Reel Politique: Links of Interest, This Weekend’s Movies
Here are some of the movies available to Vancouverists on the big screen this weekend, September 26 through 28.
Kiggins continues with the confusing Hancock (is it a fun superhero movie, or a serious drama?), adding to it, the mildly entertaining superhero movie, Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Admission is $4.
Cinetopia continues with the new Coen Brothers black comedy Burn After Reading, and adds Choke, based loosely on Northwest writer Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, Eagle Eye, the new political paranoia thriller, Ghost Town, the Ricky Gervase comedy, Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway, and two varying rom-coms, My Best Friend’s Girl and Nights in Rodanthe. The Regal Cascade Stadium 16 Cinemas is showing Burn After Reading, Eagle Eye, Fireproof, Fly Me to the Moon 3-D, Forever Strong, Ghost Town, Igor, Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, Lakeview Terrace, Mamma Mia!, Miracle at St. Anna, My Best Friend’s Girl, Nights in Rodanthe, Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway, Righteous Kill, The Dark Knight, The Women, and Tropic Thunder, while the Regal Vancouver Plaza 10 Cinema has some of the same titles plus WALL-E and Hancock.
Meanwhile, a few short miles away, the Hollywood Theater continues with the H. P. Lovecraft, and Cthulhu, and the dreadful ’70s homage, Humboldt Country. The Cinema 21 has the irascible British director Alex Cox shepherding is own new film Searchers 2.0 to the theater at 3 PM Sunday, the 28th, another crazy and unpredictable Cox effort starring everyone from Leonard Maltin to Roger Corman. Also on the 28th, for three days is the dialogue inducing documentary Solving Immigration, a balanced account of the issues involved. The all-digital Living Room Theaters is featuring Transsiberian , a new thriller from the cult director Brad Anderson, Mad Detective , the premiere of Johnnie To’s new cop action film, Kabluey, Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts, about the composer, The Edge of Heaven, and Priceless. The Northwest Film Center has, among other offerings, the second two parts of Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy, further entries in the Global Concerns: Human Rights on Film series, and three films in the David Lean retrospective, including the utterly weird ghost comedy penned by Noel Coward Blithe Spirit (if you see it, look for the high tech coffee pot on display in the film).