Weekend Film Agenda
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“What do you get when you fall in love?” Inlaws & Outlaws wants to know. Playing this weekend at Central Cinema., Inlaws & Outlaws is a warm-hearted and thoughtful look at love as experienced by singles and couples, gay and straight telling their own true stories.
- Curious about the short films nominated for Academy Awards this year but worried that you won’t get a chance to see them all before the big night? The Varsity has solved that dilemma for you by offering up two programs that start February 15 and run for the next week, The 2007 Academy Awards Nominated Animated Short Films and The 2007 Academy Award Nominated Live Action Short Films. Watch both programs and then try to predict which films will win.
- When I was just a kid, I saw Rosemary’s Baby for the first time not long after its initial release and thought it was just about the scariest film I’d ever seen. Several years and many, many scary movies later, I watched it again thinking some of the chill would’ve lessened, but, no, it was still just as spooky as ever. Check out this creepy classic this Friday and Saturday at the Egyptian at midnight.
- The only Best Foreign Film Academy Award winner never to be released on video is the 1970 classic film from Italy called Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. Directed by Elio Petri, fhe film tells the story of a corrupt police chief who plants false evidence into the investigation of his murdered mistress to throw detectives off the track of the real killer. At the Grand Illusion Friday through Thursday.
Late night at the Grand Illusion this weekend is Pets, another unavailable on video film from the 70s, although if this film’s a “classic”, it’s a different breed of classic altogether. Two amoral women seek ever more dangerout thrills on a cross country spree of sex and violence. - SIFF continues their Noir City series with The Prowler and Gun Crazy on Friday, High Sierra and The Hard Way on Saturday, and Moonrise with The NIght Has a Thousand Eyes on Sunday., The series continues through Thursday.
- There’s more from the Finnish New Wave at NWFF: On Friday, Summer Rebellion takes a look at 1969 Finland through the eyes of young, rebellious teens touring the country. Saturday’s The Diary of a Worker is the final film of Risto Jarva, about a factory working trying to balance his home and work life in a changing new world. Poor Maria on Sunday is the sad story of a businesswoman falling apart from the stress of a failed romance, a lost job and family difficulties.
Also at NWFF is the Seattle Human Rights Film Festival , presented by the Amnesty International Puget Sound. Films include The Prisoner, or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, Yahoo in China, and Bombhunters, see website for complete film listings.
