Purple Rain plays tomorrow night (Saturday, September 6) at the Uptown Theatre. Doors are at 11:55 pm. Switchblade Comb has five pairs of tickets to give away. Shoot me an email with the subject “Purple Rain.” I’ll randomly pick the winners at noon tomorrow.
Written and directed by: David Mackenzie (Young Adam)
Starring: Jaime Bell (Billy Elliot), Claire Forlani (Mallrats), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting)
The seventeen year-old Hallam Foe is a weird teenager that misses his mother, who committed suicide, drowning in a lake nearby their house in Edinburgh after an overdose of sleeping pills. Hallam spends his spare time peeping at the locals and blames his stepmother Verity Foe, accusing her of killing his mother. After a discussion with his father Julius Foe, Hallam sneaks out from his house and travels to Edinburgh, where he sees Kate Breck and becomes obsessed with her because of her resemblance to his mother. Kate hires Hallam to work in the kitchen of the hotel where she works and they have a strange romance, while Hallam reaches his maturity the hardest way.
Hipster alert. Cute drawings and music by Domino Record’s Orange Juice “Blue Boy” and U.N.P.O.C. “Here on My Own” featured in the trailer. This looks like a cool film and I’m glad it’s been moved from the Edina Cinema to the Uptown Theatre. Scheduled to open in Minneapolis on October 10.
King Khan & BBQ Show - 2008 Tour Dates:
10.27 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
10.29 - Oberlin, OH - Dionysus Disco
10.30 - Gambier, OH - Horn Gallery
10.31 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge
11.01 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club
11.02 - Omaha, NE - Waiting Room
11.03 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
11.04 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
11.06 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
11.07 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
11.08 - Portland, OR - Dante’s
11.09 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
11.10 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo
11.11 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
11.12 - Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room
11.14 - Dallas, TX - Palladium Loft
11.15 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk
11.17 - Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
11.18 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
11.19 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone Café
11.20 - Nashville, TN - Exit In
11.21 - Atlanta, GA - Lenny’s
11.22 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
11.25 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle Tavern
11.26 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar
11.28 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
11.29 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
11.30 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
12.01 - Boston, MA - Paradise
The King Khan & BBQ Show - “Why Don’t You Lie”
“Short Documentary about No Idea Records which is run out of Gainesville Florida. The documentary was produced by students of Full Sail University in Orlando Florida.”
Notice that No Idea started out as a zine and then morphed into a record label to showcase local music. Hint hint.
Films coming soon to the Twin Cities area Landmark Theatres.
September:
12 - Bab’Aziz (Uptown)
12 - In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Lagoon)
12 - Burn After Reading (Lagoon)
12 - The Women (Edina)
19 - Battle in Seattle (Uptown)
19 - I Served the King of England (Lagoon)
19 - Trouble the Water (Lagoon)
26 - The Duchess (Uptown)
26 - Choke (Lagoon)
26 - What We Do is Secret (Lagoon)
26 - Towelhead (Edina)
October:
03 - Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (Uptown or Lagoon)
03 - Allah Made Me Funny (Lagoon)
03 - Appaloosa (Lagoon)
03 - A Girl Cut in Two (Lagoon)
03 - Religulous (Edina)
10 - Mister Foe (Uptown)
10 - Beauty in Trouble (Lagoon)
17 - Rachel Getting Married (Uptown or Edina)
17 - W. (Lagoon)
17 - The Pool (Lagoon)
17 - What Just Happened (Edina)
24 - Filth and Wisdom (Lagoon)
31 - Changeling (Lagoon)
November:
07 - Synecdoche, New York (Uptown)
07 - A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Lagoon)
07 - I Loved You So Long (Edina)
14 - Fear(s) of the Dark (Lagoon)
21 - Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed… (Lagoon)
21 - A Christmas Tale (Edina)
28 - Ashes of Time Redux (Lagoon)
December:
05 - My Name is Bruce (Uptown)
Speaking of Bruce Campbell, we got the new midnight movie list for the Uptown Theatre. We were pushing hard to get a print of Evil Dead 2 for October and succeeded.
All films are on a Saturday night. $9 with doors opening at 11:55pm and the movie starting as soon as we get everyone inside.
Previously Announced Midnight Movie Schedule:
09.06 - Purple Rain
09.13 - Showgirls
09.20 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
09.27 - Ghost World
10.04 - Nightmare on Elm Street
Upcoming Midnight Movie Schedule:
10.11 - Evil Dead 2
10.18 - The Midnight Meat Train
10.25 - Nightmare on Elm Street 3
11.01 - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
11.08 - Harold & Maude
For all of these films we are looking for any bands that would be interested in playing a 20-30 minute set before the film. Send me an email if you’re interested: mojo@switchbladecomb.com
Evil Dead 2 - Trailer
Update: We couldn’t have My Name is Bruce homeless in Minneapolis so I got it booked at the Uptown Theatre exclusively for one week only. Starts Friday, December 5th.
To follow up the My Name is Bruce poster, it looks like Bruce Campbell will be touring with the film around the country. Most theaters haven’t been announced just yet, but since it has a whole weekend in the Twin Cities, I’m wondering if the Oak Street might open their doors for those days, as Bruce has shown up there previously. We’ll keep you updated.
10.26 - Austin, TX - Alamo Drafthouse
10.31-11.02: New York City - Sunshine Cinema
11.05 - Philadelphia, PA
11.07 - Boston, MA
11.09 - Hartford, CT
11.12 - New Haven, CT
11.14 - Baltimore, MD
11.15 - Washington D.C.
11.19 - Columbus, OH
11.20 - Toledo, OH
11.21-23 - Detroit, MI
11.28-30 - Chicago, IL
12.03 - Madison, WI
12.05-11 - Minneapolis, MN
12.12 - Seattle, WA
12.13-14 - Portland, OR
12.15 - Medford, OR
12.17 - San Francisco, CA
12.18 - Berkeley, CA
12.19-21 - Los Angeles, CA
My Name is Bruce - Trailer
Director: Neil Burger (The Illusionist)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams, Michael Pena
After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole (Michael Pena) is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancé. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheever (Tim Robbins), an older family man who longs to return to his wife in St. Louis, and Colee (Rachel McAdams), a naive private who’s pinned her hopes on connecting with a dead fellow soldier’s family. What begins as a short trip unexpectedly evolves into a longer journey. Forced to grapple with old relationships, broken hopes and a country divided over the war, TK, Cheever and Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered, and that the unlikely companionship they’ve found might be what matters the most.
The Lucky Ones is set to be released on September 26.
Watch Russell be hilariously creepy later on at the 5:00 mark HERE.
This news has me “touching the sky!” Nah Right via DJ Semtex is saying Kanye will be dropping his fourth record in December. The first single “Love LockDown” is rumored to be dropping “very soon.” December also happens to be when Jay-Z is supposed to release The Blueprint III. Should be an interesting (friendly) battle to see who sells more albums.
Kanye West - “Touch the Sky”
The previously reported Happy Medium show this Friday at Station 4 recently had lungs. drop off the bill, but the replacement is local prolific circuit-bending duo Beatrix*JAR. Since JAR helped on the soundtrack to the 2006 local film The Romantics, the show still has quite a few ties to the local film scene. As of this time, The Southtown Avengers and Missed Opportunity are still scheduled to also appear.
Happy Medium (& Co.)
Friday, September 5
Station 4
St. Paul, MN
8 PM
Beatrix*JAR on WSEE
Listen closely, and you might actually hear the film hitting the direct-to-DVD shelves while watching this trailer.
Bizarre fact - this film had its premiere in Estonia.
Sorta-kinda companion piece to the new Truckasaurus video below.
Off of Made in the Dark, out now.
Directed by Michael Forstein & Medium Zach.
Nothing like going outside for a smoke break to see Big Quarters, Doomtree, New MC, and some of the rest of the Twin Cities’ finest rappers shooting a video in the backyard.
“Barter System” comes off the September Big Quarters monthly subscritpion (5 songs for $5) which starts tomorrow. Sign up HERE.
(More pics of the video shoot HERE.)
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