Archive for the ‘Screening Room Films’ Category
Your Sister’s Sister, funny, awkward, honest, surprising
Your Sister’s Sister, starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass opens in the screening room today. Directed by Lynn Shelton (Humpday), this film was shot in a lightning fast 12 days, and Shelton allowed the actors to improvise most of the film’s dialogue. This sort of film-making can go horribly awry, …
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COMPLIANCE, not easy on the brain, but well worth watching.
Compliance has stirred up a fair amount of controversy since it debuted at Sundance, and this week, we bring Compliance to you, the faithful and stalwart patrons of CinemaSalem. And stalwart you will need to be. Based on a real life case, the details of which can be reviewed here, the film depicts an …
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Hara-Kiri delivers drama, Queen of Versailles horror
I’ll be talking about two movies this week–Takashi Miike’s new drama Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (opening today in the screening room) and Lauren Greenfield’s latest documentary, The Queen of Versailles (opening on one of the big screens today).
Takashi Miike, best known for some of his more gruesome work–Ichi the Killer, Audition…
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Take This Waltz delivers solid acting and no easy answers
In her second feature-length directorial outing, Canadian actor and film-maker Sarah Polley delivers a nuanced, if imperfect, meditation on marriage and infidelity. Establishing herself as a talented writer and director in 2006 with her feature Away From Her, which earned wide critical acclaim, Polley’s second feature faced steep expectations from both critics and her …
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I Wish a delight for all ages
This week’s screening room film, I Wish, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda (Nobody Knows, Still Walking) is a simple, joyous delight. Like most of Koreeda’s films, the plot centers on a family in crisis. The narrative revolves around the two sons Koichi and Ryu, who are living in separate households following their parent’s …
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Best picture and actress nominees this week at CinemaSalem. Ocscar nominations out this morning!
Starting Friday at CinemaSalem: The Descendants and My Week with Marilyn and back for a second week, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. That’s two Best Picture nominees and a nominee for Best Actress (also Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay, but who’s counting?) And coming soon? The Artist for …
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Dates set for Salem Film Fest award winners to return for a week in the screening room.
If you missed Salem Film Fest 2011, we have a few treats in store. We customarily bring back the Jury Award Winner and Audience Award winner for one week bookings in the screening room, and the dates for this year’s winners are set. We’ll be starting with Kinshasa Symphony, which won the Jury Prize, …
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Local actor appearing in new genre film “Rubber”
The Boston Herald posted this article about one of our own, Salem/Swampscott native Blake Robbins and his role in the upcoming film Rubber. Rubber is the story of a telepathic killer tire. If that doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, these reviews may sway your opinion. Rubber opens in the CinemaSalem screening …
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Kereth’s take on the Oscar nominated short films
Head over to Art Throb for brief reviews of each short and my picks to win.…
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Poetry Coming To The Screening Room
Chang-dong Lee’s new drama, Poetry, is coming to the Screening Room for the week of March 11. It focuses on an older woman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s who decides to start learning poetry. It looks simultaneously beautiful and heartbreaking, which means I’m sure I’ll love it. Check out the trailer below.
