Coming Attractions, May 16, Beau is Afraid to Love Again

Coming Attractions, Tuesday, May 16

The nuts and bolts of the turbo charged HLT well-oiled digital machinery, served to you once a week like breakfast in bed. 

Tuesday, May 16, BEAU is AFRAID @ 3:25 & 7 Open Captioned every Tuesday.

Wednesday, May 17, BEAU is AFRAID @ 3:25 & 7.

Thursday, May 18, BEAU is AFRAID @ 3:25 & 7*.

Friday, May 19, LOVE AGAIN @ 4:25 & 6:45

Saturday & Sunday, May 20&21, LOVE AGAIN @ 2, 4:25 & 6:45

Mon thru Thu, May 22-25, LOVE AGAIN @ 4:25 & 6:45

* In any number of explosive similarities between Mt St. Helens and Beau is Afraid, one must look past the immediate destructive reality and into the more constructive possibility. After all it is nothing other than Mother Nature manifesting her true self. Same with Beau as we watch a slow burning, just beneath the surface bubbling of neurotic magma and white hot volcanic guilt. The explosive payout sends emulsion ashes spewing in a thousand mile radius. If one cowers in the shadow of Mother’s reign of fire one must face the consequences of said cowering. Just ask Dad. 

Beau is a gnarly fever-dream crawl through a hellscape of neurotic situations and schizophrenic circumstances spanning the life, literally from the opening birth scene, to Beau’s final breath as the star of his own sinful paranoid saga. Kafka meets David Lynch for some gladiator fun. Dennis Hopper could stand in. Wes Craven could consult. Freud would surely snicker with delight. Twice during the three hour epic journey into, or away from, madness, I laughed out loud at the depth of blackness of the bleak obsidian humor in OMG disbelief. And Nathan Lake and Parker Posey! And an animated stage play with a midsummer plot sequence twisty enough for Rod Serling. Joaquin Phoenix screams, cries, moans, begs, sobs, pleads and yelps for forgiveness, but It is hard to empathize as we gradually consider that the only way for him to be relieved of his worldly suffering is NOT through therapy as Ari Aster pulls off a classic Hollyweird ending. Whew!

Friday we premiere LOVE AGAIN. Written and Directed by Jim Strouse, an adaptation from the book Text for You by Sofie Cramer. It Stars Priyanka Chopra-Jones, Sam Heughan and Celine Dion. Ms Diva also contributes FIVE new original ballads to the score. Meaning that if you are a romcom fan of light situational comedy, operatic and emotionally self-congruent, this one just might fill the need for something a little easier on the nerves than a visit with Beau. It’s synopsis: A young woman tries to ease the pain of her fiancé’s death by sending romantic texts to his old cell phone number and finds a connection with the man the number has been re-assigned to. Sound to you like a modern take on You’ve Got Mail? Minus Ryan and Hanks? Oh well, after a while everything is essentially a variation on a theme by Aesop, right? 

I will have the pleasure of siting down with local lawyer, author, activist and filmmaker Bill Marler, he of POISON fame, on Friday. Stay tuned to this site as, with any good fortune from the media Gods at all, we hope to drop the ‘cast on Saturday or Sunday. Allow me the advance publicity of pitching the tagline that if you you eat, you will find this session some serious food for thought. Gulp.

All for today folks, we’ve turned the temp in the auditorium down to 69 degrees in order to further insure your enjoyment of our features this week. If you’re outside enjoy the warmth of the sun, and inside cool down with a lemonade or an ice cold beer. Kolsch and BP Stout are both back and ready to accompany your cinematic pairing. Cheers!

Kevin

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