Donald Glover, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong are on fire. For the last few months Community has been the best comedy on television. Kudos to the writers of the show.
(P.S., Joel McHale will be at Mystic Lake on May 11.)
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Senor Chang
Here’s Tim Barry performing a new song making fun of, well… pretty much everyone, and it’s awesome.
The lottery line at Fine Foods is three blocks long
And his son’s selling PBR to hipsters with ironic mustaches
Who most definitely once were punk but now wear flannel
And scream over bar chords on acoustic guitars
Looks pretty trippy. Director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective will be at the screening.
Saturday, March 20
Cedar Cultural Center
7 PM & 9 PM | $15
Buy your tickets HERE (7PM) and HERE (9PM).
Trailer
The Final Sacrifice! Finally!
With the shocking inclusion of not one, but two, of the episodes most requested by MSTies around the globe, Mystery Science Theater: XVII promises to be a comedic tour de force to be reckoned with! Films Include: The Crawling Eye, The Beatniks, The Final Sacrifice & Blood Waters Of Dr. Z
OTHER NOTABLE RELEASES
- Season 2 of Breaking Bad
- David Foster Wallace adaptation Brief Interviews w/ Hideous Men
- Pedro Almodovar’s decent Broken Embraces
- History Channel’s Clash of the Gods
- 70s action Death Journey
- Criterion’s Dillinger is Dead
- Won Kar Wai’s Fallen Angels on Blu-Ray
- Box 3 of the great anime Honey & Clover
- Disney’s great The Princess & the Frog
- 70s New Orleans film Quadroon: Black Mandingo
- Season 13 of South Park
- White Stripes doc Under the Great White Northern Lights
- Matthew Broderick in Wonderful World
The Best of MST3K’s The Final Sacrifice
The 2010 Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival is scheduled for April 15 through the 30th, and they just started announcing their line-up! The first, Gods (Dioses), is part of the Global Lens series.
A wealthy industrialist’s working-class fiancée plunges into the extravagance of her lavish new life as her future stepchildren self-destruct in a series of desperate attempts to escape their privileged upbringing.
Dioses – Trailer
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Buy Here:
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There are also copies available at the Electric Fetus for $15.
A weekly look at the Minnesota concert calendar from your friends at Switchblade Comb. The full list can be viewed HERE.
Minnesota Shows List:
15 – RJD2 (Triple Rock)
15 – Ted Leo and the Pharmasists (First Ave)
15 – Field Music + The Clientele (Cedar Cultural Center)
16 – The Appleseed Cast (Triple Rock)
17 – Norah Jones (The O’Shaughnessy)
17 – Experience Hendrix (Orpheum)
18 – The Big Pink + A Place to Bury Strangers (First Ave)
19 – The Soviettes [CD Release] (Turf Club)
19 – Mike Doughty [Soul Coughing] (Dakota Jazz Club)
20 – Mike Doughty [Soul Coughing] (Dakota Jazz Club)
21 – Alice in Chains (Roy Wilkins)
21 – Cowboy Junkies [2 shows] (Dakota Jazz Club)
21 – Scout Niblett (Turf Club)
21 – Tapes ‘N Tapes + Vampire Hands (7th St)
Via his blog:
Our new album “White Crosses” leaked. No drama. For those of you who have heard it and would like to read the lyrics, here you go!
What a rad dude.
This year’s Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival will run from April 8th to the 18th, and includes the fantastic looking Mary & Max and the rather great not-quite-mumblecore Breaking Upwards. Not much info yet, but the film list announced so far;
- A Matter of Size
- Mary and Max
- Off and Running
- Protektor
- Wrong Side of the Bus
- Stumbling Stone (Stolperstein)
- City of Borders
- Dealer Among Dealers
- Killing Kasztner
- Lonely Man of Faith: The Life and Legacy of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
- Inside Hana’s Suitcase
- The Wedding Song
- The Worst Company in the World
- Breaking Upwards
- The Jass Baroness
- My Fuhrer: The Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler
- Bewoket: By the Will of God
Participating venues are Sabes JCC, Willow Creek Theatre, Hopkins Cinema 6, the Walker Art Center, and the Oak Street Cinema.
For more information, check HERE.
Friday, April 30
7:30pm l $37.50 – $45
What’s that? Conan sold out in two minutes? Well, how about this?
View “SheWearsYourTee.com (Part 1 of 3)” here.
View “SheWearsYourTee.com (Part 2 of 3)” here.
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Our epic three part adventure has come to a fairly undramatic end. In the past month, my twitter followers have risen by six, my youtube videos have garnered 895 views, and I’ve sold one T-shirt. From these figures we can conclude that even though Tanaya Henry looks really hot wearing my shirt, it’s gonna take more than that to jump start my business. How much does it cost to hire a skywriter?
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities will be hosting numerous documentary film events the next two months, including Water for Mulobere, whose trailer is above.
Water For Mulobere
Tuesday, April 27
Coffman Memorial Union Theater
6:30 PM l FREE
This show will also feature a performance by the Hayor Bibimma African Dance Company and a filmmaker & student Q&A.
This past summer, a team of up-and-coming engineers helped bring clean drinking water to an African village. As part of an Engineers Without Borders project, the University of Minnesota student group implemented a solar-powered water supply system for an entire school and its surrounding community in Mulobere, Uganda. And Beth Anderson, the Institute on the Environment’s video producer, was there to capture the story on video.
There will also be two Minnesota documentary filmmakers on-hand as speakers at the University.
Ali Selim: Writer and Director of Sweet Land
Tuesday, March 30
275 Nicholson Hall
5:00 PM l FREE
There will also be a screening of Sweet Land beforehand at 2:45.
Ali Selim is the writer and director of the critically acclaimed independent film Sweet Land. He spent many years as a successful advertising commercial director before he began his film career. Selim has won multiple awards for his work in advertising, television, and film.
Melody Gilbert, Documentary Filmmaker
Tuesday, April 12
30 Nicholson Hall
6:00 PM l FREE
Melody Gilbert has been named by the Documentary Channel as “one of the most fearless filmmakers in contemporary documentary cinema.”
