By Zee Grega
August 15th, 2008 @ 9:47 AM
film
- Northwest Film Forum continues its Orson Welles series with The Immortal Story. Unavailable on DVD, the film tells the story of Mr. Clay (Orson Welles), a rich old man with plenty of money and time on his hands who decides to alleviate his boredom by playing with the lives of an aging beauty and an inexperienced sailor.
- Also at NWFF: Craig Baldwin is a Bay Area artist who creates movies out of found footage, blending together stock footage in ways wholly different from the intention of the original filmmakers. His latest film Mock Up on Mu combines stock footage with his own live action scenes to present his take on major California industries like the military, entertainment and religion. The film plays Friday and Saturday; Baldwin will be on hand at the theater for a reception Friday after the film.
- SIFF continues its tribute to Jean-Luc Goddard’s great films of the 60s. Friday night see Two or Three Things I Know About Her, a scathing commentary on consumer culture presented in the form of a story about a woman who is both an actor in a film and a housewife who turns tricks in the city to make ends meet. On Saturday it’s Weekend, a dark look at the collapse of civilization that begins with a couple heading out for a weekend in the country while road rage inspires carnage on the streets of the city. Not a film for the squeamish. Sunday brings A Woman Is a Woman, Godard’s first color film, presenting a Zodiac club stripper (played by Anna Karina) whose quest for motherhood involves first her boyfriend then her boyfriend’s best friend.
- Grand Illusion presents Happily Ever After, based on a Japanese comic series about the devoted wife of an unemployed ex-gangster who adores her husband despite his trouble making ways.
- If you’re feeling the need to have a good cry, be sure to head over to Central Cinema for the humorous, dramatic, and emotionally engaging Fried Green Tomatoes.
- Go outdoors for Enchanted in Duvall on Friday, The Iron Giant in Fremont on Saturday, one of my all-time faves, Ghostbusters in West Seattle on Saturday, Hero at Hing Hay Park on Saturday, and The Gang’s All Here Friday night at Cal Anderson Park.
