1) The Pogues play the Tabernacle.
2) Kenson continues at Bennett Street Gallery.
3) Serbis continues at the Tara.
4) The Cook’s Warehouse hosts An Evening with Nava and Modern Southwestern Cuisine, a benefit for the Atlanta Food Bank.
5) All Small Redux continues at the Dalton Gallery.
(Photo courtesy the Pogues)
PEEP HOLE: Jaclyn Jose as Nayda in 'Serbis'
A Golden Palm nominee at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Serbis is like no multi-generational slice-of-life film you’ve ever seen. Philippine director Brillante Mendoza sets his bumptious drama at a failing adult movie house in the sprawling Philippine city of Angeles. The Pineda family not only manages the porn theater, but they also live under its roof, just a few flights of stairs away from films such as Bedmates and Young Screwpine.
Serbis’ first scene sets a tone of exhibitionism and voyeurism, as a teenage daughter vamps in the nude before a mirror while her schoolboy nephew peeps at her. The ironically named Family movie theater practically simmers with surging libidos. A young would-be painter lances a boil on his buttock in an early close-up, which interferes with his girlfriend’s subsequent visit. The Pinedas presumably turn a blind eye to the down-low prostitution that accompanies the screenings, as young rent boys and she-males ask “Serbis?” to prowling movie patrons. Serbis resembles the bawdiest work of novelist John Irving, or perhaps trash filmmaker John Waters most serious moments.
