Hedwig and the Angry Inch
R
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1 hr 30 min
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1/19/2001
NEVADA THEATRE 6/30: The Onyx Downtown teams up with Nevada County Pride as we conclude our retrospective on movie musicals with HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH!
With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll.
Tue
25
This movie is shown at the Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street, Nevada City. There are no age restrictions at the Nevada Theatre, though not all films are suitable for children.
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- Genre:Comedy drama, Music
- Director:John Cameron Mitchell
- Cast:John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor