REEL TALK: MOVIES RATED BY CORLEONES

CAPE SPIN | TOM HAGEN

Being pro-environment and pro-green energy is easy to say, but it’s tricky to put into practice as someone who got C’s in Earth Science. I’m for whatever gives us the best, cleanest, cheapest power; I just have no idea what that actually means in terms of what needs to be subsidized, banned, etc. Cape Spin is a new documentary that takes a look at both sides of the ongoing Nantucket Sound/Cape Wind debacle to find out who, in the middle of all this insanity, knows what the hell they’re actually talking about. [NR | Coolidge Corner Theatre, Fri 6.15.12]

WHORES’ GLORY | LUCY MANCINI

Documentarian Michael Glawogger is known for films that feel closer to visual poetry or meditations than exposés, even while dealing with such real-world concepts as global working conditions or urban sprawl. This is especially true of Whores’ Glory, which follows the state—and increasing normalization of—global prostitution, especially focusing on Southeast Asia. The film’s most vocal critics accuse it of glamorizing its subject, but the film is so achingly personal that it ends up being one of its strengths. [NR | Kendall Square Cinema, Fri 6.15.12]

THE GREAT GATSBY | DON VITO

Baz Luhrmann’s version of The Great Gatsby will be hitting theaters this Christmas, so before that happens, take some time to brush up on other times people have tried. This is not the first, but it’s probably the most memorable, with Robert Redford in the lead and a script by Francis Ford Coppola. Some praise it for its adherence to the novel. Some say it follows the events while losing the tone. It’s an interesting piece of history either way, so give it a shot. [PG | Harvard Film Archive, Mon 6.18.12]

HIGH CHICAGO | CARLO RIZZI

Join director Alfons Adetuyi and writer Robert Adetuyi at this screening of their gritty drama, which tells the story of a gambling-addicted father who, after bottoming out, gets a second chance by opening a drive-in theater in Africa. But once an addict, always an addict. Can he keep it together long enough for this new life to take hold? Check it out. [NR | Museum of Fine Arts, Fri 6.15.12]