[HIPSTERS screens Friday June 29th at 9:15 pm and Saturday June 30th at 6:50 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Ever had false-memory syndrome? I think
I just did; probably the reason I'm not being called as a witness at
the Jerry Sandusky child-abuse trial. Besides, as far as Jerry
Sandusky goes, I say anyone named after an Ohio city is automatically
guilty. Movie director Chris Columbus? Guilty as hell, whatever he
did. Give him the maximum.
But I had false memory syndrome of
actually having seen the 2008 Russian musical HIPSTERS a few
years ago. Nothing definite, just a sense that I beheld and enjoyed
the nostalgic tone and the cast and all that; it was a real crowd
pleaser, and I smugly predicted it would go on to become Russia's
DIRTY DANCING, and a worldwide smash. I probably told all of
you to go buy those shares of stock in the studio or anything that
Russian director Valery Todorovsky touched if you all wanted to get
rich, like everyone else was getting in early 2008, remember?
