Thursday, July 9, 2009
Events Shoot the 'Moon': Reception Kicks Off Opening Night of Belcourt's Sundance Series
Posted by Jim Ridley on Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:23 AM
What's even better than seeing one of the best indie films so far this year? Seeing it at a discount with free food. That's the deal 7 p.m. Friday at The Belcourt, where admission to the opening night of the acclaimed sci-fi drama Moon--a mere $5.75 if you have a Belcourt membership--ushers you into a reception catered by Cabana, Fido, Midtown Café, Sunset Grill and Tin Angel, with a selection of wine from Village Wines.
What gives? It's the kick-off of The Belcourt's "Best of Sundance 2009" series. For each of the selections in the program--including the sleeper comedies Humpday (July 31) and In the Loop (Aug. 14)--the theater will offer an opening-night reception free with paid admission.
For an impressively spoiler-free preview of the movie, see D. Patrick Rodgers' review in this week's Scene:
Set on a lunar base in an ambiguous but seemingly politically and environmentally stable future, the pensive sci-fi thriller Moon marks an impressive feature-length debut for commercial director Duncan Jones, a former Vanderbilt Ph.D. candidate (and the sole progeny of David Bowie's first marriage). Sam Rockwell stars as Sam Bell, the isolated and increasingly distraught clock-puncher contracted by remote Lunar Industries for a three-year haul. His job is to oversee the automated mining of helium-3 from the moon's surface, and not to go crazy in the process. The Kevin Spacey-voiced GERTY--Rockwell's robotic assistant/covert supervisor, à la 2001's HAL--serves as an even-keeled foil, against which Rockwell's heartrending series of breakdowns and epiphanies appears absurdly...well, human.
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If this is not your cup of tea, try Saturday night at the Belcourt for their "Second Saturday Summer Drive-in:
http://www.belcourt.org/events?id=64628
This month's feature looks exciting! Sorry, no catered event but run accros the street to the Coop for some finger, wings and beer.
If you've never done it, give it a try. It's a hoot....and it's free!
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Seconded, BW. Next month's feature looks even cooler: it's the seldom-seen Nashville-shot Burt Reynolds vehicle W.W. & the Dixie Dance Kings, a movie I saw about eight times at the theater when I was 10 years old.
