Weekend film agenda
- When I was a kid my parents figured that it was more important that I learn to make my own judgements about my entertainment options than it was for them to make some token and ultimately-doomed attempt to sugarcoat my world. This is why I got to watch Rosemary’s Baby at a revival showing when I was still a grade-schooler and why for quite some time aftewards I kind of wished they were more the sugar-coating type. I haven’t seen the film since the 70’s, so I’m curious to see if it holds up as being as scary as I remember. You can check this out for yourself at SIFF who are screening the 1968 Roman Polanski classic on Friday, October 12 at 7 and 9:35 p.m.
Saturday the 13th they continue their Roman Polanski tribute with multiple screenings of Chinatown, one of the most brilliant (and depressing) films of all time. (If you really want to be depressed, though, check out the unfortunate sequel, The Two Jakes. It’s just…sad.) Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, they’ll be showing The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Tenant, and Repulsion.
- Meanwhile, over at Northwest Film Forum, there’s the live performance of Brand Upon the Brain (a silent film shown with a live sound crew to produce the soundtrack) to close out the Local Sightings series and then the opening of the Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which kicks off with a showing of The Walker down at the Cinerama.
- The Grand Illusion repeat screens the horror flick The Redeemer: Son of Satan at the late show and also presents The District, a 2005 Aron Gauder-directed film about a group of time-traveling teens whose clever money-raising scheme brings their emo and drama to the attention of no less than Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair and George W. Bush.
- The City of Lost Children is one of those movies I keep meaning to watch and then somehow never quite get around to, so it may be worth a midnight trip to the Egyptian to check it this sci-fi vision of a world where adults are no longer able to dream.
- Central Cinema is showing a movie called Let It Ride: the Craig Kelly story. Kelly was an influential and well-known snowboarder who died in an avalanche in 2003.
- The appeal of David Lynch has always been a mystery to me, but, hey, we all have our own tastes. Thsoe of you who appreciate his work might want to head down to the Seattle Art Museum on Friday night at 7 pm for a screening of the documentary Lynch which is followed by a 9 pm screening of Lynch’s Inland Empire.
Unfortunately, the live show of Brand Upon the Brain with the live orchestra, castrato singer, and foley artists was last night at Cinerama. However, the film + recorded soundtrack, narrated by Isabella Rosellini, will be showing at the NWFF cinema at 12th and Pike this weekend.