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25/9/2003

Real Art Ways

Real Art Ways, Hartford

Something for all of us this weekend at Real Art Ways.

1. Matthew Barney's THE CREMASTER CYCLE

Opens Friday, September 26 / ONE WEEK ONLY!

Artist Matthew Barney's THE CREMASTER CYCLE has until now been only available through collector videos, rare gallery screenings and earlier this year at the Guggenheim. In new 35mm prints, we will show all five films in the cycle. Barney compacts architectural theory, Celtic mythology, the history of freemasonry and movie history into one labyrinthine modern mystery.

Want to see all five? They'll be playing separately all week, or you can bone up for THE CREMASTER CYCLE MARATHON on Sunday, September 28.

CREMASTER 4
Flame-haired goat-boy The Loughton Candidate (Barney) slowly taps his way through an eroding floor into the sea, as competing color-coded motorcycle teams set off in opposite directions to circle the Isle of Man. "A surreal, slapstick fantasy; sexuality turned into a bizarre vaudeville," wrote The New York Times. (1994, 42 min)

CREMASTER 1
Busby Berkeley inspires CREMASTER 1, where, in twin hovering Goodyear blimps, a woman arranges red and green grapes into geometric patterns imitated by Isaac Mizrahi-clad dancing girls on the blue astro-turfed football field below. (1995, 40 min)

CREMASTER 5
Ursula Andress (DR. NO) stars as the Queen of Chain, the sole audience for a lush operatic spectacle performed by the Budapest Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra within a grand 19th-century opera house, accompanied by faeries, a magician (Barney on horseback), various attendants of unspecified gender and species, and a bevy of live pigeons. "A ravishing stretch of cinema... rich and quite, quite strange," wrote David Frankel of ARTFORUM. (1997, 55 min)

CREMASTER 2
"A sprawling, hallucinatory quiltwork of gorgeously shot scenes and ominous organ music, all slowly unfolding a circuitous plot involving Gary Gilmore (Barney), copulating bees, members of the Gilmore clan, Houdini (Norman Mailer), a Brahma bull, the Mormon Tabernacle and landscapes ranging from Utah's blindlingly bright salt flats to the glacial ice fields of Jasper, Canada... A world as strangely alternate as Lewis Carroll's." - Steven Henry Madoff, TIME (1999, 79 min)

CREMSTER 3
Barney's The Entered Apprentice faces off against Chrysler Building architect Hiram Abiff (sculptor Richard Serra) in the Art Deco landmark, while battling punk bands, Rockette-like chorines, and a half-cheetah woman (Aimée Mullins) as he scales the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum in an interlude. New York Magazine called it "endlessly fascinating... Barney's most hypnotic work yet." (2002, 182 min)

: Official site :: http://www.cremaster.net

Synopses from Anthology Film Archives

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2. JOHN SINCLAIR & HIS BLUES SCHOLARS in Concert: Thursday, September 25, 8pm

For anyone who grew up in the '60s, JOHN SINCLAIR is a legend. Founding member of the White Panthers. Manager of seminal Detroit punk band the MC5. Subject of a John Lennon song.

Now best known as a great DJ, SINCLAIR also fronts the Boston Blues Scholars...

"Poetry in motion... When John Sinclair looked out into the audience for his performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival earlier this year, he saw something few poets have ever seen: people dancing to his poetry." - Ben Edmonds, San Francisco Chronicle

The Boston Blues Scholars are a visceral amalgam of Monk, Coltrane, beat poetry and R&B with an intense, powerful live show. Sinclair has remained a relevant voice in music and poetry, and in 2000 released the splendid live disc Steady Rollin' Man on triPup Records.

Tickets: $15 General Tickets / $10 for Members / $5 for Full-Time Students with ID.

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3. They Might Be Giants doc GIGANTIC: Late Shows Friday-Saturday, September 26-27

"Anything but the typical rock band saga." - Stephen Holden, New York Times

"GIGANTIC is a celebration of a lasting collaboration, creative integrity and the right to be different. It's big in all sorts of small ways." - Boston Herald

"It goes without saying that if you're a They Might Be Giants fan, you're gonna piss all over yourself while watching this thing." - Eric Campos, Film Threat

A music documentary for fans and non-fans alike, GIGANTIC (A Tale of Two Johns) features readings of TMBG lyrics by fans Janeanne Garolfalo, Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien, Ira Glass, Sarah Vowell, Dave Eggers and the cast of SPINAL TAP. There are video antics á la HARD DAYS NIGHT, archival footage, animation and interviews with the Johns (Flansburgh and Linnell). It's a feel-good lovefest but it's also one of the best mucic docs in years. Oh, and it's also hilarious.

(US, 2002, 102 min)

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4. Last Chance for SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS, OUTSKIRTS

Wednesday and Thursday are your final opportunities to catch THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS and THE OUTSKIRTS!

THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS: Real Art Ways' most popular movie ever! In director Alan Rudolph's masterful work, the marriage of a husband-and-wife dentist team slowly decays after the man (CampbellScott) sees his wife (Hope Davis) kissing another man. Also stars Robin Tunney and Denis Leary.

THE OUTSKIRTS is"a fascinating mixture of deadpan comedy, postmodern revenge fantasy, and retro-'30s Soviet propaganda film," said Scott Tobias of The Onion. A collective village in Russia is given the word that their land has been sold to a big corporation and they will no longer be needed. So a band of men - an old farmer, a grizzled World War II veteran and a frail, sad-eyed young man - set out from the village on a fantastical journey to find and punish the men responsible for selling them out. The men gradually become more comic (and more dangerous) as they move from village to town and finally to city, simultaneously moving from the 19th-century to the present in only a few weeks.

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