Tonight @ Zeitgeist

Thursday, May 23: 

7:30 p.m. – I KILLED MY MOTHER by Xavier Dolan (Cannes Winner – French Canadian gay coming of age drama)

Tuesday, May 21 thru 23 @ 7:30 p.m. & Friday thru Sunday, May 24 thru 26 @ 9:30 p.m.

I KILLED MY MOTHER by Xavier Dolan.  Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I Killed My Mother beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweater and kitschy décor, the ingrained mechanisms (i.e.  manipulation and guilt) of their relationship beautifully (and tragically) unravel on the big screen.  One of the most acclaimed films of the decade, this highly acclaimed film from 2009 won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and swept both the Genie and Jutra Awards (Canada’s version of the Oscars).  The film’s initial U.S. distributor went bankrupt and the film has been in a legal limbo for nearly four years.  It has finally been released in the U.S. and we are excited to finally bring this remarkable film to N.O. This film screens as part of our ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.

 

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Multi-disciplinary Arts Center

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New Orleans, LA 70113

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GATHR PREVIEWS SERIES

Zeitgeist is proud to announce that we have signed on as the official New Orleans venue for an exciting new weekly film series from Gathr Films.  The Gathr Preview Series gives audiences in select cities the chance to see the best new independent cinema in theaters before anyone else – even before NYC and LA. Think of it as your year-round film festival, movie club, and weekly date night all rolled into one! Every week, members can go to their local arthouse and experience a diverse range of comedies, documentaries, dramas and international movies curated from major independent distributors’ upcoming releases. Gathr has partnered with our favorite arthouse theaters to create a unique entertainment experience. Join us, bring your friends, and be the first to see the movies everyone will be talking about!  We’ll have a new movie each week. Gathr Members can attend each screening plus enjoy a host of other perks. Advanced tickets and a 2 for 1 promotional offer are available at http://gathr.us/series/new-orleans-previews   Get a GATHR PREVIEWS SERIES subscription and save $4 of your first month by using the promotion code 7920-ZNO  - Zeitgeist

And starting Monday, May 27th, the Korean Vegan Pop Up – THE WANDERING BUDDHA (formerly at the Hi Ho Lounge) will be offering a taylor made, eclectic, gourmet menu of delights for sale every Monday night in honor of the GATHR PREVIEW SERIES and our other weekly offerings – for dinner and a movie!  Look here for their weekly menu!

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They will begin serving on Monday @ 5:00 p.m. – so come early to do dinner and a movie!

Showing this Monday :

7:30 p.m. – 100 BLOODY ACRES (a horror comedy from Australia) – 9:30 p.m. – LET MY PEOPLE GO (a French, gay, jewish comedy set in Finland)

Here is the menu for Monday, May 27, 2013:

 

May 2013 Events

Tuesday, May 21 thru 23 @ 7:30 p.m. & Friday thru Sunday, May 24 thru 26 @ 9:30 p.m.

I KILLED MY MOTHER by Xavier Dolan.  Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I Killed My Mother beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweater and kitschy décor, the ingrained mechanisms (i.e.  manipulation and guilt) of their relationship beautifully (and tragically) unravel on the big screen.  One of the most acclaimed films of the decade, this highly acclaimed film from 2009 won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and swept both the Genie and Jutra Awards (Canada’s version of the Oscars).  The film’s initial U.S. distributor went bankrupt and the film has been in a legal limbo for nearly four years.  It has finally been released in the U.S. and we are excited to finally bring this remarkable film to N.O. This film screens as part of our ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.

Friday through Thursday, May 24 through 30 @ 7:30 p.m. (except Monday @ 9:30 p.m.)

LET MY PEOPLE GO! by Mikael Buch. A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch’s Let My People Go! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Ruben (Regular Lovers’ Nicolas Maury), a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in “Comparative Sauna Cultures”) with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers’ quarrel exile the heartbroken Ruben back to Paris and his zany family—including Pedro Almodovar goddess Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver) as his ditzy mom, and Truffaut regular Jean-François Stévenin as his lothario father. Scripted by director Mikael Buch and renowned arthouse auteur Christophe Honoré (Love Songs), Let My People Go! both celebrates and upends Jewish and gay stereotypes with wit, gusto and style to spare. The result is deeply heartwarming, fabulously kitschy and hysterically funny. Winner – Audience Award – Best Comedic Film – Philadelphia Qfest; Winner – Best Cinematography – Asheville Qfest

Monday, May 27 @ 7:30 p.m.

100 BLOODY ACRES by Cameron & Colin Cairnes. A horror/comedy from Australia. The use of dead car crash victims in the Morgan Brothers’ “Blood and Bone” fertiliser has been a huge boon to business. But it’s been months since their last find and an important new customer is waiting on a delivery. When Reg Morgan, the junior partner in the business, comes across three young people stranded on a remote country road, he sees a radical solution to their supply problems, and a way of finally gaining the respect of his bossy big brother, Lindsay. But things don’t quite go to plan when Reg starts forming an attachment with one of their captives, Sophie. Reg must now make a decision: go through with the plan and finally win Lindsay’s approval, or save the kids and destroy everything the brothers have worked for. They’re not psycho killers… they’re just small business operators.  $10 / $8.  [GATHR PREVIEWS]  For advanced tickets, subscriptions and other info please go to http://gathr.us/series/new-orleans-previews

Friday thru Thursday, May 31 thru June 6 @ 6:30 p.m. (except Monday @ 9:30 p.m.)

THE LESSER BLESSED by Anita Doron. Adapted from the powerful and irreverent first novel by Tlicho (native Canadian) author Richard Van Camp,this powerful film stars newcomer Joel Evans, Benjamin Bratt (Pinero, La Mission), Kiowa Gordon (The Twilight Saga), China Rose (Degrassi: The Next Generation), Adam Butcher (Saint Ralph) and Tamara Podemski (Dance Me Outside, Johnny Greyeyes).  Larry is a Tlicho Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, hallucinations and fantasies are hotter than the centre of the sun. At sixteen, he loves heavy metal music, the North and Juliet Hope, the high school “hottie”. When Johnny Beck, a Métis Indian from Hay River, moves to town, Larry is ready for almost anything. Skinny as spaghetti, nervy and self-deprecating, Larry is an appealing mixture of bravado and vulnerability. His past holds many terrors: an abusive father, and an accident that almost killed him. But through his friendship with Johnny, and his lust for Juliet, he’s ready now to face his memories — and his future. The Lesser Blessed is an eye-opening depiction of what it is to be a young Native man in today’s modern world.  This film screens as part of our on-going series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.

Friday thru Thursday, May 31 thru June 6 @ 8:15 p.m. (except Monday @ 5:15 p.m.)

POST TENEBRAS LUX (AFTER DARKNESS LIGHT) by Carlos Reygadas.  POST TENEBRAS LUX (‘light after darkness’), ostensibly the story of an upscale, urban family whose move to the Mexican countryside results in domestic crises and class friction, is a stunningly photographed, impressionistic psychological portrait of a family and their place within the sublime, unforgiving natural world. Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, Japon, Battle In Heaven) conjures a host of unforgettable, ominous images: a haunting sequence at dusk as Reygadas’s real-life daughter wanders a muddy field and farm animals loudly circle and thunder and lightning threaten; a glowing-red demon gliding through the rooms of a home; a husband and wife visiting a swingers’ bathhouse with rooms named after famous philosophers. By turns entrancing and mystifying, POST TENEBRAS LUX palpably explores the primal conflicts of the human condition. Winner – Best Director – Cannes Film Festival.

MAY CALENDAR AT A GLANCE:

May 10 through 16:

6:00 p.m. Friday – WHEN THE IRON BIRD FLIES  [Dalai Lama Film Series]

8:00 p.m. Friday through Sunday – END OF TIME  [Dalai Lama Film Series]

4:30 p.m. Saturday – SUNRISE / SUNSET  [Dalai Lama Film Series]

6:00 p.m. Sunday – FIERCE LIGHT  [Dalai Lama Film Series]

6:00 p.m. Monday – WHAT REMAINS OF US   [Dalai Lama Film Series]

7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday – OLD DOG   [Dalai Lama Film Series]

6:00 p.m. Tuesday – DAUGHTERS OF WISDOM   [Dalai Lama Film Series]

6:00 p.m. Wednesday – BRILLIANT MOON   [Dalai Lama Film Series]

6:00 p.m. Thursday – SUNRISE / SUNSET   [Dalai Lama Film Series]

 

May 17 through 23:

1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Friday & Saturday – Live Streaming DALAI LAMA   [Dalai Lama Film Series]

6:00 p.m. Friday – WHEN THE IRON BIRD FLIES   [Dalai Lama Film Series] 

8:00 p.m. Friday – AIN’T IN IT FOR MY HEALTH: A FILM ABOUT LEVON HELM   [GATHR PREVIEWS SERIES]

6:00 p.m. Saturday – A FIERCE LIGHT    [Dalai Lama Film Series]

7:00 p.m. Sunday – UNCONDITIONAL LOVE    [Film Festival Flix presents]

7:30 p.m. – Monday – WHAT MAISIE KNEW   [GATHR PREVIEWS SERIES]

7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday – I KILLED MY MOTHER

May 24 through 30:

7:30 p.m. nightly (except Monday @ 9:30 p.m.)  – LET MY PEOPLE GO!

9:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday – I KILLED MY MOTHER

7:30 p.m. Monday – 100 BLOODY ACRES [GATHR PREVIEWS SERIES]

 

May 31 through June 6:

6:30 p.m. nightly (except Monday @ 9:30 p.m.) – THE LESSER BLESSED

8:15 p.m. nightly (except Monday @ 5:15 p.m.) – POST TENEBRAS LUX (AFTER DARKNESS LIGHT)

7:30 p.m. Monday – STUCK IN LOVE   [GATHR PREVIEWS SERIES]

 

Monday, June 3 @ 7:30 p.m.

STUCK IN LOVE by Josh Boone. Meet the Borgens. William Borgens (Greg Kinnear) is an acclaimed author who hasn’t written a word since his ex-wife Erica (Jennifer Connelly) left him 3 years ago for another man. In between spying on Erica and casual romps with his married neighbour Tricia (Kristin Bell), Bill is dealing with the complexities of raising his teenage children Samantha (Lily Collins) and Rusty (Nat Wolff). Samantha is publishing her first novel and is determined to avoid love at all costs – after all she’s seen what it has done to her parents. In between hook ups, she meets “nice guy” Lou (Logan Lerman) who will stop at nothing to win her over. Rusty, is an aspiring fantasy writer and Stephen King aficionado, who is on a quest to gain ‘life experiences’. He falls for the beautiful, but troubled Kate (Liana Liberato) and gets his first taste of love and a broken heart. A tale of family, love (lost and found), and how endings can make new beginnings. There are no rewrites in life, only second chances.  $10 / $8.  [GATHR PREVIEWS]  For advanced tickets, subscriptions and other info please go to http://gathr.us/series/new-orleans-previews

 

June 2013 Events

June 7 through 13 nightly @ 8:00 p.m. (except Monday & Tuesday @ 9:30 p.m.)

THE ANGEL’S SHARE by Ken Loach.  Legendary British filmmaker Ken Loach is back with The Angels’ Share - a bitter sweet comedy that follows protagonist Robbie as he sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his newborn son Luke for the first time. Overwhelmed by the moment, he swears that Luke will not have the same tragic life he has had. Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, he’s given one last chance……While serving a community service order, he meets Rhino, Albert and Mo who, like him, find it impossible to find work because of their criminal records. Little did Robbie imagine how turning to drink might change their lives – not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world. Will it be ‘slopping out’ for the next twenty years, or a new future with ‘Uisge Beatha’ the ‘Water of Life?’ Only the angels know…Starring: Roger Allam, Daniel Portman, John Henshaw, Siobhan Reilly.

June 7 through 13 nightly @ 6:00 p.m. (except Monday & Tuesday @ 5:30 p.m.)

BURN: One Year On the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit by Tom Putnam. BURN is a feature documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of Detroit firefighters, who are charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead. Firefighters have an up-close view of the best and worst in any city.  This is especially true for Detroit. Detroit is a picture of the future of American industrial cities in a post-industrial age: One foot in a prosperous past, with an uncertain next act, struggling to survive in a changing economy.  Since 1950, racial tensions and vanishing industry have cut Detroit’s population in half from 1.8 million, making it a housing market horror story and leaving behind 80,000 abandoned homes. And in Detroit, social problems manifest themselves in one way – FIRE.  The result is a dying city with one of the highest arson rates in the world.  Los Angeles, a city of 4 million people, sees 11 structure fires per day.  Compare that to Detroit, which has 713,000 residents and 30 structure fires a day.  BURN follows the crew of Engine Company 50 — one of the busiest firehouses in America.  Located on Detroit’s blighted east side, E50 stands at ground zero of the city’s problems.  Every day, these firefighters face injury, disablement, and death.  But they come back, day after day, resolved to make a difference.  They’re certainly not here for the money — their starting salary is $30,000 and they haven’t seen a raise in 10 years.  BURN tells the story of these exceptional individuals who, despite the challenges and dysfunction, believe in their city and are attempting to make a difference every day.  Every time that bell rings, the doors of E50 roll up, its crew step into worn boots, climb into decrepit trucks and drive out into the crumbling streets of Detroit to battle these complex problems.  Until now, no one has properly explored these issues, and these characters, with the depth and detail they deserve.  Through an exclusive agreement with the DFD and the City of Detroit, BURN has embedded with the firefighters of E50 and is following the Detroit story through their eyes.  We’ll explore human struggles, hope and personal courage in the face of overwhelming odds. Partial proceeds from this week long theatrical run benefit the Leary Foundation benefiting families of fallen firefighters.  $10 / $8.  For advanced tickets and BURN merchandise please go to http://detroitfirefilm.org/events!

Monday, June 10 @ 7:30 p.m.

MORE THAN HONEY a documentary about honey bee colonies  [GATHR PREVIEWS]  For advanced tickets, subscriptions and other info please go to http://gathr.us/series/new-orleans-previews

Opening June 14

SIGHTSEERS by Ben Wheatley.  A laugh out loud, jet black comedy about not so mild manned psychopath Chris, who wants to show his new girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong, extremely dark turn in this acclaimed British comedy.

Monday, June 17 @ 7:30 p.m.

THE GOOD SON a documentary about Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini  [GATHR PREVIEWS]  For advanced tickets, subscriptions and other info please go to http://gathr.us/series/new-orleans-previews

Opening June 21:

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO by Peter Strickland. In the 1970s, a British sound technician (Toby Jones) is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. Berberian Sound Studio is many things: an anti-horror film, a stylistic tour de force, and a dream of cinema. As such, it offers a kind of pleasure that is rare in films, while recreating in a highly original way the pleasures of Italian horror cinema. Winner of 4 BAFTA Awards  including Best Director; Best Actor, Toby Jones; Best Technical Achievement $ Best Production Design.  Winner Best Actor, Toby Jones and Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards; British Film of the Year & British Actor of the Year from the London Critics Circle Film Awards and Jury Prize and International Critcs Prize at the Gerardmer Film Festival.

Sunday, June 23 @ 8:00 p.m.

THE WIND by Victor Sjostrom.  The 1928 silent film starring Lillian Gish will be screened with a live, original score by THE INVINCIBLE CZARS (from Austin, Texas).

Opening June 28

100 BLOODY ACRES by Cameron & Colin Cairnes. A horror/comedy from Australia. The use of dead car crash victims in the Morgan Brothers’ “Blood and Bone” fertiliser has been a huge boon to business. But it’s been months since their last find and an important new customer is waiting on a delivery. When Reg Morgan, the junior partner in the business, comes across three young people stranded on a remote country road, he sees a radical solution to their supply problems, and a way of finally gaining the respect of his bossy big brother, Lindsay. But things don’t quite go to plan when Reg starts forming an attachment with one of their captives, Sophie. Reg must now make a decision: go through with the plan and finally win Lindsay’s approval, or save the kids and destroy everything the brothers have worked for. They’re not psycho killers… they’re just small business operators.

Opening June 28

MANIAC by Franck Khalfoun.  From the acclaimed director of High Tension and P2. Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. Frank (Elijah Wood)is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank’s obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.