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Happily, said infant has proved a game companion for late-night film viewing—my favorite kind, at least at home. The kid is wide open: she's exactly as will ing to undertake Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows as Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (though she clearly finds the former's hushed conversations and slow, inexorable rhythm more agreeable). A 4 a.m. passout to Terminator 2: Judgment Day is just great; so is a catch-as-catch-can sampling of Exit Through the Gift Shop. A Don Siegel dou ble feature of Dirty Harry and Private Hell 36? Count her in. Same goes for the wrongly dis missed Hereafter, with cinematographer Tom Stern's deep blacks and cool, saturated palette t contributing, as always, to director Clint Eastwood’s ; air of legitimate, unforced j moral and emotional seri- j ousness—here accompanied : by a pervasive melancholy ■ (at least that's what baby thinks). So, yeah, it's been fun. Our latest enjoy ment has been watching the first part of George Harrison: Living in the Material World on HB0 ("we" spaced on recording the second part, and now it won't be rebroadcast for awhile—let's hope for a robust theatrical release now that its New York Film Festival and TV premieres are out of the way). Director Martin Scorsese is giving "the quiet one" the full Dylan treatment here, and the alternate history of the Beatles from his perspective is very welcome. Scorsese assumes everyone knows the story—not just the iconic narra tive arc. but relatively obscure details like Stuart Sutcliffe and Astrid Kirchherr's love affair—and doesn't waste time on exposition or bother with strict adherence to the histori cal timeline. Instead, George is revealed in a graceful progress of movements, through often rare archival clips and images and rea sonably candid and insightful interviews with important friends like Paul and Ringo, Yoko Ono and Eric Clapton (who's probably still pay ing Scorsese back for what he did for "Layla" with that masterful montage in Goodfellas— now, safe to say, one of the most memorable moments in American film). One could quibble with the "authorized biography" syndrome that's sometimes apparent—while there are plenty of references to George's struggles to balance his spirituality with his "anger," nobody ever gets specific, at least not in Part One—but we're not really watching this for the dirt, are we? It's easy to love George, and Scorsese clearly does. Maybe he's saving the warts-and-all treatment for the drummer. Let Your Voice Be Heard: The nonprofit Film Athens, which works to promote and support film production, exhibition and culture in this community, would like to know what you want from them. You can take a survey at www. filmathens.net to help the organization better tailor its services and offerings to local film proponents and professionals (and if you're one of the latter, be sure to get yourself listed in the Film Athens production directory). Go ahead and do it right now, while you're think ing of it. Y Coming Up at Cine: The Future, the new film from writer/director/actress Miranda July, opens at Cine this Friday, Oct. 14. July's debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know, reminded me of what a Todd Solondz film might be like if he regarded his characters as human. That's a good thing; I'm looking forward to July's new one... Mysteries of Lisbon, the highly acclaimed final film by the incredibly prolific Chilean director Raul Ruiz, who died in August, is scheduled to open Oct. 21. The four-and-a-half-hour epic, based on a Portugese novel by Camilo Castelo Branco, will be screened in two parts... A new cycle of Cine Classics begins Oct. 21 with Psycho, which will run as a late show through Halloween. Fun!... And heads up: the VHS: Videographer's Hella-Big Show and Gonzoriffic collectives, both of which show case original works by local filmmakers, have their new installments coming up at Cine Oct. 20 and Oct. 21-22, respectively. Get on www. athenscine.com to find out more about all of this stuff. It's Not Local, but Still: Anyone who's seri ously interested in film history and has some spare time (and reliable transportation) should consider heading over to the High Museum in Atlanta for MoMA's Modern Masters of Film: From Edison to Scorsese. The weekly series begins Oct. 15 with The Story of Temple Drake, a 1933 Paramount adaptation of William Faulkner's Sanctuary (!) starring Miriam Hopkins, which was recently restored by MoMA and Turner Classic Movies. Find out all about it at www.high.org. Never Mind: Remember that column I wrote a couple of weeks ago, all (well, mostly) about how Netflix is splitting its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services into two separate companies, much to everyone's confusion and consternation? Well... never mind. In an Oct. 10 post on his P.R. "blog" on the company website, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that there will be no."Quikster"—I repeat, NO QUIKSTER!—and Netflix customers will be able to continue paying only one company each month and, more importantly, continue to maintain only one "queue" for both stream ing and DVDs. So, there's that. The question is, does this add or detract from the present uncertainty in the world of home film view ing? And the answer is: both. Dave Marr film@flagpole com The Future, directed by and starring Miranda July, is scheduled to open at Cine Friday. Oct. 14. 14 FLAGPOLE COM OCTOBER 12, 2011
