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Win The Trip to Italy – Screening Passes in Philly
What does Alanis Morissette, Tom Hardy's muffled voice as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, sex with a female pirate, the poet Shelly being jealous of his Frankenstein birthing wife or dueling impersonation have to do with a foodie film about eating in some of the finest restaurants on Amalfi Coast, Rome, Liguria and other gorgeous Italian locales?
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Here’s a Taste of: FRANCES HA
I walked into this film distracted, I was worried I’d just spent too much on lunch, (although an enjoyable one at Pizzeria Stella (post to come) and by the fact that I was supposed to meet up with someone in the lobby before the film about other Tinsel & Tine business, but realized my last text to him didn’t go thru, right as my phone battery was going into the red. The movie’s starting, but I have to find a place to charge my phone and hope no one steals it from the back of the theater. Normally, such circumstances would have me somewhat detached from what I’m watching, instead…
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On tap: Sleepwalk With Me
Is it a laughing matter to be so completely out of it that you jump through a 2nd story glass window only to wake up bloody, bruised, and a hairsbreadth away from having bled to death? Surprisingly, it is! comedian/writer/director/producer/actor Mike Birbiglia has put together a rather amusing film about standup comedy, fear of marriage, family pressures and sleep disorders called Sleepwalk With Me. I was under the impression this film, which premiered at Sundance 2012, was a documentary. It’s not, it’s a narrative comedic feature. Although it is based on Birbiglia’s real life; as is, his one-man off-Broadway play, comedy album, best-selling book, TV special and segments on the…
