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Novocaine
SHOW DATE: 11/4
SPEAKER(S): Chris Kaltenbach
Here's some information about the film:
Who directed it? David Atkins (Arizona Dream)
Who is in it? Steve Martin, Laura Dern, Helena Bonham
Carter, Elias Koteas
What is it about? Novocaine is an edgy, unpredictable
crime thriller, starring Steve Martin as prosperous
dentist Frank Sangster whose well-ordered existence is
thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient
(Helena Bonham Carter) draws him into a seedy
underworld or sex, drugs and murder.
Why should I see it? Screenwriter David Atkins
("Arizona Dreams") shows style in his directorial
debut, mainly by his aforementioned creepy use of
X-Rays to punctuate the action and Frank's symbolic
depiction with bunny rabbits.--Laura Clifford, Reeling
Reviews
Who is this week's guest speaker: Chris Kaltenbach,
Baltimore Sun Film Critic, making his 4th appearance
at Cinema Sundays (About Adam 3/18/01, Tuvalu 11/5/00,
Red Violin 6/13/99).
Waking Life
SHOW DATE: 10/21
SPEAKER(S): Skizz Cyzyk & Dan Krovich
Here's some information about the film:
Who directed it?
Richard Linklater (Slacker, Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused, SubUrbia, The Newton Boys)
Who is in it?
Voices of Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Ethan Hawke
What is it about?
An animated film that explores the nature of reality and how we separate dreams and consciousness, the film's vignettes follow an everyman college grad as he grapples with his his own existence.
Why should I see it?
"At a moment when the entire state of film making is in incredible flux with a convergence of new technologies, Linklater gives us a film that appears to offer a wealth of possibilities for the future."
--Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Who are this week's guest speakers?
Skizz Cyzyk & Dan Krovich, of the Maryland Film Festival. Skizz is Baltimore's answer to Richard Linklater--a film festival founder, programmer, exhibitor, filmmaker, animator, and projectionist. Dan holds Ph.D. from the department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Hopkins School of Medicine for his thesis, titled "Actomyosin Proteins in the Nuclear Matrix: Implications for Structure."
Mulholland Dr.
SHOW DATE: 10/14
SPEAKER(S): Loren Glass
Here's some information about the film:
What film is screening this week?
Mulholland Dr., U.S., 146 min.
Who directed it?
David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet)
Who is in it?
Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Justin Theroux, Dan Hadaya
What is it about?
Its about a star-struck blonde ingenue who dreams of stardom in L.A. who meets up with a raven-haired amnesiac accident victim. There's a movie director and a cowboy and menacing underworld figures and some tiny dancing people and the red curatined theater and a blue box...but you pretty much have to see it to get a handle on what it's all really about.
Why should I see it?
"Both pretentious and probing, Lynch's latest is bound to baffle and stimulate discussion."
--Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
Who is this week's guest speaker?
Loren Glass, who made his Cinema Sundays debut in May with The Golden Bowl, is Towson University Professor specializing in 20th Century American Literature and Culture, Theories of Mass Culture, and Modernism.
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