I’ll be busy at the Fair this weekend, but I still might try to work in a film or two this weekend:

• One choice that tempts me is Kansas City Bomber at Central Cinema. A 1972 movie about roller derby starring Raquel Welch, how bad can it be? Having seen it, I know the answer is “very, very bad”, but it’s the kind of bad that’s fun to watch.
• Midnight at the Egyptian is the charming James & the Giant Peach. I refused to go see this in the theater because I didn’t want to see one of my favorite childhood books ruined by modern film, but when I finally got around to renting it I discovered that it’s actually a lovely little film, very well done.
• Northwest Film Forum is hosting a series of “Mumblecore” films. Since I generally tend to like movies that are “naturalistic” and feature “coming of age/finding one’s self” sort of themes, I should be all over the Mumblecore movement like all the local film writers are. Instead, I’ve yet to see a “Mumblecore” film that hasn’t bored me. Maybe I haven’t seen the right ones? Check out a film or two and form your own opinion.
• SIFF is screening Jean-Paul Melville’s Le Doulos. If you’ve been reading this Weekend Film Agendas all along you know that I”m a sucker for French filmmaking anyway, but this 1962 film about a police informant in the Parisian underground is very much worth seeing even if you’re not.
• Nicole Kidman makes her very first film appearance in BMX Bandits, now playing at the Grand Illusion who are also screening a series of films and film clip compilations from the 1960s in remembrance of the “Summer of Love”.

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