By Zee Grega
August 24th, 2007 @ 12:04 PM
film
- SIFF kicks off a Stanley Kubrick program that runs through September 6 with a Friday night showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film that scared me more as a child than any other film besides Jaws. It still kind of creeps me out now. Saturday they show the rightfully iconic Dr. Strangelove and the history-based Paths of Glory. Sunday brings multiple showings of Barry Lyndon; check their site for showtimes and additional films.
- Outdoor movies: Movies at the Mural this week features Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me on Friday and Casino Royale on Saturday; Supergirl screens at Cal Anderson Park; Seattle Outdoor Cinema in Fremont has Princess Bride; West Seattle’s Sidewalk Cinema has a pre-film set by local band Pagasys [MS] before Edward Scissorshand; and it’s The Sandlot over in Kirkland.
- The Egyptian is going all out with its Midnight Movie this weekend: show up in costume for the screening of the film Young Frankenstein and you could win tickets to the musical playing at the Paramount
- Roky Erickson, a musician from Austin, was an important inspiration of fellow Texan Janis Joplin, amongst others. In 1969 he began a three-year stint in a mental hospital after being busted for marijuana and pleading insanity. When he came out of the hospital, he went into a different of lock-up by keeping himself a recluse, disappointing his many fans and admirers. Keven McAlester’s documentary on Erickson, You’re Gonna MIss Me starts Friday at NWFF and continues all weekend.
- Central Cinema is showing the excellent French action flickLa Femme Nikita
- The Grand Illlusion is again showing 80s summer-camp comedy Oddballs; they’ve also got Ki-Duk Kim’s Time, in which Seh-hee, convinced that her boyfriend no longer loves her, undergoes plastic surgery to become a new woman, one whom he will.
