La Boheme -- Saturday morning at 11, the Enzian’s “Opera on the Big Screen” offers up a straight-outta-Barcelona production of the Puccini classic. Hey, remember that part in Batman Begins where Bruce got freaked out by Die Fledermaus and the whole family had to go outside so Mom and Dad could get plugged? There’s your opera connection right there! Nifty piggyback programming, art-house peeps!
The Gold Rush -- The 11 a.m. Sunday slot in Enzian’s ongoing KidFest is given over to Charlie Chaplin’s 1925 comedy about a solitary prospector forced to interact with some “burly characters” in Alaska. Hmmm The Dark Knight Rises also depicts an overmatched loner going up against a burly antagonist. Coincidence? I say thee nay!
Jason and the Argonauts -- And finally, Sunday’s KidFest program ends with a 1:15 p.m. lesson in the stop-motion wizardry of Ray Harryhausen, as applied to Greek mythology in 1963’s sword-and-sorcery epic. The skeleton army is nearly as fearsome as as Bane’s battalion of the starving homeless! (Good thing that’s the last of the weekend options; these analogies were starting to border on the tasteless.)
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