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Currently on view at the ICA, the ambitious exhibition Nari Ward: Sun Splashed presents fresh, bright, colorful, and playfully complex and engaging works of art that blend the personal, everyday experience with pointed references to issues of power, politics, and history in society. As a native Jamaican who immigrated to Harlem in the early 90’s, Ward is able to employ a playful, innocent, and occasionally naive perspective as a newcomer to his new home. Ward’s exhibition begins with Happy Smilers: Duty Free Shopping, 1996, a noisy yet welcoming room filled with the sound of incessant chirping and squawking of parrots repeating simple, cartoonish phrases over and over again. The entrance of the room is constricted by low ‘walls’ of fire hose wrapped around discarded car tires, window fans, and other household objects. A full scale fire escape hangs from the ceiling in the center of the room, its black bars and steps representing both the possibility of escape, and the suggestion of danger and imprisonment. Perhaps the most arresting work is Sky Juice, 1993, a shredded red Coca-Cola umbrella attached to an iron fence jampacked with a huge mass of worker’s gloves encrusted with the faded crystalline residue of dried up ‘Tropical Fantasy’ soda that Ward had poured over them. His subtle, nuanced use of soda bottles as a historical allusion to Jamaica’s sugar trade and his use of the now empty, discarded worker’s gloves simultaneously Nari Ward, Sky Juice, 1993. echo both the presence and the absence of a person, a worker, or someone departed or deserted. ~~~ Maryam Yoon
Moment Of Clarity FREE EAR PLUGS FOR ALL It’s not easy to admit but I’ve ignored the warnings for too long. As of last month I’ve finally come around to the need.. for earplugs. We hosted a show at Studio 550, that was, in true Hassle fashion, a complete melee of fringe music from the extreme ends of the timbral spectrum. We had minimal loop-pop, dark solo soul, heavenly freak-folk and...the super heavy and challenging rock band GOLD DIME. I personally enjoyed every moment but I realized that it’s not enough just to have ear plugs available for sale.. at the table..if anyone asks. We need to offer when appropriate and provide when necessary. Even with a warning, attendees could not possibly know what they were getting themselves into.. This was a truly important moment of clarity for me both as a show booker and as a music fan. As a music fan I simply decided that it’s stupid not to protect my ears, but as an organizer, it’s my responsibility to protect everyone at the show to the best of my ability from harmful forces—including, but not limited to, extreme volume! So I wanted to take this opportunity to remind my fellow Compass readers the importance of wearing ear plugs (those fitted ones rule) and to officially announce that BRAIN Arts will now give out FREE EAR PLUGS at all of our shows moving forward. Sure, wearing them is still optional (get with the program you purists) but let’s not let $1 be a deterrent to your own auditory well-being. www.brain-arts.org ~~~ Sam Potrykus *See the extended version of this column online for minor commentary from The Owens’ Randy Owen!
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In the Heat of the Night (1967) dir. Norman Jewison - screens 8/11 & 8/18
Nari Ward: Sun Splashed
FEED YOUR HEAD: FILMS FROM 1967 Fri 8/11 - Sat 9/2 @MFA
Fri 8/11 New England Rock BBQ: Ovlov (CT), Lina Tullgren (ME), Washer (NYC), and Rick Rude (NH) @The Marsh Post (Cambridge, on the river!) 7pm hang 8pm show All Ages $10 adv $12 dos. It’s cookout season, friends, and what better place to throw some shrimp on the barbie than on the shores of the mighty Mississip..err Charles River! BYOF (that’s food) and we’ll facilitate your grillin’ and chillin’ with some tenacious tunes for this midsummer night’s dream. We’ve got several flavors of ROCK for you to sample, from the honest, comforting campfire serenades of Lina Tullgren to the pine tree punk of Rick Rude, who’re leaving behind the New Hampshire wilds to sonically strip us of our inhibitions with their meandering sludge. Get down with it! Plus Exploding in Sound’s Washer will down some of their post-hardcore-fueled, pickup truck lullabies alongside label mates Ovlov whose slacker rock (on speed) paints an emotional and uncompromising picture. It’s rock, it’s fuzz, it’s outdoors. Blow off some steam and bathe in the starlight. ~~~ Mike Achille
With the notable, if somewhat dubious, exception of THE TRIP, Roger Corman’s classic contribution to the cinema of crass, corny psychsploitation (on which he collaborated with Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, and Dennis Hopper, who would get it right the next time), the films the MFA has rounded up to commemorate the Summer of Love’s 50th anniversary have little, if any, connection to the hippie counterculture that gripped the nation’s imagination in 1967. Although the era was awash in avant-garde head-fuckery (think Anger, Brakhage, Snow, inter alia), the focus here is on mainstream films consensually regarded as iconic, covering a wide range of styles and subject matter, from Mike Nichols’ literary, proto-New Hollywood THE GRADUATE and the snapshot of interracial relations provided by Stanley Kramer’s GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, through war (THE DIRTY DOZEN), Bond (YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE), murder (IN COLD BLOOD), Disney (THE JUNGLE BOOK), anti-conformism (COOL HAND LUKE), and even the tawdry, glorious melodrama disgorged by VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. The real outlier, and only non-English language selection, is Jean-Pierre Melville’s LE SAMOURAÏ, an ice-cold cocktail of Gallic noir starring the imperially blank Alain Delon as a man chasing rabbits across chessboards, starving his head. ~~~ Matthew Martens
Notes from the CREW
PLACES YOU CAN HANG Some North Shore beaches you might enjoy. Most accessible by car but the MBTA, a bike or a combination thereof works too. Stay sandy, my friends: GAS HOUSE BEACH, MARBLEHEAD (all the way down Gas House Ln off of Orne St.). Gas House Lane looks like a private driveway, but it opens up on an adorable beach in a cove. The neighborhood also features a Civil War Prison/Fort and some beautiful colonial burial grounds if you like to rub. HP Lovecraft loved this town for a reason. Cheap refreshment is a short walk back downtown. (Blue Line to Wonderland 442 bus to Marblehead, get off at the last stop) EISMAN’S BEACH, SWAMPSCOTT (Puritan Ave. opp. Smith Ln.) My favorite part of this spot is going rock climbing during from beach to beach starting here and heading north to Marblehead at low tide. Swampscott is a bourgeois food desert but Mission on the Bay seems to be running a decent pub food happy hour. Park a quarter mile away on Humphrey to avoid lot fees. Commuter Rail to Swampscott or Blue Line to Wonderland and 442 bus to Swampscott). WAIKIKI BEACH SALEM (At the End of Winter Island Road past the Plummer Youth Promise campus) This beach is adjacent to the Winter Island camp-ground which technically costs money to park and camp at, but is free on foot if you park by the Willows. A pretty path winds around the whole place leading to plenty of great make-out and 420 spots. Head to one of the willows Chinese Joints for a classic chop-suey sandwich and then play some skee ball. (Commuter Rail to Salem 450/451 us to Salem Willows/Winter Island) ~~~ Nadav Havusha
It's been 4 months since I moved to Boston, and I already feel like I can proudly say "don't hassle me, I'm local!" I've been volunteering with the Boston Hassle pretty much since I got here and I'm so grateful for the community I've gotten to know. As someone who was embedded in their local music scene back in Vermont, I was eager to find my place in the "big city", so on my first night here I went to see Xiu Xiu play at the Elks Lodge. Little did I know I would be coordinating the Hassle's volunteers just a couple of months later. I have been so impressed by the passion and pride this crew has for the Hassle and for Boston. Music has shaped my life and it brings me joy to bring it to the community with such an awesome group of people!!W If you wanna hassle us, please join us at OTTOs Pizza on August 21st! A portion of each sale will be donated to us so we can put on some dope shows, like this fall’s Hassle Fest! See you there! ~~~ Karla Noboa
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Fri 8/11 The Way Ways, Today Junior, Andy Sadoway Sat 8/19 HAAG, Tropical Trash, GASH @Some Ting @Great Scott 10pm 21+ $10 Nice 8pm All Ages $5-10 sugg. donation…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Sat 8/12 Downtown Boys (album release) with Harocaz and Elizabeth Colour Wheel @ONCE 8pm Sat 8/19 Skinny Pigeons (album release) with All Ages $13 TWEN, Goatpunch, Porno Portal to Florida @Track Shack (last show!) 8pm All Ages $5 Sat 8/12 Girls Rock Campaign Boston 2017 @ Brighton Music Hall 12pm All Ages $15 ($8 for kids 12 Sat 8/19 Sleepover Fest 2017 Day 1 featuring Cesand under) chi, Snowhaus, Evan Greer, Powdeer, The Hotelier (acoustic), Mint Green, Moonish Brute, Dump Him, Sun 8/13 Slothrust, Tancred @Great Scott 9pm 18+ Hairbrush @Collective A-Go-Go (Worcester) 2pm $13 All Ages $Donate$ **This is a SOBER event** Sun 8/13 Pinkerton Thugs, Warning Shots, Duck and Sat 8/19 Eliot Cardinaux Quartet at the Mandorla Cover @Mid East Up 1pm All Ages $ome Cost Music Series @Third Life 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
Sat 8/5 Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Dead Swords, d'arcy, Bliss @O'Brien's 8pm 21+ $8 Sun 8/6 Neurosis, Converge, Amenra @Royale 7pm 18+ $28
Tue 8/1 Illegally Blind Presents: T- Rextasy, Dump Him, Peach Ring @Lilypad 7pm All Ages $10 Sun 8/6 Ordinary Affects (Luke Martin, Laura Cetilia, J.P.A. Falzone, Morgan Evans-Weiler) Wed 8/2 Melvins, Spotlights @Paradise 7pm 18+ performs Ordinary Affects @Washington Street $20 Arts Center 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Wed 8/2 Kississippi, Pictures of Vernon , Nature Mon 8/7 Die Antwoord @Blue Hills Bank PavilShots @Mid East Up 7pm 18+ $10-12 lion 7pm All Ages $50-expensive Wed 8/2 Ruby Rose Fox with Red Tail Hawk @ MFA 7:30pm All Ages $24-30
Mon 8/7 Eye Design Presents: Muddler, Settler, Hexpet @Zuzu 10pm 21+ $5
Wed 8/2 Big Hush (DC), halfsour, Gravel, Blau Blau @ER 8pm All Ages $5-7
Tue 8/8 Non Event Presents: Erika Nesse @ Cafe Fixe 7pm All Ages $5
Thu 8/3 JESUS DRINKS FREE! 1950s-70s coun- Tue 8/8 Mew, Monakr @Sinclair 7pm 18+ $23 try, gospel, soul and RnB spun by 2 atheists @ Jeanie Johnston 9pm-Close FREE Tue 8/8 Poptone, Pow! @Paradise 7pm 18+ $25 Thu 8/3 DRI, Wreak, Sunlord, Reason to Fight, Distressor @ Alchemy (PVD) 7pm All Ages $10-12 Thu 8/3 Kississippi, Pictures of Vernon, GITL, Teenender @ UnchARTed (Lowell) 8pm All Ages $5 Thu 8/3 The Riot Shuffle Slot: Instant People featuring Gloria Rose, Sean Egan, Anthony Zonfrelli, Carrie Ross, Terence Pennington, Ethan Marsh, comic sit-in Jeff Medoff, and featuring Owen Linders + lots more @Riot Theatre (JP) 9pm All Ages $5
Tue 8/8 Ian Wayne, Winston C.W., Missile Girl, Shit Whitman (solo) @Potato Emporium 8pm All Ages $5 Wed 8/9 All Talk, Milk, Wester Green, 28 Degrees Taurus @Zuzu 10pm 21+ $5 Wed 8/9 Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Hanoied (mems of Devil Music) @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Thu 8/10 St. Ripper, System Blister, +2 Tba @ Club Bohemia 8pm 21+ $ome Cost Thu 8/10 Washer, Rick Rude, Stove, Human People @Silent Barn 8pm All Ages $10 Thu 8/10 Pixels, Spirit Ghost, Joey Sprinkles, Harvey Garbage @Alchemy (PVD) 8pm All Ages $8
Fri 8/4 Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, The Dazies, Bruvs @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $10
Fri 8/11 New England Rock BBQ: Ovlov (CT) Lina Tullgren (ME), Washer (NYC) and Rick Rude (NH) @The Marsh Post (Cambridge, on Fri 8/4 Landowner, Heavy Pockets, Gash, Fragile the river!) 7pm hang 8pm show All Ages $10 adv Rabbit @Cold Spring Hollow 8pm All Ages $7 $12 dos…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Fri 8/4 Kane-Voigt-Wright Trio @Outpost 186 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 8/5 New Parents, Old Pam, Solei @Brick House Community Center 7pm All Ages $ome Cost
Fri 8/11 The Digs Farewell Show w/ Hey Zeus, Psychic Dog, The Pickup @Mid East Up 8pm 18+ $12 Fri 8/11 Bong Wish, ZEBU!, Ash & Herb @ Lilypad 10pm All Ages $ome Cost
Sun 8/13 Casual Burn, Andy California, Love Strang- Sun 8/20 Sleepover Fest 2017 Day 2 featuring ers, American Whip Appeal @Deep Thoughts 8pm Uh-Huh, Blau Blau, Space Camp, Jake Mckelvie All Ages $5…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* & The Countertops, Benonce, Visibilities, Troll 2, Pink Navel, Walmart Romeo @Collective A-GoSun 8/13 Bob Colby's 65th Birthday Bash w/ Thalia Go (Worcester) 2pm All Ages $Donate$ **This is a Zedek, Viva Gina, Dyr Faser, The Land of Enchant- SOBER event** ment, Kingdom of Love, Cold Expectations, Carissa Johnson, The Very, Randy Black and the Heathcrop- Sun 8/20 New Zineland Zinefest @Cambridge Elks pers, The Wrong Shapes @ONCE 3pm 18+ $12 Lodge 12pm All Ages Free Sun 8/13 The Touch (OH), Strange Fate, Bombers, Similar Items + DJ 3 Ways @Koto (Salem) 9pm 21+ $ome Cost
Sun 8/20 Ozlo, Lkffct, C.R & The Degenerates, Honeymooner @Zuzu 9pm 21+ $7
Mon 8/14 The Silver Mirrors, Spo, Scotty & The Gang @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8
Mon 8/21 Hassle Fest 9 fundraiser night! @OTTO (Brookline) 5pm-9pm **8% of ALL proceeds go to putting on Hassle Fest 9!!**
Mon 8/14 Park Slug Presents: Something Sneaky, Spelling, Honeymooner, Peace Prize @Charlie’s Kitchen 8pm 21+ $ome Cost
Mon 8/21 LOONE, FINE., Told Slant (solo), Teenage Halloween @Columbus Theatre (PVD) 7pm All Ages $10
Mon 8/14 The Capitalist Kids, New Warden, Yo Tue 8/22 The Living End @ONCE 8pm 18+ $24 Ticonderoga, Hospital Beds @O'Brien's 8pm 21+ $8 Tue 8/22 Lady Mob, The Egos, Needles//Pins, Tue 8/15 French Vanilla, Nice Guys, Future Punx @ Sticker Shock @O'Brien's 8pm 21+ $8 Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10 Tue 8/22 Rixe (France), The Brass, Bombers, SecuTue 8/15 No Time (pgh), Concrete Elite (tx), Savage- rity, The Stance @Mid East Up 7pm 18+ $15 heads, Cinderblock, Piss Dogs @Ralph’s Rock Diner (Worcester) 8pm 21+ $10 Wed 8/23 MFA Music: Debo Band with Alsarah and the Nubatones @MFA 7:30pm All Ages $24-30 Tue 8/15 Puppy Problems, Silverteeth, The Water Cycle @Zuzu 8pm $ome Cost Wed 8/23 Saccharine, Tyler Daniel Bean, Boy Rex, Future Friends @O'Brien's 8pm 18+ $8 Wed 8/16 John Maus @Columbus Theatre (Providence) 7pm All Ages $12 Thu 8/24 Eyehategod, Cro-Mags @Middle East Downstairs 8pm 18+ $22 Wed 8/16 Salem Wolves, North By North, Day Grazer @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $8 Thu 8/24 Horse Jumper of Love, Blue Smiley, Brittle Brian, Dust From 1000 Years @Middle East Thu 8/17 Ian Sweet, Beeef, Baby! @Great Scott 9pm Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10 18+ $12 Thu 8/24 Creative Healing, Trigger, Crunchy (AthFri 8/18 Dick Dale @Middle East Downstairs 7pm ens) and Ozlo @Some Ting Nice (Somerville) 8pm 18+ $40 All Ages $5-10 Suggested *A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Fri 8/18 Atlas Lab (album release), Abadabad, Aubrey Haddard @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10 Fri 8/25 Stupid Idiot Summer Slam Day 1 Part 1 featuring Trapped Under Ice, Fury, Freedom, FirewalkFri 8/18 Space Camp, Ozlo, Blau Blau, Banana, Nick er @Mid East Down 5pm All Ages $15 Owen @Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $5-$10 Fri 8/25 Stupid Idiot Summer Slam Day 1 Part 2 feaFri 8/18 Spirit Level, Ziemba, Bong Wish, Hnry Flwr turing Big Contest, Glory, Ammunation @Hardcore @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $5 Stadium 9pm All Ages $8 Sat 8/19 Mark Lanegan Band, Duke Garwood, Lyenn @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 18+ $20 Sat 8/19 Planned Parenthood Benefit With XR Tabs, Bunnies, Magic Birthday, Sleeper Wave @Hex Museum (Woonsocket, RI) 7pm All Ages $Donate$ Sat 8/19 Waxahatchee, Outer Spaces, Palehound @ Royale 6pm 18+ $16
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Neutrinos, Queen Elephantine, The Daily Note, Bellerophon, Edgar Clinks, D.Valor & Pyrex Lex, 8/24 Trevor Healy, Bong Wish, Mountain Movers Hell Bent, Lady Queen Paradise, ZuKrewe @ @Sierra Grille (Northampton) 9:30pm 21+ $3 AS220 1pm All Ages $10 8/26 Oshwa, Gemma, Sodada @13th Floor Music 8/14 French Vanilla, Future Punx, Leiko, Yohafu Lounge 8pm All Ages $ome Cost @Aurora (PVD) 9pm All Ages Free
8/30 Ghost in Salad, Toulouse Control @ Feeding Tube Records (Florence, MA) 7pm All Ages $5
RHODE ISLAND: 8/11 Downtown Boys/What Cheer Duo Release Party with Milk Maid II @Aurora (PVD) 9pm All Ages $7 8/12 Foo Fest w/ Hott Boyz, Lifers, Midriffs, Minibeast, Hairspray Queen, Funeral Cone, The Funk Underground, Jodi Jolt and The Volt,
(New England) Patriots, GASH, Lightsleeper @ Sue’s (Rollinsford, NH) 7pm All Ages $5-10
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ton and Altar Boys @Space Gallery (Portland, ME) 8pm All Ages $10 7/29 Chandra Oppenheim & Dan Capaldi with the World of My Dreams Collective @Space Gallery, Portland ME< 7pm All Ages $5-10
8/2 DRI, SunLord, Jeopardy and The Path @ Stone Church (Brattleboro, VT) 7pm All Ages $12 8/14 Downtown Boys @Arts Riot (Burlington, VT) 7:30pm All Ages $12-14 8/20 Kath Bloom, Rob Noyes, Alexander @John Slade Ely House (New Haven, CT) 8pm All Ages 6/3 Bilge Rat, Greed Island, KGFREEZE, Baby $ome Cost 8/4 Cherry Glazerr, Mannequin Pussy, Gyms7/1 Cruel Summer: A Dance Party Benefit for horts @3S Artspace (Portsmouth) 9pm All Ages Planned Parenthood @Space Gallery (Portland, $10-12 ME) 9:30pm 21+ $5-15 8/9 Urochromes, Boy Harsher, Palberta (Rooftop 8/12 Greed Island (album release), Ovlov, Rick 7/8 Purse, Tall Horse, Ossalot, $300 @Space Gal- Show!) @Our Wicked Lady (Brooklyn) 8pm 21+ $10 Rude, Washer @Sue's (Rollinsford, NH) 8pm All lery (Portland, ME) 8pm All Ages $8 8/12 Summer Thunder featuring Pill, Running & Gold Ages $10 7/13 Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts with Morgan Bou- Dime @Union Pool (Brooklyn) 2pm-5pm 21+ Free
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8/20 SummerSlam featuring Tropical Trash,
8/19 Summer Thunder featuring Gun Outfit, Amps
Sat 8/26 Stupid Idiot Summer Slam Day 2 featuring Praise, Free, Abuse of Power, Vantage Point, Pummel @Hardcore Stadium 6pm All Ages $12 Sat 8/26 Gravel and Cult Fiction Tour Homecoming w/ Kal Marks and Black Beach @a spot 7:30pm All Ages $6 Sun 8/27 Surf Curse, Lala Lala @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Sun 8/27 Oshwa, Gemma and Birthing Hips Live @State Park (Cambridge) 9pm All Ages Free Mon 8/28 Washed Out @Royale 7pm 18+ $25 Mon 8/28 Simon Joyner, Damon & Naomi, David Nance @Mid East Up 7pm 18+ $10-12
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drawing by darren shekailo bostonhassle.com/volunteer Tue 8/29 A Band Ton Dare Rages: A mellow show in the woods. Featuring locals Rob Noyes, Chris Strunk, Grace Givertz, KARL, Kirsten Lamb, Danny Mekonnen, Stephanie Germaine and traveling friends... Bret Koontz (Chicago), John Bellows (Chicago), ALEXANDER (CT) and Austin Vaughn (NYC). Sundown-late. All Ages. pa$$ the hat Wed 8/30 Peaer, BABY! (album release), NOX, Strange Mangers @Mid East Up 7pm 18+ $10-12 Thu 8/31 Sheer Mag, Haram, Lost Balloons @ Sinclair 7pm All Ages $13
Wed 8/2 Drawing in the Galleries @MFA, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Thu 8/3 Feature Focus: Nari Ward: Sun Splashed @ICA, 7:00 pm Thu 8/3 I Am Not Your Negro Film Screening @ MIT List, 6:00 - 7:30 pm Sat 8/5 Nari Ward’s Naturalization Table @ICA, 1:00 - 4:00 pm Sat 8/5 Seeing Colors New Work by Anya Smolnikova @Musa Collective 4-6pm Tue 8/8 Me(dia) Response: Self-Awareness and Activism Through Art-Making | Part 1: Making a Statement @MIT List, 12:00 - 2:00 pm Wed 8/9 Drawing in the Galleries @MFA, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Thu 8/10 Feature Focus: Nari Ward: Sun Splashed @ICA, 7:00 pm Thu 8/10 Stonewall Uprising Film Screening @ MIT List, 6:00 - 7:30 pm Thu 8/10 Neighborhood Night: Block Party @ Gardner, 5:00 - 9:00 pm Sat 8/12 Music, Dance and Literature @Distillery Gallery, 6:00 - 10:00 pm Sun 8/13 Jessica Hong on Dana Schutz @ICA, 2:00 pm Wed 8/16 Conception Arts @Laugh Boston, 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm Wed 8/16 Drawing in the Galleries @MFA, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Thu 8/17 Nari Ward’s Naturalization Table @ ICA, 5:00 - 8:00 pm Thu 8/17 Stonewall Uprising Film Screening @ MIT List, 6:00 - 7:30 pm Thu 8/17 Feature Focus: Nari Ward: Sun Splashed @ICA, 7:00 pm Thu 8/17 Third Thursdays: Dog Days of Summer @Gardner, 5:30 pm Wed 8/23 Drawing in the Galleries @MFA, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Thu 8/24 Feature Focus: Nari Ward: Sun Splashed @ICA, 7:00 pm Thu 8/24 Trace: A Solei Opening @Industry Lab, 7-10pm. Performance @8pm Wed 8/30 Drawing in the Galleries @MFA, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Thu 8/31 Feature Focus: Nari Ward: Sun Splashed @ICA, 7:00 pm Thu 8/31 Stonewall Uprising Film Screening @ MIT List, 6:00 - 7:30 pm Every Wed Free Night @MFA, 4:00 - 10:00 pm Every Thurs Free Night @ICA, 5:00 - 9:00 pm Every Weekday Intro. to the Contemporary Collection @MFA, 12:00 - 12:45 pm Ongoing List Projects: Civil Disobedience Film Screenings @MIT List Ongoing Nari Ward: Sun Splashed @ICA Ongoing ICA Collection: New Acquisitions @ ICA Ongoing Dana Schutz @ICA Ongoing Listen Hear: The Art of Sound @ Gardner
Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Sat 8/12 VALLEY GIRL (1983) dir. Martha Contributing Writers: Kyle Brunet, Anders Croft, W. Coolidge @BRATTLE Logan Freeman, Oscar Goff, Matthew Martens, Nick Nic Cage as punk heartthrob Perry Sat 8/12 FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH CALENDAR BLURBS: (1982) dir. Amy Heckerling @BRATTLE Exploring the not-so-cool aspects of high school Tue 8/1 LIGHT SPELLS: FILMS BY SANDY DING @ COOLIDGE Mon 8/14 AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD Transcendent mystical Beijing 16mm (1972) dir. Werner Herzog @COOLIDGE Director in person! Presented by Balagan & Crows Herzog’s undisputed masterpiece and Sparrows Tue 8/15 RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) dir. Quentin Tarantino @COOLIDGE When a heist goes wrong, shit hits the fan Also screens 8/16 Wed 8/16 MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (2016) dir. Dash Shaw @ BRATTLE Independent animated movie about teenagers! Compass readers, sign up at bootstrapcompost.com and receive two free visits. Type 'Compass' in the Heard About sec�on.
Thu 8/3 SLACK BAY (2016) dir. Bruno Dumont @ MFA Undistillably singular family saga Franco-farce Area premiere! Screens through 8/11
Wed 8/16 WEIRD LOCAL FILM FESTIVAL @ WAREHOUSE XI Oddball homegrown cinemayhem! Thu 8/17 ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrman @Coolidge Shakespeare with a ‘90s soundtrack
Fri 8/18 DAVE MADE A MAZE(2017) dir. Bill Thu 8/3 CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) dir. Agnes Varda Waterson @BRATTLE @BRATTLE Enter the cardboard wonderland...try to get out A day in the life of Cléo Victoire alive Area premiere! Screens through 8/24 Fri 8/4 THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973) dir. Peter Yates @BRATTLE Fri 8/18 THE ROOM (2003) dir. Tommy Wiseau Forget it, Mitch, it’s Beantown @COOLIDGE New restoration! Screens through 8/6 “Oh hai Mahk!” Fri 8/4 THE LOST BOYS (1987) dir. Joel Schumacher Sat 8/19 WALL-E (2008) dir. Andrew Stanton @ @MFA HFA Dreamy vampires and Corey Feldman Pixar’s last breath of fresh air before their corporate integration Mon 8/7 MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) dir. Hayao Miyazaki @COOLIDGE Wed 8/23 KEDI (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun @BRATCome for Totoro, stay for Catbus TLE Cats cats cats cats cats Tue 8/8 KING KONG (1933) dir. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack @GREENWAY Sat 8/26 DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE Big ape in the city, IN THE CITY! (1995) dir. John McTiernan @COOLIDGE Free outdoor screening! Presented by Coolidge Reinventing Yippee Ki Yay Corner Theatre Wed 8/30 AFTER THE STORM (2016) dir. HiroWed 8/9 TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME kazu Koreeda @BRATTLE (1992) dir. David Lynch @BRATTLE Live action Ghibli? Humanist gold Lynch’s disputed masterpiece Wed 8/30 THE VOID (2016) dir. Jeremy GillesFri 8/11 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1992) dir. pie @BRATTLE Fran Rubel Kuzui @BRATTLE Cronenberg fanboys make a Cronenberg horror Before Sarah, there was Kristy flick Fri 8/11 TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) dir. Ernst Lubitsch @HFA This soliloquy distracts fascists Also screens 8/20
LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: BRATTLE - Brattle Theatre COOLIDGE - Coolidge Corner Theatre GREENWAY - Rose Kennedy Greenway HFA - Harvard Film Archive MFA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston WAREHOUSE XI - Warehouse XI (Somerville)
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