Hi all,
It has been a busy time over here at the Hassle!
We hope that you all have been finding time to relax this summer, but we also can’t wait to get back in to the swing of things in the Fall — Hassle style!
We’ll see you folks around, but until then, enjoy this week’s newsletter!
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The Hassle’s Artist of the Week!
SHAYA
About Shaya: As a Sri Lankan American artist, I feel like I never had a brown influence to look up to in the music industry growing up. I want to empower women like me to pursue a career in music. South Asian music is seldom heard in western culture and I bring elements of my cultural roots to my music. Representation in the music industry as a Sri Lankan woman is important to me!
Genres: Chill rnb/indie, blending electronic, alternative, rnb & pop
Film Recs from Senior Film Critic, Oscar Goff
PICK OF THE WEEK: Trailer Treats + Zardoz (1974) dir. John Boorman
Screens Thursday, 7/14, 7:00 @ Brattle Theatre
I know, we’re all sick of too many trailers before a movie, but hear me out: what if the movie is all trailers? One of the summer’s most beloved cinematic traditions returns to the Brattle with the 19th annual Trailer Treats festival, featuring a smorgasbord of the strangest and juiciest trailers from the theater’s extensive collection (all screened on 35mm!). I recommend keeping a pen handy, to keep track of all the demented movies you’ll need to track down after seeing the trailer. As a bonus, stick around after the main event for a screening of John Boorman’s 1974 gonzo sci-fi classic Zardoz, subject of one of the greatest trailers of all time!
REPERTORY HIGHLIGHTS:
Tremors (1990) dir. Ron Underwood - Free outdoor 35mm screening presented by the Coolidge! - 7/13 @ Rose Kennedy Greenway
Memoria (2021) dir. Apitchatpong Weerasethakul - 35mm return engagement - 7/15-7/18 @ Brattle
Don’t Fall Asleep: A Nightmare on Elm Street Marathon - 7 Freddy Krueger movies on 35mm, all night long! - 7/16 @ Coolidge
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) dir. Melvin Van Peebles - Double feature w/ Story of a Three-Day Pass - 7/17-7/18 @ Somerville
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller - 7/18 @ Coolidge
NEW RELEASES OF NOTE:
Flux Gourmet (2022) dir. Peter Strickland (Brattle)
Poser (2021) dir. Noah Dixon & Ori Segev (Kendall) - Director in person 7/16!
Both Sides of the Blade (2022) dir. Claire Denis (Coolidge)
STILL PLAYING, WORTH SEEING:
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Music Section
NOW ENTERING: THE TRASH RABBIT RENAISSANCE
“‘TRASH RABBIT SUCKS.’
If you have ever been to a Trash Rabbit show, the aforementioned phrase will most likely be familiar to you. Die-hard fans of this Boston-based punk project ping-pong the words around the room at the top of their lungs while aggressively head-banging and moshing to the band’s fuzzed-out, feverish downpour of torrential sound.”
- SOPHIE SEVERS
UNTANGLING STILL WITH FRED KELLY
“For someone heading a solo project, Fred Kelly has no problem lauding others for the creative successes of their new release, still.
The EP, released June 24, stemmed from a song-a-day writing exercise that began in 2020. Kelly, (a Boston-turned-Chicago-based artist), and Joe Kerwin (The Water Cycle) would write up and send each other voice memos every day, and then offer each other feedback on what ended up being, cumulatively, around 40 songs.”
- Olivia Gehrke
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Film Section
REVIEW: GLASSHOUSE (2022) DIR. KELSEY EGAN
“The late Victorian glass structure of the Pearson Conservatory (built in 1882) stamps the landscape of the South African Eastern Cape with a reminder of British colonialism—and it makes one magnificent main set location for writer-director Kelsey Egan’s Glasshouse.”
- Joshua Polanski
GO TO: PENNYWISE: THE STORY OF IT (2021) DIR. CHRISTOPHER GRIFFITHS & JOHN CAMPOPIANO
“Pennywise shows up every 27 years.
This is, of course, the mythology of Stephen King’s seminal horror tome It, in which the child-eating, interdimensional nightmare clown emerges roughly four times a century to terrorize the citizens of Derry, Maine. But it seems true enough in real life, as well: exactly 27 years before the blockbuster movie adaptation by Andy Muschietti, Pennywise graced our small screens in the landmark two-part It miniseries, in the form of the legendary Tim Curry. The 1990 It may not be quite as slick as the 2010s films, but it is no less iconic, and Curry’s Pennywise is burned into the psyches of an entire generation of hapless children who stumbled across him while channel-surfing.”