By Zee Grega
September 21st, 2007 @ 12:10 PM
film
- At the Grand Illusion, they’re showing The Power, a 1984 film about a trio of friends out to destroy an evil Aztec relic and the charming Hula Girls, last seen at SIFF, a film about a small Japanese mining town transforming itself into a Hawaiian-themed resort in the swinging sixties.
- The SIFF summer program wraps up with a final viewing of The Earrings of Madame De… and kicks off their fall programming with My Brother’s Wedding, a restored print of Charles Burnett’s 1983 film about a man in South Central LA trying to find his place in life while working at his parents’ dry cleaning business.
- Northwest Film Forum presents The Devil Came on Horseback, a stirring documentary of the atrocities in Darfur. On a much lighter note, they’re also screening the classic film musical The Sound of Music.
- Central Cinema is showing French filmmaker Luc Besson’s District 13, an action film notable for its extensive use of parkour [wiki].
- The Egyptian is screening well-received space program documentary In the Shadow of the Moon in the evening and at midnight presents horror anthology Trapped Ashes.
- Major studio releases opening this weekend are Into the Wild, directed by Sean Penn, Viggo Mortenson’s turn as a Russian gangster in London in Eastern Promises, the bound to be awful Across the Universe and the set in Iraq thriller In the Valley of Elah.
