Screening as part of a/perture’s Summer Music Festival, sponsored by Blanco Tackabery. 

As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors. A loving ode to garage bands, 8-bit video games, and garlic bread, from Edgar Wright, the director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Baby Driver, featuring music by producer Nigel Godrich (‘OK Computer’) and Beck.

“Most films that try to exploit the popularity of gaming mimic the look and mood of state-of-the-art first-person games, rather than the cruder, more cartoony ones evoked here. But Mr. Wright’s deeper ingenuity (and Mr. O’Malley’s) is to collapse the distance between gamer and avatar not by throwing the player into the world of the game, but rather by bringing it to him.” ~ A.O. Scott, The New York Times

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