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They’ll be opening the previously mentioned Morning Benders show.

Thursday, October 28
Varsity Theater
8 PM | $15 | 18+

Cinema Revolution Society‘s third annual Dance Film Project will take place at the Southern Theater in December in two programs each night. There are also tentative plans to have a Dance Film retrospective, which has yet to nab a concrete date.

Friday, Dec. 17 & Saturday, Dec. 18
7:00 & 9:00 PM l TBA

Not much info just yet, but keep checking back over HERE.

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How did we go 12 hours without posting this? Sorry folks, Switchblade Comb sometimes fails at the internet.

The 11th annual Sound Unseen Festival takes place in October, featuring twelve music-on-films at the Southern Theater, Red Stag Supperclub, and Trylon Microcinema.

10.07 – The Agony & the Ecstacy of Phil Spector (Southern)
10.07 – Wheedle’s Groove (Trylon)

10.08 – Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn (Red Stag)
10.08 - Ride Rise Roar (Southern)
10.08 – The Carter (Trylon)
10.08 – This Movie is Broken (Trylon)

10.09 – Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everyone Talkin’ About Him)? (Southern)
10.09 - Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy (Trylon)
10.09 – Do It Again (Trylon)
10.09 – Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (Trylon)
10.09 – TBA Special Screening

10.10 – The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Trylon)

For more info, check HERE.

A mish-mash of genres that tells the story of how a forgotten rock song saves the world from ultimate destruction, Fish Story is easily one of the best Japanese films in years.

I figured that it would be quite a long time before it officially hit North American shores, but hey, it’s certainly nice to be wrong about this – while there’s yet to be a planned DVD, the film just popped up on Netflix: Instant Watch. If you have the service, be sure to check it out.

*UPDATE* Or not. It appears that Netflix links to the wrong film. Hopefully this will be fixed.

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Sure, The Last Exorcism has problems. Every film of this type since Blair Witch Project has struggled with providing exposition in a realistic-sounding manner, and they always bring up the same “blah blah turn the camera off” crap. But still, this is so much fun, it’s ridiculous.

A post-Paranormal Activity work merely on the surface, the film exceeds by providing a neat, slow-burn horror mystery that turns in different directions than what you might expect. Unless you expect one amazing exorcism scene, because yeah, that’s here. And where it all heads – I can’t even begin to start giving anything away, but it pulls up one particular horror trope that’s been grossly underutilized for decades, and any movie that plays that card instantly wins me over.

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To support their upcoming To All My Friends Tour and to hold you over until their next official album Atmosphere is releasing a double EP full of brand new material titled To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EPs. The Atmosphere EPs will be available digitally through iTunes & Amazon September 7th (the day before the To All My Friends Tour starts) with CD copies of The Atmosphere EPs sold exclusively on tour and through Fifth Element.

(Peace to Midwest Broadcast for the heads up.)
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Rhymesayers also released the second track, “Freefallin’” from the To All My Friends EP below.

MP3: Atmosphere – “Freefallin’”

Single of the year in my opinion.

From The Lady Killer, due out December 7.

The Exorcist, in an extended director’s cut edition, will screen for one night only across the country thanks to Fathom. I never considered this nearly as good as Exorcist III and the director’s cut kind of ruins parts of the film, but the big screen treatment should be nice and will also feature never-before-seen, on-set footage.

Thursday, Sept. 30

Participating Twin Cities Theaters
Eagan 16
Eden Prairie 18
Arbor Lakes Megastar 16
Brooklyn Center 20
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Rosedale 14
Southdale 16

For more info, check HERE.

Anton Corbijn’s The American probably shouldn’t have worked. The main characters are an assassin, a priest, and a prostitute. That sounds ridiculously conventional, which is cause for a little worry – despite some great cinematography, it was the conventional biopic approach of Corbijn’s Control that bogged that feature debut down.

Thankfully, Corbijn appears to have realized that a pretty movie will only get you so far. Alongside fantastic cinematography is heavy atmosphere and light dialogue, with reliance on visuals to tell a streamlined, ambiguous story. There are moments when an actual, traditional plot starts to form, but even then the style is unique enough to not feel worn out. The American can be placed nicely alongside Le Samourai, The Hit, and Limits of Control as an engaging, introspective character study of a genre usually focused on action thrills . . .

It now occurs to me that maybe that style is its own genre in and of itself, which would make The American very conventional in a sense. Maybe using conventions and the lack thereof as an argument centerpiece isn’t the best way to go about things. But anyway . . . hey look, that poster is awesome.

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Just in time for back-to-school: St. Anthony Main will be showing Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure for a whole week with a discounted ticket price.

Bill Preston and Ted Logan are two totally excellent dudes facing one most heinous history exam. With the help of Rufus an ultra-cool messenger in a time traveling phone booth, the triumphant twosome bag a bevy of historical heavy weights like the “Bodacious Philosopher Socrates, “One Very Excellent Barbarian” Genghis Khan, the “Short Dead Dude” Napoleon and Noah’s Wife Joan of Arc to stage the most hysterical high school project ever.

Friday, Sept. 10 – Thursday, Sept. 16
9:30 PM l $4

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(thanks Jim)