Happy July, All!
We hope that you all are staying well and keeping cool in the summer heat. We’ve been busy over at the Hassle making plans and trying to make the publication better and better. Thanks again for all of your support, we literally couldn’t do what we do without you all!
We’ll see you folks around, but until then, enjoy this week’s newsletter!
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The Hassle’s Band of the Week!
RACHEL SUMNER AND TRAVELING LIGHT
About Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light: Lush and acoustic stringband music for original songs. Very lyric forward, lots of snaking chord progressions. We love the Punch Brothers and I'm With Her and I think it shows!
Genres: Folk, Stringband, Acoustic Singer-Songwriter, Bluegrass Adjacent
Upcoming Shows:
Concert dates linked HERE
Socials: Instagram, Facebook, BandCamp, Spotify, YouTube, Website
Film Recs from Senior Film Editor, Oscar Goff!
PICK OF THE WEEK: PENNYWISE: THE STORY OF IT (2021) dir. Christopher Griffiths & John Campopiano
Screens Saturday, 7/9 @ Coolidge Corner Theatre - Midnight!
Everybody loves a clown– so why don’t you? Directed by Christopher Griffiths and friend of the Hassle John Campopiano, Pennywise is a loving, exhaustively researched look at the making of the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s timeless and influential horror tome, complete with rarely seen behind-the-scenes footage and new interviews with much of the cast and crew (including Seth Green and the legendary Tim Curry!). Presented as part of the Coolidge’s month-long “Carnage at the Carnival” midnight movie series, Campopiano will be on hand for a special in-person introduction to the doc’s local premiere.
REPERTORY HIGHLIGHTS:
Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz - 35mm - 7/7 @ Coolidge
Lost in America (1988) dir. Albert Brooks - 7/8 @ Brattle
Toby Dammit (1968) / The Temptation of Dr. Antonio (1962) dir. Federico Fellini - Short film double feature - 7/9 @ HFA
Rabid (1977) dir. David Cronenberg - Midnight screening - 7/9 @ Somerville
CatVideoFest 2022 - 7/10 @ Coolidge
The Living End (1992) dir. Gregg Araki - 7/11-7/12 @ Brattle
Coffy (1973) dir. Jack Hill / Shaft (1971) dir. Gordon Parks - Double feature (Shaft on 35mm!) - 7/12-713 @ Somerville
NEW RELEASES OF NOTE:
Beba (2021) dir. Rebeca Huntt (Coolidge)
Thor: Love and Thunder (Capitol, Kendall, pretty much everywhere else)
The Sea Beast (Netflix)
STILL PLAYING, WORTH SEEING:
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Music Section
WENT THERE: SPY AT THE MIDDLE EAST
“A friend asked me what my favorite show was so far this year. I thought back on what had to be at least four dozen shows before replying — It was SPY at the Middle East.
I was lucky, catching the crew in Cambridge, MA in a room full of friends and family. I was already a fan, but didn’t expect their set to haunt my daydreams for weeks. So, following the show, I reached out to speak with them — I had to know more.”
- ABBIE BATEMAN
WENT THERE: PIT-A-PALOOZA WITH C.O.A
“The submerged area leading down to Harvard Square MBTA station, also known as “The Pit” has garnered both appreciation and infamy since it was built in the early 80s. The “Pit Rats” who frequented the space remember it fondly as a place where artistic expression and individuality flourished while others saw the space and its inhabitants as an eyesore and a nuisance. Whichever way you look at it, the recent plans to fill in The Pit are another sign of rendering Boston unfamiliar to those who spent their lives enveloped in its culture.”
- Ryan O’Connor
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Film Section
GO TO: LOST HIGHWAY (1997) DIR. DAVID LYNCH
“Much like his most famous creation, David Lynch was in a sort of limbo in the mid ‘90s. Though now rightly considered a masterpiece, his 1992 Twin Peaks prequel Fire Walk With Me was largely greeted as a misfire, booed at Cannes and rejected by fans seeking closure to the prematurely canceled series. The sitcom On the Air, Lynch’s follow-up network TV collaboration with Mark Frost, was canned even more quickly, with only four of its six episodes making it to air.”
- Oscar Goff
REVIEW: APPLES (2020) DIR. CHRISTOS NIKOU
“Disciples of the Greek Weird Wave may have instilled a set level of concern for on-screen characters in peculiar situations. In preparing for Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film Poor Things, I plan on performing a psychological factory reset so that moral normalcy doesn’t feel as jilted. Director Christos Nikou, who had worked with Lanthimos on The Lobster, sets sail to the weird island of Apples, where amnesia is a contagion. Those who show signs of forgetfulness or memory loss are taken to the Disturbed Memory Department. There, a team of white coats tries to help establish new identities for the “unclaimed,” or people who don’t have a family or friend system to confirm who they were before.”