The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

UPDATED August 7th to correct address blooper.

Millennium- The Story, a short film about Stieg Larsson, author of   The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, will be shown one time only at The Loft. Free.

Doors open at 10 am for the 11 am screening. There are no advance tickets and seating is strictly limited, so it’s first come first, first seated.

We’re big fans of Lisbeth Salander–she of the tattoo–and plan to get in line early, take our seats and settle back with a couple of “Millennium Mimosas” (not free) from the snack bar.

From The Loft’s announcement:

The MILLENNIUM trilogy by Swedish author Stieg Larsson is THE literary phenomenon of the last decade, with 15 million books sold worldwide, 25 translations in over 40 countries, and a movie (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, based on the first novel in the trilogy) that has blasted box-office records all across the world. And now with the release of the movie version of THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, the second installment in the series, the Millennium saga continues …

This short (52 minute0 documentary portrait of Stieg Larsson reveals the story of an outstanding success – a worldwide phenomenon who, at the age of 50, died from a sudden heart attack before his first novel was even published. In the film, Larsson’s fascinating real-life story is analyzed by close friends and relatives; by his publisher, his journalist colleagues and by various professionals who have worked on the films, including Swedish producer Soren Staermose and leading actors Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist, who play Lizbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.

The second film in the series, The Girl Who Played With Fire, opens at The Loft Friday, August 13th.

The Loft is located at 3233 East Speedway

“Spies” is the eleventh in Furst’s elegant series of espionage novels recreating the psychological and political tensions gripping Europe during the early Thirties and the first years of World War Two.

Critics agree that Furst has raised the spy novel above the level of mere thrillers. (Although I must admit I’m a big booster of “mere” thrillers.) The point, I think, is that his descriptions of European societies is so subtile, so nuanced, the writing so economical and at the same time so evocative….that it might have been the work of Marguerite Yourcenar or Irene Nemirovsky.

The novels stand alone, each with its significant protagonist, and can be read in any sequence they may fall to hand. Yet because the venue for the whole series is Europe within a restricted time span the series approaches being a single huge literary work.

Characters disappear, reappear, are referred to or remembered by other characters. And in one delightful literary conceit a Parisian brasserie, the scene of a shootout in one novel and a gathering of spies in another is present in each book; sometimes fully fledged and sometime like the ghost of a memory, something caught, almost, out of the corner of your eye.

There was an excellent interview of Alan Furst by Steve Inskeep on today’s Morning Edition. Click here.

An Evening of Long-Form Improvisation

Saturday, April 10

7:30 P.M.

The Rogue Theatre

300 E. University Blvd.

Admission is “Pay-What-You-Will”

Maybe something funny, maybe something poignant, maybe something downright dramatic–we don’t know how it will all turn out, but we’re making something up on the spot so that you can discover it with us.  Please join us for a night of theatre games and improvisation scenes–just for the heck of it!

Free Off-Street Parking

See Map and Parking Information

Parking and Box Office open at 6:30 P.M.

For more information, call (520) 551-2053 or visit TheRogueTheatre.org.

And, in preparation for the opening of the Rogue’s presentation of Othello  (April 29th  thru May 16)…book club events!

Book Club Discussions

The Rogue Theatre will be meeting with book clubs in early April in advance of the opening of Shakespeare’s Othello on April 29th.

On Thursday, April 8, at 7:00 P.M., we will hold a discussion of Othello at The Rogue Theatre, 300 University Boulevard in the Historic Y. Several Rogue actors will be on hand. Members of Pima County Public Library book clubs, members of other book clubs, and the general public are all invited.

Admission is free.

On Thursday, April 15, from 12:00 to 1:00 P.M., artistic director Joseph McGrath and artistic associate David Morden of The Rogue Theatre will lead a lively discussion of Othello with the Main Library Book Club at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library in downtown Tucson. For those attending the book club a two-hour free parking validation is available for the garage directly below the library. All are invited to bring their lunches for this free program.

More information can be found here.