Mirror Mirror, the first of two live-action Snow White adaptations, hits theaters on March 30, 2012. Tarsem Singh's comedic take on the fable looks to be an extravaganza of costume and scenic design, as well as a showcase for star Julia Roberts, who plays the evil queen. Her costumes look, in a word, spectacular. Nathan Lane, Lily Collins and Armie Hammer co-star.
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Landmark's E Street Cinema, in partnership with ShortsHD, offers two feature-length programs of the short films nominated at the upcoming Academy Awards this Sunday, Feb. 26. One program features the animated shorts, including the poignant allegory The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and Pixar's La Luna, a multi-generation seafaring adventure, while the other program highlights the live action shorts, including films from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Norway and the German/Indian collaboration Raju, about a German couple who adopt an Indian orphan that suddenly disappears. Landmark's E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. Call 202-452-7672 or visit landmarktheatres.com.
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In this week's cover story, featuring interviews with Glenn Close and Janet McTeer, the stars of Albert Nobbs, there were a few nice moments with McTeer that, sadly, landed on the cutting-room floor. One of them dealt with McTeer's work on the new film The Woman in Black, a thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe and releasing today into theaters nationwide. She told Metro Weekly:
"I really don't have a ton to do in [Woman in Black]. I play Ciaran Hinds's wife. Ciaran and I have worked together many times and all we do is laugh from start to finish. And Daniel Radcliffe, of course, was just delightful, I have to say. Absolutely delightful. Somehow, I appear to be the only English actor who wasn't in a Harry Potter movies -- I don't know how that happened.
"Daniel and I hadn't met before and it was so lovely to watch a young actor transitioning from all of those things he did as a kid to now being a young adult doing young adult kind of roles. And he's so clever. He's a very, very intelligent young man and such a nice man for somebody who has gone through that whole uber-uber fame at such a very young age. I think that's quite tough on the kids during their developing years. He just turned out this incredibly hard-working, very concentrated, absolutely charming young man. I thought he was delightful."
I also asked McTeer a question I frequently pose to straight actors I interview: "Do you remember the first time a gay person came out to you?" Her response:
"I remember the first person who came out to me who I knew was gay and other people didn't inasmuch as I guessed that they were gay. I was about 19, I think. And I remember saying to this person, 'You've really got to stop pretending that you're something that you're not. Why are you doing that? You have every right to be who you are. It doesn't matter. 'I said, 'Your parents will get over it.' I don't really remember. It must have been before I went to college. I honestly don't remember. I suppose the thing is, inherently, it's never made no nevermind to me. I've never quite understood why anyone had a problem with it. But then I do slightly live in my own world."
Read the full Janet McTeer interview here.
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Landmark's E Street Cinema presents a screening of Opera on Film: 3 Superstars in Berlin, a taped performance at Berlin's massive Waldbuhne amphitheater featuring three of the opera world's biggest stars: Soprano Anna Netrebko, her baritone husband Erwin Schrott and tenor Jonas Kaufman. The opera's greatest hits program, with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra accompanying the singers, includes selections from Bernstein's West Side Story, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Gounod's Faust and Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Thursday, Jan. 26, and Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m. Landmark's E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. Call 202-452-7672 or visit landmarktheatres.com.
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The Raspberry Brothers, a trio of Brooklyn comedians, return to the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse, this time to riff on the 1990 Christmas flick Home Alone and give that brat -- otherwise known as Macaulay Culkin -- a taste of his own medicine. The comedians offer humorous commentary, Mystery Science Theater 3000-style. Friday, Dec. 23, at 9:55 p.m. Arlington Cinema N' Drafthouse, 2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington. Tickets are $15. Call 703-486-2345 or visit arlingtondrafthouse.com.
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society, dedicated to independent, experimental, low-budget, off-the-beaten-path filmmaking, presents a weekly Monday night screening series, hosted by The Incorrigible Dr. Schlock. Next week offers 1978's The Punk Rock Movie, featuring performances by The Clash, The Slits and more -- including Siouxsie and the Banshees. Peek-a-boo! Monday, Dec. 19, at 8 p.m. McFadden's, 2401 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Screenings are free but donations are suggested. Call 202-462-3356 or visit wpfs.org.
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The E Street Cinema continues its "Capital Classics" series this weekend with the 1933 classic King Kong, in which a giant ape escapes and wreaks havoc on human society. The stop-motion work and effects are, to this day, miraculous. Saturday, Dec. 10, at 12 a.m., and Sunday, Dec. 11, at 11 a.m. The Capital Classics series continues through Dec. 18. Landmark's E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. Tickets are $11. Call 202-452-7672 or visit landmarktheatres.com.
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As part of its month-long Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy series, timed with release of the new Muppets movie, the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre offers a run of the popular movies and other cinematic goodies that grew out of the famous puppets franchise, which grew out of Sesame Street. Among the highlights this weekend: the '80s movie musicals The Great Muppet Caper and The Muppets Take Manhattan -- with Liza Minnelli in a cameo -- and "Muppet History 201: More Rarities from the Henson Vault," featuring recently unearthed clips of Muppets TV appearances. AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. Tickets are $8.50 to $11 each screening. Call 301-495-6720 or visit afi.com/Silver.
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Creator Joel Hodgson and the original cast of the award-winning cult television show MST3K return for more movie riffing in front a live audience. The focus is on the terrible 1976 horror film Rattlers, in which a chauvinist herpetologist teams up with a feminist war photographer to uncover the mystery behind a spate of killer rattlesnake attacks. This should be explosively, stingingly uproarious, and it’s intended to be something of a Halloween party. Thursday, Oct. 27, at 8 p.m. Lisner Auditorium, The George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. Tickets are $25 to $35. Call 202-994-6800 or visit lisner.org.
Reel Affirmations wrapped its 20th festival, and the audience votes for favorite films have been tallied. No surprises here -- in fact, we couldn't agree more, as you'll see by our reviews.
Best Feature: Pariah. The film is tentatively scheduled for a January 2012 theatrical release.
Best Women's Short: Cry Suicide.
Best Men's Short: I Don't Want To Go Back Alone. You can watch the film in its entirety below, but it doesn't yet have subtitles online. Still it is a marvelous work.
Best Documentary: Vito. Reportedly, HBO will broadcast this extraordinary documentary in June 2012.
Best International Program: Mary Lou. With Israeli director Eytan Fox at the helm, how could it fail?
The inaugural First Time Filmmaker award went to Sal Bardo for Requited.
The group also gave its inaugural Keith Clark & Barry Becker Filmmaker Award to Michele Josue & Liam McNill to assist with the completion of their documentary Matthew Shepard Is A Friend of Mine. You can read Metro Weekly's reviews of all the films in this year's Reel Affirmations here.
