiled by the ever-increasing excellence of the springtime IFFBoston, or how good last years 20th anniversary fest was, but choosing from 17 feature-length films over five days underwhelms, and none of them really jump out and grab me yet. In past years I've been excited about the guest of honor, an actor or director who receives the "Film Excellence Award". It's recently been presented to Steve Martin, William H. Macy, and Kevin Spacey. This year? It looks like it goes to director Ben Younger... for directing Boiler Room and Prime? Hmmm. Would make a little more sense if it was going to Prime's Meryl Streep, so maybe Younger is accepting it for her. (and, of course, I reserve the right to edit this if that's the case).

Maybe I'll be more psyched up for the fest after I see a couple films that interest me, like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or Four Lane Highway, Swimmers or North Country. There's a bunch of interesting documentaries on tap, too, and I may check out Buddy or Casting About.

Locally-produced independent film Touched, will open this year's fest on Friday, Sept. 9 at 8pm at Loews Theatres Boston Common (where the entire event is taking place). Director (and Newton native) Tim Bogart and star Jenna Elfman will take questions after the screening. Randall Batinkoff, Samantha Mathis, Diane Venora, and Bruce Davison round out the cast.

A new award for Best Documentary will be presented this year, and it'll be named in honor of the late David Brudnoy, who passed away last December. Beloved around New England, Brudnoy was founder of The Boston Society of Film Critics, chief movie critic for The Tab newspapers for more than two decades, an extremely popular and successful radio talk-show-host, and a professor at Boston University. (update 9/8: The first ever award will go to Buddy, about former Providence, RI Mayor Buddy Cianci.)

Other films that will be showing at the 2005 Boston Film Festival:
"Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" (Boston debut)
Directed by Shane Black (who will be at the screening)
Starring Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jr., & Michelle Monaghan

"North Country" (Boston debut)
directed by Niki Caro
starring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek, & Sean Bean

"Rex Trailor's Boomtown"
A documentary from director Michael Bavaro

"Wannabe"
Director: Richard Keith (appearing at the screening)

"Four Lane Highway"
Director: Dylan McCormick (appearing at the screening)

"A Previous Engagement"
Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin

"A Thousand Roads"
Director: Chris Eyre (appearing at the screening)

"When Do We Eat?"
Director: Salvador Litvak (appearing at the screening)
Starring: Michael Lerner, Lesley Ann Warren, Jack Klugman, Ben Feldman, Shiri Appleby, Adam Lamberg, Max Greenfield, Cynda Williams, Meredith Scott Lynn

"Love, Ludlow"
Director: Adrienne Weiss (appearing at the screening)
Starring: Alicia Goranson, Andrea Maulella, Brendon Sexton III

"Swimmers"
Director: Doug Sadler (appearing at the screening)

"Closed on Sundays"
A documentary directed by Rudi Schwab, which premiered earlier this year at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
Executive Producer Eran Lobel will do a Q&A after the screening

"Prime"
Directed by Ben Younger
starring Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg, & Meryl Streep

"Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits"
Directed by and starring Soprano's cast member John Fiore, who will be appearing at the screening with other cast members

"Casting About"
A documentary by Concord filmmaker Barry Hershey (appearing at the screening)

"Buddy"
From Rhode Island filmmaker Cherry Arnold (appearing at the screening)
A documentary about former Providence, RI Mayor Buddy Cianci.

There's also a bunch of short films, showing in two blocks:

Short Program #1:
Winning The Peace
Live At Five
String Of The Kite
Locked In

Short Program #2:
The Malt Shop In The Sky
Man Of The House
O.C.D.
Ladies In Waiting
It's very cool that nearly all of this year's screenings feature Q&A sessions with filmmakers, definitely a higher proportion of them than past years.

You can download a full .pdf file with dates and descriptions right here, and to buy advance tickets online, head to Fandango. Adult tix are $10 plus a $1 service charge. I just grabbed a couple for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which I'm betting will sell out first.


Post-script to a post: I occasionally feel like I've got some kind of weird blog-based sympatico thing going on with Frank and his Toronto-based Chromewaves. More than once I've got a subject in my draft folder that he covers (mo' fully, of course) the very same day. He'll write something reflecting my exact thoughts on a band (like his recent DCFC post), or mention the Toronto stop of a Boston rock show that I'm excited about. He's got my comic-book obsession covered, shares my long-standing Richard Thompson love, and hell, he named his site after one of my favorite Ride songs.

And so last week I start to write-up this here post about the impending Boston Film Fest, and the daily Chromewaves missive appears in my RSS reader... previewing the Toronto Int'l Film Festival, of course. I stand in CW's ever-present shadow. And it's a fine place to be.

But If I ever start posting something new every single damn day, you'll know that I've either been cloned or lost my job...

(And, of course, I wrote that last bit before I found out Frank actually just lost his. Sorry 'bout that, chief.)












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