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TORRANCE TRIBUNE May 14, 2015 Page 3 Reality is Another Wonderfully Bizarre Outing From Quentin Dupieux ALL MAY ARMED FORCES MONTH AT PALOS VERDES BOWL! Bowling .............................$1.50 Shoe Rental .......................$1.50 Lunch Specials ...................$2.99 Armed Forces Personnel and Veterans Join Us Everyday Before 5pm. To book your event or for more F FF F FF information, please contact Charlotte at charlotte@pvbowl.com or 310.326.5120 Community Briefs Lunch with Our Leader Event Pictured with Supervisor Knabe are (L to R) Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce Chairwoman Heidi Cunningham, Jac Folkert from UCLA Heath and City of Torrance Councilmember Heidi Ashcraft.  Photo provided by Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce. See Community Briefs, page 4 By Ryan Rojas for CINEMACY By now, fans of the eccentrically French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux should know that his highly original films are made for the cinematically adventurous type – those of whom feel comfortable knowing that for all of the elaborate tangents and philosophicallystaged ponderings, his films might not make a lick of sense. However, in Dupieux’s refined Dadaist style, this happens to be for the very best, as his newest feature film Reality  (Réalité) once again falls in line with his other realitybending comic send-ups (2010’s Rubber, 2013’s Wrong Cops) which makes for another wonderfully bizarre and absurd outing that continues to raise artfully interesting questions while confronting the very medium itself. With his third feature film, Dupieux (AKA electronic music-maker “Mr. Oizo”) has found a story about showbiz that he finally seems ready to tell. Gone is his freshman debut with the killer car-tire gag in Rubber, as well as his sophomore shenanigan-laden midnight movie Wrong Cops; in Reality, the story of a film director who discovers that his passion project film has already been made – and by his alternate-reality self. There are a million more moving pieces that propel the flat-out ridiculousness in this movie. Reality certainly falls in line with what fans of Dupieux’s should expect, but for those new to the director, it should be said that you might have to take a real leap outside of the comfort zone on this one. The movie opens in a wordless sequence where a backwoods rifleman takes out a tranquil deer, brings it home, and proceeds to gut his claim. Much to his young daughter Reality’s (Kyla Kenedy) amazement, a blue VHS tape fall out of the innards, but when pressing the witnessed impossibility, her father dismisses the notion of a video tape being able to get into the belly of such a woods creature – because that would be crazy. This is the sort of confounding anti-logic that both Dupieux and the film thrive on. Meanwhile, in real time, filmmaker Zog (John Glover), sits on the edge of his seat at a remote screening room, where he watches that very scene of Reality and the videotape and the deer,  seeing her stare back into the camera itself. It’s a circus act of selfreferences and meta-dwellings that makes for a silly, fun watch. Aside from this and many other head scratching rabbit holes, Reality mainly centers around a public-access channel camera operator by day, budding artistic filmmaker by later-that-day Jason (Alain Chabat), who sets out to find the ultra-specific and correct “dying human shriek” sound effect that he needs to make his new film about a killer microwave (no doubt a sly wink to Rubber). With appearances by Reality’s cross-dressing principal, Henri (Eric Warheim), and public-access show host in-an-itchy-ratcostume, Denis (Jon Heder), the film circles around to these seemingly non-connected stories, but finds a common (if long-shot) thread to pull the entire story together in its final act. So, where does a film like this, one built on the honest intention of  being purely meaningless and non-logical, stand among his other films, and movies in general? Where Dupieux’s wheelhouse is in all-out manic absurdity, Reality operates in a much more operatically-meta stage, and somewhat more narrative-driven (somewhat). No doubt, as much as Dupieux wishes to claim that he is all detached deadpan shenanigans, he is at his best when he allows himself to dip his toe into the pool of substance – but only just so. New audiences might find themselves unprepared for this offbeat brand of subversively alt-anarchic movie mayhem, but those with patience to try out a new midnight-movie with flair should find themselves oddly entertained. • Film Review Alain Chabat in Reality. Photo courtesy of IFC Midnight. Police Reports See Police Reports, page 10 Auto Theft 5/2/2015 9:46 PM 2900 BLOCK ROLLING HILLS ROAD Stolen vehicle: ‘90 Honda Civic Auto Theft 5/3/2015 10:30:00 AM 236TH ST & WESTERN AVE Stolen vehicle: ‘68 Lincoln Continental Auto Theft 5/2/2015 7:27 AM 2100 BLOCK 182ND ST Stolen vehicle: ‘04 Chevrolet van Battery-Simple 5/2/2015 2:36:57 AM EMERALD ST & ANZA AVE Suspect slaps one victim in the face and throws a second victim against suspect’s car Burglary-Auto 5/2/2015 11:00:00 AM 3300 BLOCK 188TH ST Suspect(s) smashes camper shell window for entry and takes property/ toolbox, tools Burglary-Auto 5/2/2015 8:30:24 AM 18200 BLOCK FAIRVIEW LANE Suspect(s) smashes window for entry and takes property/ tool Burglary-Residential 5/1/2015 11:35:36 PM 500 BLOCK VIA LA SELVA Suspect(s) enters open bathroom window and takes property/ cash, laptop, cell phones Burglary-Commercial 5/4/2015 9:00:00 AM 3500 BLOCK LOMITA BLVD Suspect(s) enters business by unknown means and takes property/ monitor, keys, eyeglasses Burglary-Auto 5/1/2015 9:35:00 PM 2500 BLOCK AIRPORT DR Suspect(s) enters vehicle by unknown means and takes property/ third row seat Burglary-Auto 5/2/2015 8:10:00 AM 3100 BLOCK NEWTON ST Suspect(s) enters vehicle by unknown means and takes property/ sunglasses, laptop, laptop bag, tablet Burglary-Auto 5/2/2015 7:30:00 AM 3700 BLOCK NEWTON ST Suspect(s) enters unlocked vehicle and takes property/sunglasses, MP3, charger Vandalism 5/2/2015 10:30:00 AM 1800 BLOCK GRAMERCY AVE Suspect(s) flattens victim’s vehicle’s tire Auto Theft 5/4/2015 1:00:00 PM 2200 BLOCK CARSON ST Stolen vehicle: Yamaha golf cart Burglary-Residential 5/1/2015 2:20 PM 16700 BLOCK CRENSHAW BLVD Suspect(s) cuts screen, enters open window and takes property/ TV, laptops Burglary-Residential 5/1/2015 10:48:04 AM 3700 BLOCK REDONDO BEACH BLVD Suspects knock on front door and when victim who is home does not answer, one of the suspects removes a window screen before suspects are scared off/ no loss Theft 5/4/2015 5:20:00 AM 2200 BLOCK 178TH ST Suspect(s) takes victim’s vehicle’s catalytic converter Burglary-Auto 5/1/2015 8:56 AM Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe was the featured speaker at the annual Lunch with Our Leader event, presented by the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce on April 29 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Torrance.  First elected in 1996, Supervisor Knabe will be leaving office in less than two years because of term limits and noted that LA County will be seeing “a brand new board of supervisors and other officials and the biggest thing will be change.”   Supervisor Knabe told the crowd of business and city leaders how much he enjoyed his job and said he was especially proud to have established the Safe Surrender program which is credited with saving 126 babies as well as his involvement as a national leader on the issue of child sex trafficking.  56th Annual Torrance Armed Forces Day Celebration Beginning May 15, 2015, through Sunday, May 17, 2015, the City of Torrance will pay tribute to the nation’s Armed Forces with its 56th Annual Armed Forces Day Celebration. Grand Marshal, Rear Admiral Joseph Servidio, Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard District, will lead the Parade on Saturday, May 16, 2015, that will begin at 1:30 pm. For information on events, please visit www. TorranceCA.Gov/ArmedForcesDay.htm. The parade will begin on May 16, 2015, at 1:30 pm and run westbound along Torrance Boulevard starting at Crenshaw Boulevard and ending at City Hall. The community is invited to gather along the parade route and cheer for our sons, daughters, friends, husbands and wives who have been called to duty in defense of our nation’s beliefs and principles and to secure a more peaceful world. Parade Route Street Closures May 16, 2015: 7 am - Arlington Ave. between Marcelina Ave. and Post Ave., El Prado Ave. between Carson St. and Cravens Ave., and Cravens Ave. between Torrance Blvd. and Marcelina Ave. 9 am - All entry ways into Civic Center complex off Torrance Blvd.: Madrona Ave., Maple Ave. and Civic Center Drive. 10 am - Fashion Way between Madrona Ave. and Del Amo Circle East. 11 am - Torrance Blvd. between Western and Crenshaw Blvd. (including all North and South side streets between Van Ness Ave. and Crenshaw Blvd.). Maricopa Street between Crenshaw Blvd. and Maple Ave. 12 noon - Torrance Blvd. between Crenshaw


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