Quadruple Feature

All sorts of firsts at a/perture this weekend. Here's your chance to spend a full day watching four different movies, although that would mean you were the last people in town to see either The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo or Babies. Both have been wildly popular, so we couldn't decide which one to keep, so we kept both. Being added to the slate are Burzynski and Ajami. Something for everyone, really. Documentaries, foreign films, thrillers, cute little babies, commentaries on religion and government - maybe one doesn't fit as well with the others, but that's the beauty of it all.

Seriously, these are some amazing movies. Ajami was a 2010 Oscar nominee for best foreign picture, made by a Jewish Israeli and an Arabic Israeli, with a stellar rating of 96% - certified fresh - on rottentomatoes.com. Our own movie critic extraordinaire for Yes! Weekly Mark Burger has declared The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a shoe-in for being nominated in 2011 for best foreign film, and proclaimed it could be in Swahili, and it wouldn't matter, because the acting is that spot on. Burzynski could be an Oscar nominee itself, based on its early festival run, selling out and winning awards right and left. And we have the director in on Friday and Saturday. How awesome is that? And Babies, well, as I've been telling everyone who has asked if I've seen it, I have my hands plenty full with our own 2 and 1/2 year old, so I can't justify spending over an hour in a quiet, dark room watching other babies - wait a second, this could be the exact respite I need. And they're all sooooo cute!

That's not even counting the world premiere of Beach Week on Sunday night at 7:30pm (check out their facebook page for more information and the trailer, and become a fan).

Ajami trailer, to prove that 96% wun't no fluke.