Movies tip sheet: Gummo, Monsters, and Akira
Gummo
Still shocking after all these years, Harmony Korine’s astounding 1997 debut kicks off a weeklong retrospective of the filmmaker’s work, titled Harm, at the Cinematheque on Thursday (November 8).
Monsters
This filmed document of the 2017 stage show mounted by Vancouver’s Miscellaneous Productions, working with at-risk youth, screens at the Annex on Thursday (November 8).
Akira
We’re only a year away from the postnuke Neo-Tokyo setting imagined in Otomo Katsuhiro’s classic, which is receiving two 30th-anniversary screenings at the Vancity Theatre, on Saturday and Sunday (November 10 and 11).
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