By Zee Grega
November 9th, 2007 @ 12:32 PM
film
- The film in which Jane Fonda lets it all hang out and which loaned a name to one of the best-known New Wave bands of the 80s, Barbarella, is the midnight film this weekend at the Egyptian.
- For one week only, the Varsity is screening The Future is Unwritten, the highly-praised documenatary about Joe Strummer, the legendary frontman of The Clash.
- Also for one week only at the Varsity is The Bubble, a film about life and love and the challenges thereof in Tel Aviv’s hippest neighborhood.
- One more one week only film at the Varsity is Terror’s Advocate, a documentary that seeks to discover what drives French lawyer Jacques Vergès, a man who has defended the likes of Pol Pot, Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Carlos the Jackal, Magdalena Kopp, Roger Garaudy and Klaus Barbie.
- The Grand Illusion hosts this weekend week two of their WTF? series, this weekend featuring Get Mean, “the most insane spaghetti western ever made”. Less WTF and more deeply affecting is In Between Days in which a young Korean girl struggles to find love and herself. If you can’t make it to the theater this weekend, swing by sometime Monday through Thursday to catch Crossing the Line, the story of the last American defector in North America. And go ahead and mark your calendars now for next weekend when they’ll be showing the gloriously WTF masterpiece, Surf II, one of the very few films featuring zombies that I recommend people go see.
- From Friday, November 9 through Thursday, November 15, SIFF is showing a series of films by Polish filmmaker Lech Majewski. Check their page about the series [SIFF] for film details and times.
- Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is widely recognized as one of the master’s greatest works and for good reason. The film keeps you wondering “what’s going to happen next?” from beginning to end and features brilliant performances not only by leads James Stewart and Grace Kelly, but by every character that appears on screen. The cinematography is excellent, giving you the feeling of being right there with Stewart’s character trying to solve what appears to be a diabolical mystery while trapped in his apartment, unable to do more than watch, plot, and give direction to his varying degrees of helpful associates. Sure, I’m a little biased because I am a big Hitchcock fan but I think this is one of the most brilliant films ever made. Even people who don’t normally like Hitchcock like Rear Window. And this weekend you can take in this brilliant fliick with beer and great pizza at Seattle’s Central Cinema
- NWFF features the Seattle premiere of Quixotic, a modern take on the famous story of Don Quixote.
