Tonight at the Harvard Exit at 7 pm there’s Bobby Fischer Against the World:
Chess master Bobby Fischer was a total fucking freak, and this documentary tells you all about it. He started out just a weird prodigy, but eventually became a crazed anti-Semite who was super into 9/11. Starred for total fucking freak factor!
Also, High Road, which I quite loved! (My interview with director Matt Walsh is here.) It’s at the Egyptian at 9:30:
This largely improvised feature from the founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade “plays out like a stoner version of a French farce,” according to the SIFF people, “complete with misunderstandings, sexual innuendo, and even a little cross-dressing.”
If you find your body in Kirkland for some reason, the Kirkland Performance Center has Gandu for your eyeballs at 6:30 pm:
Gandu, which means “asshole” in Hindi, is about Gandu, a poor street beatboxer/asshole who makes friends with Ricksha, a Bruce Lee devotee/rickshaw driver. The story’s not really the point, though. Bandu is an anti-Bollywood manifesto. No colors, no heroes, no adventure, just rap soliloquies and a story that intentionally goes nowhere. “My life is a fucking fart,” Gandu comments. They smoke something—crack I think—out of a tinfoil dish, and get so high that the narrative begins to unravel. Poetic, brilliant, and sort of boring, Gandu feels short enough that the endless parade of confusing shit remains novel rather than exhausting. ERNIE PIPER IV
Plus all this other stuff! And more tomorrow!
He was a Jewish Anti-Semite, who did not support the state of Israel. That alone should not brand someone as a crazy person.
Might want to point out that both the Bobby show tonight and Old Goats (7pm, egyptian) are both under the “selling quickly” category, meaning they will be crowded (and also possibly will be sold out). Arrive early.
I saw BFATW last night on HBO. Asberger’s, Autism, Schizo – he was never a sane person.
Why the fuck does Lindy West even bother? Posting “picks” of the day in the late afternoon helps no one. I suspect that “High Road” might be one of 3 fest films she’s even see. Come on Stranger, you and Seattle have many more interesting voices to cover film, quit pretending she’s a film editor.