Coming Attractions, May 20, BACK TO BLACK & LA CHIMERA
MON MAY 20 - BACK TO BLACK @ 4:15 & 6:45
TUE MAY 21 - BACK TO BLACK @ 4:15 & 6:45
WED MAY 22 - BACK TO BLACK @ 4:15 & 6:45
THU MAY 23 - BACK TO BLACK @ 4:15 & 6:45
FRI MAY 24 - BACK TO BLACK @ 4:15 & LA CHIMERA @ 6:45
SAT & SUN MAY 25&26 - BACK TO BLACK @ 1:45, 4:15 & LA CHIMERA @ 6:45
MON-THU MAY 27-30 - BACK TO BLACK @ 1:45*, 4:15 & LA CHIMERA @ 6:45
Special added matinee for Memorial Day!!!
Somewhat a potpourri of data today. I suppose, like a lie-filled campaign promise, that I could blame it on my heavily wrapped right thumb, sliced yesterday by a single-edge razor blade as I cleaned the front door glass and thereby making it even harder to type with any degree of speed and/or accuracy, but I won’t. In writing this I recall one of my many mentors once saying that one should not apologize for the performance before actually preforming it. As in, “let the audience be the judge”. Dynamite advice, I consider, to this very day. That done, let's roll.
BACK TO BLACK challenges neither our perceptions of its subject nor the conventions of its genre, and is ultimately barely less tawdry than the paparazzi that hounded her to her grave. Its greatest offense is probably the failure to break free of biopic convention, although its not nearly as dire as detractors claim.
Could any film with almost a 90% audience score be so misunderstood? Could all the critics, every one of them, be so arrogant, stuffy and pompous to agree on its failure? Or is it something else? You be the judge.
LA CHIMERA
A genetic chimerism or chimera is a single organism composed of cells with more than one distinct genotype. In animals and human chimeras, this means an individual derived from two or more zygotes, which can include possessing blood cells of different blood types, and subtle variations in form.
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth -- in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.
The Times calls the film "wonderfully strange", while The Hollywood Reporter cited the changes in tone, film formats and aspect ratio, and levels of reality an "appealing looseness", and ScreenDaily adds that La Chimera "succeeds when it doesn’t worry too much about neatness and precision."
Last slice of potpourri pie today is the exciting news that ONCE AN ENEMY, Chapter Two is dropping immediately following the publishing of this weekly feature. And rightfully so, COMING ATTRACTIONS > ONCE AN ENEMY, looks and sounds better than its mirror image, or even backwards.
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