film.php

      Film(array(
        'filmNumber' => $filmNumber++,
        'title' => 'Low: You May Need A Murderer',
        'showing' => 'Thursday, June 31/7:00 PM/ Zinema',
        'director' => 'David Kleijwegt',
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        'bottomNotice' => 'One screening only, anticipated to sell-out; tickets must be purchased online at cinemapurgatorio.com/murderer',
        'fullDescription' => "<p>Duluth band Low has been blessed by many films over the years, with fine work from Marc Gartman, Sebastian Schrade, Phil Harder, and others.  But one film stands above the pack.  You May Need a Murderer, directed by Dutchman David Kleijwegt, is both the best film about Low and one of the best films about Duluth.</p>
 
<p>Shot for Dutch television around 2006, You May Need a Murderer catches Low in a post-apocalyptic haze.  \"The Great Destroyer\" era, with its songs about going deaf and walking into the sea, its canceled tours and other drama, has passed.  What now?</p>
 
<p>Here we see Alan Sparhawk developing songs that would be on \"Drums and Guns,\" and rocking with an early form of the Retribution Gospel Choir, while Mimi Parker endures as the anchor.  Sparhawk's apocalypticism does resurface: he quotes the LDS Doctrine and Covenants, and discusses 9/11 and his harrowing song \"Murderer.\"  But, life goes on -- witness the counterpoint of \"When I Go Deaf\" with Sparhawk out for a jog.</p>
 
<p>Murderer has few peers among films depicting deep, conflicted love for Duluth, though Venus of Mars and Far North come to mind.  Like those films, Murderer depicts a creative individual not in sync with the region's reigning disappear-into-the-woods romanticism.  Murderer's finest moments include what first seem like filler: a reference to Duluth as Timbuktu, scenes of Sparhawk on the Point of Rocks.  Yet these rank with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's and F. Scott Fitzgerald's passages about dreamers gazing out on Gitchee Gumee.</p>
<p>- R.C. Privett</p>
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        'shortDescription' => "When Ian Harvey set out to row across Lake Superior for charity in 2005, they called him 'The Crazy Irishman' crazy to row 400 miles in a single scull boat across the largest freshwater lake in the world.",
        'imageURL' => 'images/films/IMG_0086.JPG'
      ));