Weekend Film Agenda: October 17
By Zee Grega
October 17th, 2008 @ 11:49 AM
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- One of the best-known, best-loved children’s films ever is E.T The Extra-Terrestrial and it’s playing at SIFF Cinema as part of their Films4Families series Saturday morning, October 18th. Go relive your childhood or share the film with kids who were years away from being around when the movie first became a pop culture phenomenon.
- Back in 1958 photographer Bert Stern considered taking photos at that year’s Newport Jazz Festival but decided to try filming the event instead. The result was Jazz on a Summer’s Day, a striking and charming film that highlights the performances of legendary jazz artists like Louis Armstrong, Anita O’Day, Mahalia Jackson, and Thelonious Monk and illustrates the picturesque streets and beaches of the wealthy playground of Newport. SIFF Cinema is showing a 50th anniversary celebratory new 35mm print of a film idea for lovers of jazz and American history. Starts Friday.
- The Grand Illusion brings back its most excellent “All Monsters Attack!” series October 17 – 23 with the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers and 1988′s They Live, two well-directed stories of alien invasion as analogy for paranoia, invasion from within, and government conspiracy. Stick around late nights on October 17 and 18 for 1981′s Galaxy of Terror in which an evil, omniscient alien uses its mental powers to go to war against the crew from a spaceship responding to a mysterious distress call.
- Friday the 17th marks the opening night of the 13th annual Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, a week of shorts, documentaries and features both old and new at venues all over town, see site for complete details.
