The Parkway Theater‘s Independent Minnesota series continues with another Patrick Coyle movie, Detective Fiction.
When a man turns to detective writing as an escape from his court-ordered sobriety, the line between reality and fiction blurs. Based on the director’s award-winning play of the same name.
September 10 – 17
Trailer
Hey, do you kids like Disturbed? Well, they’re featured in a new documentary playing in 13 cities, and Sound Unseen and 93X are co-presenting the Minneapolis screening at St. Anthony Main.
Friday, August 27
9:30 PM l FREE
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Azure Ray will be heading out on tour this Fall in support of a new album called Drawing Down The Moon, which is the duo’s first new release since 2003′s excellent Hold On Love. The album will be in stores September 14 but if you go to Saddle Creek’s website now you can get some pretty rad pre-order packages.
Now, is someone finally gonna press Azure Ray, Burn and Shiver, and the November EP on vinyl or do I have to do it myself?
Azure Ray 2010 Tour Dates:
10.10 – Orlando, FL – The Social
10.11 – Tallahasse, FL – Engine Room
10.15 – Houston, TX – Walters
with Tim Fite
10.16 – Dallas, TX – The Loft
10.17 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
10.20 – Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room
10.21 – San Diego, CA – The Loft
10.22 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
10.23 – Pomona, CA – Glasshouse
10.24 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
10.26 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
10.27 – Seattle, WA – Tract
10.29 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
10.30 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
11.01 – Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
11.03 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown
11.04 – Iowa City, IA – The Mill
11.05 – Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
11.06 – Chicago, IL – Schubas
11.08 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
11.09 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
11.10 – Toronto, ONT – Horseshoe Tavern
11.12 – Boston, MA – Harpers Ferry
11.13 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
11.14 – Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory
11.16 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
11.17 – Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel
11.18 – Carrboro, NC – Arts Center
11.19 – Athens, GA – 40 Watt
11.20 – Birmingham, AL – Bottletree
Drawing Down the Moon Album Trailer
Goddamn that’s a good looking package.
Everyone’s favorite metal band (except for indie-rock nerds who “only listen to Mastodon”) is set to release a box set of their Def/American discography on October 12. Containing all their full lengths from 1986′s Reign in Blood up to last year’s World Painted Blood the entire set will be housed in a… ya know what I’m feeling kinda lazy today… why don’t you just the press release for all the info.
Boosh!
American/Sony Legacy invested a great amount of care into making “The Vinyl Conflict”, treating the albums the way they would treat a great jazz, classical, Bob Dylan or Miles Davis record, something that isn’t normally done for metal records. All ten albums have been re-mastered from the original analog flat master tapes and were pressed on the highest quality, 180-gram audiophile vinyl at RTI, the most respected pressing plant in the U.S. and among the best in the world. Lacquers were cut and re-cut several times to ensure the highest sound quality. The individual vinyl discs will come in a standard, clear inner sleeve to preserve the vinyl, are then housed in high-quality litho-wrapped jackets, and then boxed in a hardcover slipcase. Additionally, reproductions of the original LP inner sleeve artwork were converted to 12X12 inserts.
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.
OTHER NOTABLE RELEASES
- Season 1.1 of Batman: Brave & the Bold
- Criterion’s Black Orpheus
- Anime remake of sorts, Casshern Sins
- Ricky Gervais’ straight-to-DVD Cemetery Junction
- Samuel Mockbee documentary Citizen Architect
- Anthony Hopkins indie drama The City of Your Final Destination
- Kitchy retro murder mystery Dark & Stormy Night
- Season 4 of Dexter
- Holocaust survivor documentary Four Seasons Lodge
- Season 4 of Friday Night Lights
- 70s sex comedy Gosh Alice Goodbody
- Criterion’s L’enfance Nue
- Probably unnecessary The Lost Skeleton Returns Again
- Season 2 of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Season 4 of Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends
- Tim Roth is Skellig: The Owl Man
- Nature sound recording documentary Soundtracker
- Spring Fever, from the director of Suzhou River
- Wolverine & the X-Men: Final Crisis Trilogy cartoon
The Good, the Bad, & the Weird – Trailer
The River is Life, documenting a 2,300 mile paddle down the Mississippi River, will play tomorrow on St. Paul’s Harriet Island.
A documentary film detailing the adventures of Phillip Hullquist and Ryan Jeannes as they paddle the entire length of the Mississippi River. This “heartwarming film showcases not only the majesty and wonder of America’s most recognizable waterway, but also the people that make this nation and this river so great.
Tuesday, August 17
8:30 PM l FREE
Trailer
A weekly look at the Minnesota concert calendar from your friends at Switchblade Comb. The full list can be viewed HERE.
Minnesota Shows List:
17 – George Thorogood & The Destroyers (MN Zoo)
17 – Airbourne (Target Center)
17 – Andy Kindler [Last Comic Standing] (Acme)
17 – Spacewolf (Cause)
18 – Andy Kindler [Last Comic Standing] (Acme)
18 – Faux Jean Crapshoot (Cause)
18 – The Fontanelles (501 Club)
19 – Tokyo Police Club + Freelance Whales (Varsity)
19 – G-Biz (Nomad)
19 – Blind Shake + STNNNG (Turf Club)
19 – Teenage Moods (Triple Rock)
19 – Roma Di Luna (Shoppes at Arbor Lakes – Maple Grove)
20 – Andy Kindler [Last Comic Standing] (Acme)
20 – Goddamn Doo Wop Band + The Slow Death + Bombay Sweets + Prairie Sons (Turf Club)
20 – Phil Lynott [Thin Lizzy] Birthday Celebration (Triple Rock)
20 – Bret Michaels [Poison] + Attention (Elko Speedway)
21 – Slayer + Megadeth + Testament (Roy Wilkins)
21 – Jerry Jeff Walker (MN Zoo)
21 – Blondie + Cheap Trick (Treasure Island Casino)
21 – Andy Kindler [Last Comic Standing] (Acme)
21 – The Evening Rig (Cause)
21 – Haley Bonar + Dark Dark Dark (331 Club)
21 – Cedric Burnside (Palmer’s)
21 – Heiruspecs (Red Stag Block Party)
The man who gave the single most extraordinary performance in the history of cinema is gone.
“Stroszek is a film very much built around Bruno. It reflected my own knowledge of him and his environment, his emotions and feelings, and also my deep affection for him . . . sometimes filmmaking is all about stylization, but with Stroszek we were dealing with real human suffering. This is not like the suffering you find in a theatre, acted out and turned into gross melodrama. With Bruno you always see true suffering on screen.”
- Werner Herzog
Thank you, Der Bruno.
The Best
Along with the Charlie Chaplin series and the Sound Unseen and JAZZ88 screenings, this is what to look forward to at the Trylon Microcinema this Fall.
Mel Brooks: The Orgasm of Insanity
09.03 – 05 – The Producers
09.10 – 12 – Blazing Saddles
09.10 – 12 – History of the World, Part I
09.17 – 19 – Silent Movie
09.17 – 19 - Spaceballs
09.24 – 26 – High Anxiety
09.24 – 26 - Young Frankenstein
Milestone’s 20th: Two Decades of Enduring Artistry
Celebrating 20 years of Milestone Films’ eclectic film restoration & distribution.
10.01 – 03 – I Am Cuba
10.09 – Orson Welles’ The Trial
10.09 – The Mystery of Picasso
10.15 – 17 – Rocco & His Brothers
10.16 – The Wild Blue Road
10.22 – 24 – Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
10.22 – 24 – People of the Wind
10.29 – 31 – My Brother’s Wedding
10.29 – 31 – Killer of Sheep
Special Programming
10.31 – Hausu
Bell Museum Movie Nights
Screenings at the Bell Museum resurrect at 7:00 PM on the 3rd Thursdays of every month.
09.16 – The Gleaners & I
10.21 – The Chances of the World Changing
11.18 – Seed Hunter
Trash Film Debauchery: Haunted Kung-Fu
09.22 – The Boxer’s Omen
10.27 – The Dead & the Deadly
11.24 – Haunted Cop Shop
Films coming soon to the Twin Cities area Landmark Theatres.
(CAPS=new additions)
AUGUST
20 - Life During Wartime (Uptown/Lagoon)
20 – Patrik, Age 1,5 (Lagoon)
20 – The Concert (Edina)
20 – The Dry Land(Edina)
27 – Animal Kingdom (Uptown)
27 – Centurion (Lagoon)
27 - Winnebago Man (Lagoon)
27 - Cairo Time (Edina)
SEPTEMBER
03 – Mesrine Pt 1: Killer Instinct (Uptown/Lagoon)
03 - Lebanon (Lagoon)
03 – Waking Sleeping Beauty(Lagoon)
03 - The Tillman Story (Lagoon)
03 – Mao’s Last Dancer (Edina)
10 – Mesrine Pt 2: Public Enemy #1(Uptown/Lagoon)
10 – Breathless: 50th Anniversary Restoration (Lagoon)
10 – I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix (Lagoon)
17 – Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Lagoon)
17 – Soul Kitchen (Lagoon)
24 – A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop (Uptown)
24 - Bran Nue Dae (Lagoon)
24 – Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, & Rebel (Lagoon)
24 – Heartbreaker (Edina)
24 - THE ROMANTICS (Edina)
OCTOBER
01 – Waiting For Superman (Uptown)
01 – Never Let Me Go (Lagoon)
01 – The Sicilian Girl (Lagoon)
01 – Jack Goes Boating (Edina)
08 – Freakonomics (Lagoon)
08 – IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (Lagoon)
08 – White Wedding (Lagoon)
08 – You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Edina)
15 – Howl (Lagoon)
15 – Tibet in Song (Lagoon)
22 – Last Train Home (Lagoon)
22 – STONE (Edina)
29 – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Uptown)
29 – Douchebag (Lagoon)
NOVEMBER
05 – MONSTERS (Uptown)
05 – Vision (Lagoon)
12 – Waste Land (Lagoon)
26 – MY DOG TULIP (Lagoon)
DECEMBER
03 – MARWENCOL (Lagoon)
After broadcasters alledgedly banned it from Minnesota television for being too controversial, The Second Fraud: a Ponzipalooa will screen theatrically at the Uptown Theatre with a panel discussion afterward.
The Second Fraud sheds light on how local Minneapolis businessman Tom Petters defrauded investors that led to America’s first billion dollar Ponzi Scheme, but is focused on the botched and questionable deterioration of Petters’ legitimate organizations as they were liquidated as a means of paying the professionals dismantling the Petters Empire.
RSVP at www.thesecondfraud.com for free passes.
Wednesday, Aug. 25
7:00 PM
Yes. Come on, folks. Make this a new cult classic.
Presented by the Onion’s A.V. Club.
Friday, November 12
Midnight l $9
