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Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements
Jan 26 to Feb 1
Thursday to Wednesday 5:00, 9:00
Dir. Gorman Bechard - 2011 - 123m
With COLOR ME OBSESSED, the first documentary on the influential '80s indie-rock band, The Replacements, director Gorman Bechard brings an extraordinary vision to a unique filmmaking challenge. Told through the eyes of fans, friends, and contemporaries, the film breaks from the traditional music documentary format of music and performances. “Not wanting to make a VH1/where-are-they-now style documentary, I decided to present the band in a more iconic way,” the director explains. “I thought, people believe in God without seeing or hearing him but rather through the passion, faith, and stories of others. After watching COLOR ME OBSESSED, I’m pretty sure music fans will believe in The Replacements in much the same way.”
Telling the band’s story was a project close to the heart for Bechard. Like many who were weaned on punk music he latched onto this brash young Minneapolis band with fervor. Dubbed “the last best band” by Spin Magazine, their live shows could be miraculous or downright disasters. Their fans, unwaveringly faithful. As critic’s darlings, their albums were wrought with angry guitars and passionate well-written lyrics that hinted at potential commercial success. Yet, somehow, the band managed to continually shoot themselves in the foot. Their relative obscurity was a motivating factor in presenting their story on film. “The Replacements should have been the next Rolling Stones,” Bechard says, “And to the people who loved them, I think they were.”
Combining over 140 interviews with rockers (Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, Craig Finn of The Hold Steady, Tommy Ramone, Grant Hart and Greg Norton of Husker Du, all three members of Goo Goo Dolls), journalists (Robert Christgau, Legs McNeil, Ira Robbins, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis), and fans both famous (Tom Arnold, Dave Foley, George Wendt) and not, Bechard delivers the obsessive tale of the most influential band you've never heard of, to many the greatest rock band of all time, The Replacements. And though containing not a note of their music, COLOR ME OBSESSED is a documentary that really rocks.
Dragonslayer
Jan 26 to Jan 29
Thursday to Sunday 3:00, 7:20
Dir. Tristan Patterson - 2011 - 74m
Directed by Tristan Patterson and executive produced by indie-maverick Christine Vachon, DRAGONSLAYER is the Grand Jury Prize Winner for Best Documentary at SXSW 2011 and the second feature film to be released theatrically by Drag City Records following Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers.
An intimate vérité portrait of the life and times of Josh “Skreech” Sandoval, a 23-year-old skate legend from the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton, California, DRAGONSLAYER takes the viewer through a golden SoCal haze of lost youth, broken homes and abandoned swimming pools, set to a soundtrack of bands from indie-rock labels Mexican Summer and Kemado Records-including Best Coast, Bipolar Bear, Children, Dungen, Jacuzzi Boys, Little Girls and The Soft Pack—as well as Death and Thee Oh Sees.
“The measured vérité style of Frederick Wiseman meets the visual polish of Terrence Malick… Departing from the conventions of documentary portraiture, “Dragonslayer” delivers the cinematic equivalent of punk rock candy.” – Eric Kohn, indieWIRE
Related: ‘Critical Consensus: Skater Doc “Dragonslayer” Is The Pick of the Week’ – Peter Knegt, indieWIRE
“Alternately dreamy and abrasive, Dragonslayer is a submersion in an endless summer subculture…Patterson’s one-of-a-kind hybrid captures a socio-historical moment with the kind of charged authenticity that only comes from a willingness to embrace contradictions: It’s discursive and hypnotic, laconic and urgent.” – Karina Longworth, Village Voice
“Dragonslayer is the Donnie Darko of documentaries: cogent and atmospheric, charismatic and elliptical, shot with a beery, stale amber warmth.” – Paper Mag
“Straggly but earnest…a very odd yet stirring bit of non-fiction tragedy.” – Glenn Heath Jr., The L Magazine
The Three Worlds of Gulliver
Jan 28 to Jan 29
Saturday to Sunday 11 a.m., 1pm
Dir. Jack Sher - 1960 - 100m - MOM'S MATINEE CONTINUES WITH FANTASTIC WORLDS OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN - All Seats $5
Imaginative special effects by the legendary Ray Harryhausen are the highlights of this adaptation of Jonathan Swift's classic fantasy novel. Kerwin Mathews, who rose to fame after appearing opposite Harryhausen's "Superdynamation" effects in The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), stars as the English Dr. Gulliver, whose travels bring him in contact with both the diminutive Lilliputians and the gigantic Brobdingnagians. Featuring a rousing Bernard Herrmann score too.
