By Zee Grega
July 20th, 2007 @ 10:05 AM
film
- The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, a “spoof” of 50’s horror B-movies is this weekend’s Midnight at the Egyptian film. The film is so carefully created to resemble one of those films that I find it more homage than satire and figure I’m better off just waiting a few weeks to go see Forbidden Planet, but The Lost Skeleton… has a cult following so there are obviously lots of people who like it.
- Friday evening at the Egyptian is the debut of Lady Chatterley a fully subtitled French version of the classic DH Lawrence tale, for mature audiences only.
- Hairspray opens this weekend opens Friday at theaters all across the Seattle metro area. While I doubt this version will be quite as good as the original, Nikki Blonsky’s gotten high marks for her performance in the lead role, and, hey, some people might enjoy seeing John Travolta in drag.
- The Grand Illuision has one of my childhood favorites, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein in which Elsa Lancaster’s character is made to love the monster played by Boris Karloff. This movie really frightened me when I first saw it, back when I was four or five years old.
- Central Cinema has Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.a creepy, creepy, creepy film.
- June & July, a film about a pair of unusual twins is at Northwest Film Forum.
- Go outside for An Inconvenient Truth at Seattle Outdoor Cinema.
Lost Skeleton was excellent. I still remember seeing the trailer at the Neptune which had a very nervous silence as if people couldn’t figure out if it was a serious movie or a comedy. Then, iirc, the ‘Do you know what this could mean to the field of science? It could mean actual advances .. in the field of science!’ and there was a good amount of relaxed, oh, thank god, type laughter. =)