So BAM is showing Sex and the City and the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: I thought they were the local edgy cinema. Aren’t those films, like, big blockbusters? What are they doing at BAM. WE can go to the Pavilion to see them.
They do have Reprise:
The freewheeling passion of youth and the unpredictable perils of fate are both the subject and breathtaking form of Joachim Trier’s lean and kinetic journey through friendship, love, madness, and creativity: Reprise. Trier viscerally captures the way life takes off at rocket-speed in the beginning of adulthood—and the what-ifs and why-nots that both drive and haunt us as the unbridled hopes of youth come to a screeching halt. The fast-moving story kicks off just as Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen Klouman Høiner) stand at the mailbox, two cocky, grinning rebels full of 20 year-old verve and dreams, their whole lives hanging in the balance at this singular moment. Each is about to ship off his first novel to publishers, each is hoping to become a wildly influential “cult author,” each has visions of a new life, of non-stop intensity, brilliance, romance, and night-clubbing.
They are also showing: Celine and Julie Go Boating by Jacques Rivette June 13 – 19th. That’s pretty avant garde and it’s part of their Director’s Fortnight at 40 series.
Celine and Julie Go Boating is one of my old faves. I used to carry a frame of it in my wallet, since I used to run the projector in my Film Theory class, and also fixed chewed up reels.
While it’s debatable as to whether or not those movies should be at BAM, the screens at the Pavilion suck. If BAM wants to make a few bucks on summer blockbusters so they can afford long runs of mostly empty houses for artsier films, so be it.