
CLUE
1985. USA. Dir: Jonathan Lynn. With With Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd. 94 min.Ignore BATTLESHIP – here’s a board game adaptation that’s actually worth your time. In a zany revival of the "Old Dark House" tradition, six chromatically-named strangers summoned to a mansion try to solve the murder of their mutual blackmailer. But things go pear-shaped as people start offing each other with revolvers, daggers, and yes, candlesticks.
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
2001. USA. Dir: John Cameron Mitchell. With With Mitchell, Stephen Trask. 95 min.Our favorite cult classic rock opera about an East German transsexual with a botched surgery comes screaming back to us, loud n’ proud. Stephen Trask '89 – the chap behind those songs stuck in your head – will be on hand to discuss making movie music. Co-sponsored by the Queer Resource Center.
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
2012. USA. Dir: David O. Russell. With With Bradley Cooper. 122 min.Charmingly bi-polar Cooper moves in with his folks after a brief institutional stint. With help from a sexy-yet-scary young widow (Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence), he sets out to win back his estranged wife. Acerbic humor, drama, and sentiment duke it out in a captivating comedy for the violent neurotic in all of us.
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING
1965. UK. Dir: Otto Preminger. With With Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley. 107 min.A little girl inexplicably vanishes from school, but as the search begins for her kidnapper some question if she ever existed in the first place. Preminger keeps the audience accusing and acquitting his cast of bizarre suspects in this cunning mystery, gorgeously rendered in black-and-white widescreen.
