Movies to see this week in the Twin Cities: Metallica Film Fest, 'The Shining,' Sound for Silents
By Dustin Nelson,
2024-08-14
There's a fair amount of music in this week's roundup of movies.
Metallica's "takeover" of Minneapolis includes a film festival (to stretch the meaning of the label) of three documentaries on the band, the Sound Unseen music and movies festival presents a new feature on Juggalos, and the Walker Art Center is hosting an outdoor screening of silent films with live music.
But there are plenty of classics on tap as well — The Shining , Akira Kurosawa samurai classics, Young Frankenstein , and the original Twister among them — if you're not looking to catch the latest Alien movie.
Here are five movies to catch this week around the Twin Cities.
The 2024 edition of the Walker Art Center's Sound for Silents features newly commissioned music from multi-instrumentalist and composer deVon Russell Gray on the hillside outside the museum.
Gray's ensemble — Aridane Greif, Davu Seru, Nathan Hanson, and Andrew Broder — will provide a live score to silent films from the Walker's Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection with DJ Sarah White opening the show. 725 Vineland Pl., Minneapolis (free)
Between shows on Aug. 16 and 18 at U.S. Bank Stadium, Metallica is hosting what is billed as the “Metallica Takeover,” a series of events around town that includes cover bands, bowling, axe-throwing, and more.
It also includes the Metallica Film Festival at the Riverview Theater. It’s not really a festival, but a trio of Metallica-focused documentaries played back-to-back. The lineup features Metallica: Cliff 'Em All, Cunning Stunts , and Metallica: Orgullo Pasion y Gloria . (Notably absent is the best documentary on the band, 2004's Metallica: Some Kind of Monster .) The "festival" starts at 11 a.m. and costs just $15 to get a pass for all three films. 3800 42nd Ave S, Minneapolis ($15)
Sound Unseen's ongoing series at the Trylon presents the recently-released film Off Ramp with a post-screening Q&A with director Nathan Tape.
Off Ramp follows Trey, an ex-con and Juggalo, as he embarks on a journey to the real-life Juggalo mecca, the Gathering of the Juggalos. Trey and a friend are offered the opportunity to perform, but the path to stardom is more than treacherous as they confront a sheriff who is out to get them, drugs, and other Juggalos. 2820 E 33rd St., Minneapolis ($13)
While it wasn't a critical hit on its initial release, The Shining is a movie that needs no introduction. It's a horror classic for a reason. A trip to Stanley Kubrick's vision of Stephen King's Overlook Hotel on the big screen is worth the gas money. 3800 42nd Ave. S, Minneapolis ($5)
While MSP Film Society 's " Akira Kurosawa: Summer of Samurai" kicked off last week with a 70th anniversary print of Seven Samurai , the series gets going in earnest this week with screenings of Rashomon, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and more presentations of Seven Samurai .
There aren't any bad choices in the lineup. It's arguably a suite of Kurosawa's most revered samurai films. (I might argue for The Hidden Fortress and Red Beard 's place among these mid-career films, as well as the later classics Ran and Kagemusha .) While Seven Samurai is considered an all-time great film, and there's no doubt about the influence of Yojimbo and Rashomon , Throne of Blood deserves as much love as those better-known films.
The bloody adaptation of "MacBeth" stars, like all the other films in the series, Toshiro Mifune as the tragic protagonist, doomed to enact the prophecy he desperately seeks to avoid. 115 SE Main St., Minneapolis ($10)
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