Weekend Film Agenda: September 19
By Zee Grega
September 19th, 2008 @ 8:53 AM
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- Northwest Film Forum‘s run of Momma’s Man, Azazel Jacob’s film about a man who retreats to an approximation of childhood when being a grown up proves overwhelming continues this weekend, ending on Monday the 22nd. Opening this weekend is The Universe of Keith Haring, a documentary about the life and art of the noted artist whose brightly colored and accessible artwork is recognizable even to people who don’t keep up much on modern art.
- Central Cinema screens Outsourced, a comedy in which a Seattle man is forced to travel to India to train the outsourced replacement taking his job and learns a heartwarming lesson about himself, India and America.
- At the Grand Illusion this weekend: Viva is a bored housewife who gets drawn into the myriad “scenes” of the so-called sexual revolution back in 1972 in this tribute to sexploitation films, and, Ten Nights of Dreams, an omnibus film in which ten directors tell ten different stories of adventure from the noted Meiji-era novelist Soseki Natsume.
- The Human Condition trilogy concludes at SIFF with A Soldier’s Prayer. In the final piece of Masaki Kobayashi’s epic saga of the life and times of Kaji, the socialist turned reluctant soldier during the second world war, the protagonist’s brigade is captured by Russians and Kaji must fight against the idealogical battle of his Soviet “liberators”. [Don't forget to go down to SIFF on Sunday, too, for Red Heroine.].
- Seeing as how The Wizard of Oz is one of my favorite movies of all time and how I devoted a portion of my childhood to reading all of Baum’s Oz books, I’m not quite sure how I managed to miss knowing that someone made an Oz movie that I don’t remember ever hearing about. Released in 1985 and starring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy, Return to Oz is this weekend’s midnight movie at the Egyptian, hands-down the best place to see an Oz-movie, ever.
I love Return to Oz! Man, that might be worth staying up till midnight for!