Weekend Film Agenda
For your viewing pleasure:
- At the Grand Illusion on Friday 6/29 and Saturday 6/30 at 11 is the Seattle premiere of Takeshi Furusawa’s Ghost Train, part of their “All Monsters Attack!” series. Ghost Train tells the story of Nana who is forced to battle a dark spirit in the deep underground tunnel near Mizunahsi Station.
Also opening at the Grand Illusion Friday and running for a week is Thing from Another World a 1951 sci-fi flick paired with its eventual remake, John Carpenter’s 1982 creepfest, The Thing. Daily at 7 & 9/Sat & Sun at 3 & 5.
- June 29 through July 1 is Night of the Iguana at Central Cinema. (7 & 10 pm). This classic film stars Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr in an intense story taken from an original Tennessee Williams play.
- SIFF’s Cinema on the Lawn Series kicks off with one of my most favorite movies ever, Breakfast at Tiffany’s starring a pre-A-Team George Peppard and the lovely, talented and brilliant Audrey Hepburn as two people of dubious morals who manage to find true love. I wish they’d cut the Jerry Lewis scene from the print, though.
- As Josh alerted you last week, [mb], this weekend’s Midnight at the Egyptian flick is the sing-along musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Also at the Egyptian: La Vie En Rose continues.
- Ratatouille opens at the Metro. I mention this as an excuse to ask: is there anyone who plans to see this? Every person I’ve talked to about this film so far has said the previews look boring and they have no intention of going. I have no intention of going. If you do go see this movie, please tell me what it’s like because, really, I think it looks dumb but I have been wrong before
- Over at the Neptune, Friday marks the bow of Sicko, the new documentary by Michael Moore. Even though I often find myself in agreement with what Mr. Moore has to say, the only film of his that I’ve seen that I’ve actually enjoyed was his first one but from everything that I’ve read about it, Sicko looks to be an interesting, provocative flick.
- The magnifique Charlotte Gainsbourg and Vincenzo Amato star in The Golden Door, a story of love and longing for a new home in the new world as a Scilian widower and a mysterious English woman meet on a ship to Ellis Island. At Seven Gables.
- Northwest Film Forum presents a Swashbucklers Marathon. See The Sea Hawk, Fri Jun 29 through Sunday July 1 at 2 pm. a four-time Academy Awards nominee, The Sea Hawk stars the dashiing Errol Flynn as a debonair pirate on the prowl for more than one kind of booty as he fights for Spanish gold and the hand of a lovely lady. At 4:30 pm each day, it’s Burt Lancaster who sails the seven seas as the Crimson Pirate; at 7 pm Stewart Granger plays Alan Quartermain in an exciting version of King Solomon’s Mines that also stars Deborah Kerr and the beaitiful landscape of Africa.
Also at NWFF:Walking to Werner, a documentary about NW filmmaker Linas Phillips walk from Seattle to Los Angeles to honor legendary director Werner Herzog, who once walked 500 miles to meet his own mentor.
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I’m going to see Ratatouille tonight with the fam.
FWIW, Ratatouille, with a score of 95, is the 6th highest scoring film ever on Metacritic (via Kottke).
I hadn’t intended to see Ratatouille, but some friends were going. It was pretty cute and touching and I was quite impressed with the animation.