Movies

by Beth Hammarlund, A Tiny Machine • 11/18/08 •

I wanted to like Twilight. I hadn’t heard much of the books, but once the movie buzz began I decided to give the series a try. Now I’m as into hot marble-bodied vampires as much the next girl, but wow, I hated that book. Don’t get me wrong, I finished it in like a day and a half.

On Saturday, the Kitty Cat Klub will be the site of the inaugural Project, Project, an immersive, multi-sensory aesthetic experience featuring work from nearly every part of the artistic spectrum. MORE »

This week’s picks

Thursday, November 27
If the blindly patriotic, crassly commercial nature of Thanksgiving is just too much for you, head to First Ave, where you can really stick it to ‘em by enjoying free turkey and music by a Soviet panda.

Friday, November 28
After battling the Black Friday crowds to score that discount Oreck, take Sanctuary with a delicious and—most importantly—leftover-free meal downtown. MORE »

The plot of Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino is a closely guarded secret. But now that shooting has wrapped up, how the Hmong actors fit into their roles is becoming more visible. Clint Eastwood’s character, Walt, stumbles into the middle of a struggle within the Hmong community. He tries to intervene in a contest between a war-torn family and a ruthless street gang over the soul of a teenaged boy. MORE »

The Hmong shaman had come to the movie set fully equipped. Normally he’d have worn a shirt and slacks, but for Clint Eastwood’s new movie, Gran Torino, he dressed as he would have in Laos. Using his own equipment and mostly his own traditional dress, the shaman was ready to shoot the ceremonial scene. That is, until they hit a snag. He’d left the equipment he needed to perform the ritual in his trailer. MORE »

by Brian Moen, East-Lake.net • 11/10/08 •

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World genre cinema is alive and well in Minneapolis with the opening of Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In at the Lagoon Cinema. The film, which has won several awards at film festivals around the world and carries a 97% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, is the first in Magnet’s Six Shooter Film Series, a showcase of six of the best films from the vanguard of international genre cinema. MORE »

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Teenage girls in line to get tickets for Twilight: Annoying, seriously MORE »