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Wednesday, February
14
Admission: Free, Prix Fixe Menu Only
Showtime: 6pm - Midnight
reservations
are recommended
NOTE: we only have reservations available
from 10:30pm and later in the Screening Room
and we only have talbes available from 10pm and later
in the Front Dining Room
From the same director as Tears
of the Black Tiger (2000),
Wisit Sasanatieng's follow-up, Citizen
Dog (2004), is an
absurdist, heroic, visionary melodrama with a highy stylized design,
doubled-dipped with highly saturated colors. The closest stylistic
comparison might be Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amelie,
City of Lost Children and Delicatessen.
Tears of the Black Tiger
recently played at Film Forum (after years in Miramax limbo) and
received rave reviews from the NY Times, Time Out, and The Voice.
Citizen Dog shares the same
fetishized attention to brilliant colors and fantastic realities
-- where Grandmothers take the form of lizards and severed fingers
are reattached with new personalities.
One review
says:
"Sasanatieng has created a film for those who enjoy deciphering
images for their sheer metaphorical value. For those who have
no such interest, it is a film that can be enjoyed for its visual
splendour alone. Citizen Dog heads Thai cinemas 2005 charge, and
there is no doubt that this film confirms Sasanatieng’s
place as one of the major directors leading the way."
Citizen Dog will screen
3 times and in between and overlapping we will play DJ The Invisible
Hand's rarely heard "Greatest Hits of Simon Garfunkel."
Half remix album, half tape collage, half audio diary, this romantic
tape was recorded in Montauk, New York, Oct-Dec 2001. "I'd
always been a huge fan of Simon Garfunkel, but could no longer
hear his Greatest Hits without collapsing into the n-hole. This
was the first in my series of anti-nostalgia remixes."
The point being...no matter when you join the show...the show
will go on and on...
AND now for your PRIX FIXE Choices:
Chocolate Prix Fixe ($50)
1st course: (choice of)
Bitter Hot Chocolate Soup with Tempura battered Plums
OR
Mixed Green Salad with Lime Chocolate Chili Vinaigrette
2nd Course: (choice of)
Pan Seared Sea Bass with Chocolate infused Spicy Mole Sauce
OR
Pan Roasted Pork Tenderloin with fresh aragula salad sweet potato
puree and warm chocolate poriage dipping sauce
OR
Veggie Blue Plate
Intermezzo:
White Chocolate Cremeux, blood orange and thyme oil
3rd Course: (choice of)
Artisanal Cheese and Smoked Chocolate Fondue
OR
Cardamom Chocolate Fondant, curry ganache, passion fruit reduction
malt gelato
includes our very seasonal cocktail...Passion and 'Pagne
Non-Chocolate Prix Fixe ($40)
1st course: (choice of)
Truffle Honey Roasted Pear Salad goat cheese croquettes, baby
arugula, & balsamic reduction
OR
Spicy Grilled Squid Salad braised lemongrass, arugula, cantaloupe,
cucumber, soy reduction
2nd Course: (choice of)
Pan Seared Striped Bass, dashi-yuzu broth, baby bok choy, roasted
shitakes
OR
Spiced Braised Short Ribs, celery root purée, curried oatmeal
cake, fricassée of cipollini onions, haricot vert, baby
heirloom carrots
Intermezzo:
White Chocolate Cremeux, blood orange and thyme oil
3rd Course: (choice of)
Sticky Coconut Cake, thai mango salad, Greek yogurt gelato, chili
infused honey
OR
Bittersweet Chocolate Fondant, lemon-rose foam, yogurt ice cream
includes our very seasonal cocktail...Passion and 'Pagne
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