Boys and Girls will be playing at the 331 Club, Thursday night, Aug 23rd, after movies at the Ritz.

Switzerlind will be playing at the 331 Club, Thursday night, Aug 23rd, after movies at the Ritz.

Thursday Aug 23rd, 9 p.m., FREE
331 Club
331 13th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Following screenings of Let’s Make Love in London join local bands Switzerlind and Boys and Girls at the popular NE Minneapolis neighborhood bar.

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A far cry from the beloved Saturday cartoons of mornings past, Daydream Nation’s roster of 17 animated films and videos offers a vision of Sweden all grown-up, bringing unorthodox and often unsettling imagery to life. Couples on the brink, lonely mopers, professional disillusionment, and more than a few decapitation and dismemberment scenes find themselves juxtaposed against the nicer things in life: colorful origami, toy cars, dancing ladies with parasols, horses, and pretty blonde party girls. So is Sweden, then, a nation of dreamers? Well, this program, featuring vibrant work from the cosmopolitan streets of Stockholm, the up-and-coming communities of arty Göteborg, the maritime landscape of southernmost Malmö, and various expatriate outposts, dares to suggest so.

Daydream Nation’s diverse program includes work by festival favorites Klara Swantesson and Peter Larsson, whose films represented two-thirds of the 2006 nominations for “Best Short Film” at Sweden’s national version of the Oscars, the Guldbagge awards. Likewise, Sweden’s world-class contemporary music scene is ably represented, running the gamut from the macabre electronica of The Knife to the saccharine pop of The Concretes,Peter, Björn, and John, the Envelopes, and El Perro Del Mar. Also on offer are films by well-known music video directors Andreas Nilsson, Andreas Korsár, Björn Renner, and Henrik Åkerberg.

• buy tickets now
• showing: Thursday, August 23 at 9:15 p.m.
• venue: the Ritz Theater
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(Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1967, 70 min.)

The definitive document of Swinging London! One of the few filmmakers trusted within the perfumed gardens of 1960s Britain’s music and art scene, Whitehead used his unparalleled access to capture a historic pop culture moment in a kaleidoscopic film. With contributions from the likes of Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, Julie Christie, Lee Marvin and David Hockney, TONITE presents a dazzling and intimate record from the very core of the in-crowd and includes music by Pink Floyd, among many others. “Not a documentary in any ordinary sense,” wrote VARIETY, “but rather an impressionistic view of the ‘land of mod’ as seen by a sympathetic participant.”

• buy tickets now
• showing: Thursday, August 23 at 7 p.m.
• venue: the Ritz Theater

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