In celebration of it’s tenth year anniversary, Liberty Hall is finally showing Donnie Darko for Midnight Movie Madness. In this movie, filmed in a mere 28 days, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is kind of like the little boy in the Sixth Sense (if you replaced “dead people” with “a creepy-looking, evil bunny rabbit”). LA’s New Times said, “It isn’t spoiled by the Hollywood forces that helped birth it,” and although the movie failed to break even, it has developed a cult following. It ranks high on many different lists such as: Empire’s “Greatest Indie Films”, FilmFour’s “50 Movies to See Before You Die”, and Entertainment Weekly’s “50 Best High School Movies.” Go see it.World Migration Film Series – FREE SCREENINGS @ Liberty Hall
Who likes free movies? Hurray, here’s two! Spend March’s first two Thursdays watching movies from the World Migration Film Series without paying a cent.
1. A Hebrew Lesson – 3 / 3 /11
“Offering a novel glimpse of the immigrant experience, filmmakers David Ofek and Ron Rotem follow several students in a multicultural Hebrew language immersion class in Tel Aviv”
This movie tells three different stories about a Russian lawyer, Chinese maid and German woman who is unemployed. Sundance says it is full of intimacy, humor, charm and irony.
2. Still Life – 3 / 10 / 11
“Citizens return to a flooded town to salvage what they can and say good-bye to things they lost.”
Still Life is a documentary about the destruction of the Three Gorges Dam in China which leaves millions of people homeless. Although this isn’t the happiest film on the planet it is definitely worth seeing and is a New York Times Critics’ Pick.
Radiohead – The King of Limbs Album Review by Austin Fisher
The King of Limbs isn’t a huge departure from past Radiohead albums, but it deserves notoriety for the number of different sounds that are packed into a very short album. Coming in at just under 37 ½ minutes, it’s the shortest Radiohead album to date, and arguably the most succinct. The variety of sounds is exemplified in the band’s use of percussion. The songs Morning Mr. Magpie and Feral have tempos that cause real drums to sound hurried and electronic. Give Up the Ghost and Codex have little to no percussion, falling back on the tried and true methods of Thom Yorke’s falsetto and pulsing piano progressions. If you like any of Radiohead’s music, or if you haven’t and you’re looking for a something a little different, you can download The King of Limbs on Radiohead’s website.
Radiohead – Lotus Flower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8
