By Colin Covert Minnesota Film Arts, newly transplanted to the riverside St. Anthony Main cinema, has announced its inaugural schedule, a cavalcade of recent foreign films, American indies and documentaries. MFA's first season at its new location begins with "La Danse," documentary master Frederick Wiseman's backstage look at the world renowned Paris Opera Ballet. "La Danse" follows impossibly graceful, athletic and beautiful young men and women rehearsing and/or performing seven ballets, including "Genus" by Wayne McGregor, "The Nutcracker" by Rudolf Nureyev, "Medea' by Angelin Preljocaj, "Romeo and Juliet" by Sasha Waltz and "Orpheus and Eurydyce" by Pina Bausch.The film runs Friday, Jan. 29 through Feb. 11, screening Fri., Sat. and Sun. at 12:45, 4 and 7:30 p.m.; Mon. through Thurs.at 4 and 7:30. On view in February and beyond are are: "That Evening Sun" starring Hal Holbrook as an aging Tennessee farmer in a blood feud over ownership of his land; "Waiting for Armageddon," a nonfiction film about the apocalyptic beliefs of American evangelicals; "Collapse" and "The Yes Men Fix the World," documentaries about oil depletion and corporate hoaxters; "The Sun," Russian director Alexander Sukurov's impressionistic portrait of Emperor Hirohito on the eve of Japan's WWII surrender (note: this trailer is not subtitled; the film is); "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done," Werner Herzog's police drama of madness and matricide, starring Willem Dafoe, Michael Shannon and Chloe Sevigny; and "Troubled Water" a Norwegian feature about the killing of a child, guilt and redemption. (The print screened will carry English subtitles.) The St. Anthony Main Theater is located at 125 Main St. SE, Minneaolis. Tickets: $5 - $8.50. Free parking is available with a theater ticket in the nearby St. Anthony ramp.
about the writer
colincovert
Special report: Go behind Minnesota's pro-athlete curtain to see how the best athletes in our state get ready for their biggest moment: gameday.