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'Death at a Funeral Sneak Preview at the Coolidge'
Death at a Funeral will screen at Coolidge Corner on Thursday,
August 2, at 7:30. Passes are available the day of the screening on
a first-come, first-served basis.
Frank Oz is swell because of the Muppet connection. Then again, he
gave us that dreadful Stepford Wives remake. Frank, how could you?
Oz is now redeeming his directing career by taking the Robert Altman
path and looking to the UK for help. Altman turned to British
murder-mystery after the lame Dr. T and the Women - and Gosford Park
was one of his best.
Death at a Funeral isn't a murder-mystery, but it follows the
hi-jinks that result after a family patriarch dies, a stranger with
a secret (Peter Dinklage) shows up at the funeral, acid or something
like it gets dropped, and somebody gets naked. One reviewer who
wasn't impressed said, "the ensuing lewd madness is of a Three's
Company variety."
But the screening is free, and, if you like Three's Company, then
you might enjoy this one. On the downside, it's debatable if Death
at a Funeral is the movie that will polish up Oz' reputation.
Paul Dano, Peter Dinklage, Josh Hamilton, and Zoe Kazan will star
in The New Group's production of Jonathan Marc Sherman's Things We
Want, to play Theatre Row in October. The production will be
directed by Ethan Hawke, who co-starred in the company's acclaimed
revival of David Rabe's Hurlyburly.
The play focuses on three brothers living together and struggling to
cope after the death of their parents. Sherman's previous work
includes Sophistry and Women and Wallace.
Dano's stage credits include the 1996 Broadway revival of Inherit
the Wind. Dinklage starred in the title role of the Public Theater's
Richard III. Hamilton's many stage credits include The Coast of
Utopia as well as Hurlyburly. Kazan co-starred opposite Cynthia
Nixon in The New Group's production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
The New Group season will also include Mike Leigh's Two Thousand
Years, directed by Scott Elliott, and Kevin Elyot's Mouth to Mouth,
directed by Mark Brokaw.
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