You have a rare choice of 4 movies this week, and the 4th film is free! But, oddly, none of them are showing Saturday night, beyond 5pm. I hope that's not a trend.
Why I Write (Wednesday only):
Local documentary, presented by the Delaware Humanities Forum, about twin brother poets and social workers who use poetry to build community in Wilmington.
Wednesday at 7pm, $7.
Blank City:
Film about renegade film-makers who emerged from the NYC film scene in the late seventies / early eighties, when New York was "a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs". The most well-known of this bunch are Jim Jarmusch and John Waters. This might be a good pick for fans of early punk as well, with appearances by Debbie Harry and Thurston Moore, and a soundtrack by The New York Dolls, Television (with a singer and a drummer from Delaware), Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, and more.
Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2:45pm, and Sunday at 2pm. $7 for all showings, including matinees.
In A Better World:
Winner of a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, this Danish film follows a couple who are headed for divorce, and their son who is bullied at school. The son's social life improves when he befriends the new kid in town, who has recently lost his mother. Things go south when the new kid tries to involve the son in a revenge plot. According to Theatre N's wrap-up, "it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy."
Friday at 2pm, Saturday at noon and 5pm, and Sunday at 5pm. $7 for Saturday shows, $5 for Friday and Sunday shows.
Jack Goes Boating (free showing):
This film will be followed by a talk by the director of photography. Directed and starred in by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Goes Boating is about a relationship that develops between two anti-social oddballs living in NYC. One showing only, Sunday at 11am. FREE. Q&A session afterwards.
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