SFIFFBLOG - Week Two - The Forks, The Lap, The Fur

posted by E. Steven Fried (May 11, 2008, 10:19 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
My Winnipeg SFIFF51 closed May 8th with a screening of Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson. A week ago, Saturday, I went to the Pacific Film Archive to see Guy Maddin present his latest, My Winnipeg….

Two Blurbs: Encounters at the End of the World and Derek

posted by Gillian G. Gaar (May 08, 2008, 12:20 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
After heading “into the wild,” so to speak, with Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog heads south to another remote corner of the globe, Antarctica, in Encounters…. Thankfully, he also narrates, as I love his voice (I was particularly hung up on…

SFIFFBLOG - Week One

posted by E. Steven Fried (May 04, 2008, 06:29 PM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon The 51st San Francisco International Film Festival began a week and a half ago with an opening night screening of The Last Mistress. Due to time limitations [work] and fiscal constraints [relocation debts]…

The Life Before Her Eyes

posted by Amie Simon (April 11, 2008, 11:03 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Since director Vadim Perelman directed one of my favorite films: The House of Sand and Fog, and (in my opinion), translated the book beautifully to film – I had hopes that The Life Before Her Eyes would be just…

Sincerity and Violence, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation

posted by Kathy Fennessy (March 17, 2008, 12:00 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
LA CHINOISE / La Chinoise, ou Plutôt à la Chinoise: Un Film en Train de se Faire (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1967, 90 mins.) Mao’s ideas can help me…in any case, you need sincerity and violence. — Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) *****…

I Started a Joke

posted by Kathy Fennessy (March 09, 2008, 10:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
FUNNY GAMES [U.S.] (Michael Haneke, US, 2007, 107 mins.) I started a joke, which started the whole world crying, but I didn’t see that the joke was on me. — The Bee Gees, “I Started a Joke” (1967) What a…

Happy Eightieth!

posted by David Jeffers (March 01, 2008, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>

Orpheum By The Numbers

posted by David Jeffers (February 10, 2008, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I love any discussion involving silent film, rattling off its endless minutia, and posing countless, obscure questions. While preparing for The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) last month, I ended an e-mail to Northwest Film Forum Communications Director Ryan Davis…

Land of the Midnight Sauna: Part Two

posted by Kathy Fennessy (February 09, 2008, 09:00 AM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
EIGHT DEADLY SHOTS
/ Kahdeksan surmanluotia (Mikko Niskanen, 1972, Finland, 35mm, 145 mins.) Click here for part one Eight Deadly Shots is perhaps the most nuanced picture of the working of the economic system in the history of our cinema: a…

Land of the Midnight Sauna: Part One

posted by Kathy Fennessy (February 03, 2008, 12:00 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
SKIN, SKIN / Käpy selän alla (Mikko Niskanen, 1966, Finland, 35mm, 89 mins.) The Finnish word sisu means resilience and survival under difficult circumstances. In shorthand, it’s often translated as “guts,” and is regarded as a characteristic Finnish trait. —…

Noir and a Whole Lot More.

posted by Anne M. Hockens (February 01, 2008, 03:05 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Cops confront Laird Cregar in Hangover Square Noir City 6 http://www.noircity.com/noircity.html The Castro Theatre San Francisco January 25th - February 3rd, 2008 Hangover Square (Fox Home Entertainment) Dangerous Crossing (Fox Home Entertainment) Reign of Terror (Alpha Video) Border Incident…

“California is wonderful; if you’re a grapefruit.”

posted by Anne M. Hockens (January 29, 2008, 03:35 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Joan Leslie in Repeat Performance Noir City 6 The Castro Theatre San Francisco January 25th - February 3rd, 2008 Opening Weekend Review Despite torrential rain, Noir City 6’s opening weekend boasted record attendance. Actually watching film noirs in a…

Celestial Patience and Running with Scissors: Weimar animator Lotte Reiniger and …

posted by David Jeffers (January 25, 2008, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
… The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). Friday, January 25, 8:00 p.m., Northwest Film Forum Her friend Jean Renoir claimed that premiere German animator Lotte Reiniger was “… born with magic hands.” From childhood, Reiniger possessed an unusual talent for…

Getting in on the ground floor ...

posted by David Jeffers (January 21, 2008, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
… a brief discussion with Dennis James and the film that started it all. My lifetime journey of discovery through the history and culture of silent era film has presented me with no more valued or personally edifying contact than…

January Rush

posted by David Jeffers (January 19, 2008, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The month of January ends with an indulgent flurry of screenings for Pacific Northwest silent film enthusiasts, featuring three theaters and four films over three days, with logistics to challenge all but the most avid of silent era moviegoers. The…

Soul Desert: Part III

posted by Kathy Fennessy (January 13, 2008, 09:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK, 1971, 35mm, 90 mins.) Part III (click here for Parts I and II) I don’t want to work away Doing just what they all say Work hard, boy, and you’ll find One day you’ll have…

Soul Desert: Parts I and II

posted by Kathy Fennessy (January 10, 2008, 09:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK, 1971, 35mm, 90 mins.) Former child actor John Moulder-Brown Prologue A soundtrack that eclipses the film with which it’s associated is not an anomaly. Pink Floyd’s More (1969) is a case in point. Though I’ve…

Love & Marriage

posted by Kathy Fennessy (January 02, 2008, 09:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
MARRIED LIFE (Ira Sachs, US, 2007, 90 mins.) PREFAB PEOPLE (Béla Tarr, Hungary, 1982, 102 mins.) Love and marriage, love and marriage It’s an institute you can’t disparage. — Frank Sinatra (Cahn/Van Heusen) Nothing to “disparage” here… By coincidence, I…

Henry King & Harry Langdon

posted by David Jeffers (December 27, 2007, 06:52 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Announced this morning at 0500 PST: Films Selected for the 2007 National Film Registry • Back to the Future (1985) • Bullitt (1968) • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) • Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) • Dances With Wolves…

I'm Not there (4) Jesus and Rimbaud

posted by Franz Bieberkopf (December 20, 2007, 08:05 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
I could do without the Jesus and Rimbaud bits. First, the Rimbaud, because the content would have been just as effective if placed in the press conference scenes with Cate Blanchett, without the confusion of another actor and another character….

Remember The Night

posted by Anne M. Hockens (December 15, 2007, 02:09 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Remember the Night 1940 Director: Mitchell Leisen Screenplay: Preston Sturges Screening: Sunday December 16, 2007 7:00 pm at the Lynwood Theatre on Bainbridge Island Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck debate morality and their future. Mitchell Leisen’s Remember the Night is…

Starting Out in the Evening

posted by Amie Simon (December 14, 2007, 09:10 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Once when I was dating another writer, he expressed concerns for his future happiness by sharing this with me: “Writers are essentially very selfish. They HAVE to be to write well, and I know that means that I probably…

The Post-Punk Poet of Portugal: Part Two

posted by Kathy Fennessy (December 10, 2007, 04:52 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
COLOSSAL YOUTH / Juventude Em Marcha (Pedro Costa, Portugal/France/Switzerland, 2006, 155 mins.) Click here for part one “[H]is slow-moving, impressively photographed and deliberately rep- etitious zero-tech docudramas about the degraded lives of the poor will infuriate and alienate far more…

She's a Femme Fatale

posted by Anne M. Hockens (December 07, 2007, 03:56 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Greta Garbo, Flesh and The Devil Flesh and the Devil 1926 Director: Clarence Brown Director of Cinematography William Daniels Available on DVD from Warner Brothers: TCM Archives - The Garbo Silents Collection Screened at the San Francisco Silent Film…

The Post-Punk Poet of Portugal

posted by Kathy Fennessy (December 04, 2007, 04:48 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Pedro Costa ***** “Music is a bitch. I worship her.” — Bassoé, Casa de Lava His movies feature music by The The (“This Is the Day”) and Wire (“Lowdown”). His latest, Colossal Youth (2006), even takes its title from…

I'm Not There (3) Woody

posted by Franz Bieberkopf (December 01, 2007, 04:39 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The boxcar scenes are as close as one can get to Hal Ashby’s “Bound for Glory” without Haskell Wexler controlling the light. The compositions are there, but the look is wrong. So, for that matter, are the characters….

Im Not There ( 1 of 8)

posted by Franz Bieberkopf (December 01, 2007, 01:28 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
What “Nashville” was to the Bi-Centennial, “I’m Not There” is to the Millennium. Watching it is a crash course in what it has meant to be an American over the last 50 years. The movies, music, the politics, the myths,…

Tinsel on The Painted Ladies

posted by David Jeffers (November 28, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black … Intolerance (1916) Saturday December 1, 2:00 p.m. The Castro, San Francisco Originally conceived as a three-reel drama, D.W Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) became his attempt to surpass the popular success achieved by The Birth…

Leave It to Baby Doll

posted by Kathy Fennessy (November 27, 2007, 10:15 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
BABY DOLL (Elia Kazan, US, R, 1956, 114 mins.) Today is the fifth day of November. Tomorrow is the sixth day of November, and the day after that is November seventh. And you know what day that is, don’t you?…

Winter Preview: Part 2

posted by David Jeffers (November 21, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Flying south for the winter … Vitaphone Vaudeville (1926-1930) December 1, 11:00 a.m. The Castro, San Francisco Intolerance (1916) December 1, 2:00 p.m. The Castro, San Francisco Flesh and The Devil (1926) December 1, 8:00 p.m. The Castro, San Francisco…

Watch the Landlord Get His

posted by Kathy Fennessy (November 20, 2007, 12:00 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
THE LANDLORD (Hal Ashby, US, 1970, 35mm, 114 mins.) There’s no worse career move in Hollywood than dying. Hal Ashby is now largely forgotten because he had the misfortune to die at the end of the ’80s, but he had…

A Light in The Darkness

posted by David Jeffers (November 14, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Regional selections of Silent Era film this Fall and Winter begin with the long overdue return of Fritz Lang’s greatest work from film’s greatest year, and conclude with a weekend of surprises in Port Townsend. Metropolis (1927) November 16 -…

San Francisco Silent Film Festival Special Winter Event

posted by Anne M. Hockens (November 06, 2007, 04:21 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is presenting a special one day event on December 1, 2007 at the historic Castro Theatre (www.castrotheatre.com) in San Francisco. The day includes a program of Vitaphone shorts, as well as the screening of…

Three Angry Men

posted by Kathy Fennessy (October 28, 2007, 09:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD (Sidney Lumet, US, 2007, 116 mins.) Don’t call it a comeback / I’ve been here for years. — LL Cool J, “Mama Said Knock You Out” (1990) ***** Before he was a movie director,…

An Introduction to Anthropology

posted by Kathy Fennessy (October 22, 2007, 09:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
THE PORNOGRAPHERS / Jinruigaku Nyumon: Erogotshi Yori (Shohei Imamura, 1966, Japan, 35mm, 128 mins.) I am interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the lower part of the social structure. I want to make…

Black and White and Blue All Over

posted by Kathy Fennessy (October 18, 2007, 09:00 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
LET’S GET LOST (Bruce Weber, US, 1988, 35mm, 119 mins.) Almost blue / It’s almost touching it will almost do There’s a part of me that’s always true…always. — Chet Baker sings Elvis Costello ***** It’s too bad, really, that…

Eternal Summer - Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

posted by E. Steven Fried (October 17, 2007, 08:39 AM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Bryant Chang, Joseph Chang and Kate Yeung Returning for a repeat screening, Eternal Summer initially showed at SIFF 2007 and was described in the program: “Friends since childhood, the studious Jonathan and athletic Shane must confront their true feelings…

A Jewel on 2nd Avenue

posted by David Jeffers (October 15, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
She may not be as fancy, she may not be as talked about, she may be smaller than the others, she may even lack their fine acoustics, but the grand old gal of Seattle theaters is without a doubt…

Bears - Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

posted by E. Steven Fried (October 13, 2007, 07:04 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A big bowl of woof I have a friend who loves Bears. I don’t mean teddy bears. He might like those as well. What I mean is big, burly guys with lots of hair. Seth Rogen fits the bill,…

Vivere - Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

posted by E. Steven Fried (October 10, 2007, 10:30 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Watching this film, two things struck me. One was the nice reds and greens Judith Kaufmann achieved in the cinematography and the other was that a good portion of the story involves a young woman’s romantic interest in an…

The Best of Lezsploitation - Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

posted by E. Steven Fried (October 10, 2007, 08:30 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
One of the greatest movies ever made and that’s a fact! One of my absolute favorite genres is the European Sci-Fi Lesbian Vampire movie, a species of film that flourished in the 60’s and 70’s. Denoted by the use…

Further Off the Straight & Narrow

posted by Kathy Fennessy (October 08, 2007, 09:45 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
THE WITNESSES / LES TEMOINS (André Téchiné, France, 2007, 114 mins.) International Centerpiece of the 11th annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The Witnesses is a true ensemble effort. Freckle-faced, poufy-lipped Emmanuelle Béart, who last worked with André Téchiné…

The Mutuals - 60, 61, 62

posted by David Jeffers (September 28, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The Cure (1917) An affluent inebriate (Charles Chaplin) visits a health spring for “the water cure” and inadvertently pollutes the well with liquor, intoxicating all the guests. The Cure was Chaplin’s tenth of twelve “Mutual Specials” and dealt with a…

Relics - The Melbourne

posted by David Jeffers (September 27, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Postcards from Seattle, ca 1912 “The Greatest Living Human Being” The final three films produced under contract to the Mutual Film Corporation took Charles Chaplin as long to complete as the previous nine. Of twelve films released in 1916…

The Children of Don Corleone (and Red Bull)

posted by Kathy Fennessy (September 24, 2007, 09:00 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg, US, 2007, BETA-SP, 84 mins.) It’s so easy to record a CD, or make a film, and the result is that there’s a lot of crap out there. — Joe Swanberg, GreenCine (8/29/06) *****…

An English Music Hall on Spring Street

posted by David Jeffers (September 22, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A Night at The Empress As a starving, neglected child, the English Music Hall became Charles Chaplin’s home and salvation. The son of actors had to sing for his supper, much like other film stars in their youth. His older…

The Mutuals - 57, 58, 59

posted by David Jeffers (September 21, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Monday September 24, 7:00 pm, The Paramount Theater Behind The Screen (1916) A wickedly funny parody of his Keystone days, Behind the Screen was Charles Chaplin’s seventh production under contract to The Mutual Film Corporation. Building on themes used in…

Relics - The Strand

posted by David Jeffers (September 20, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Gone, but not (quite) forgotten, ca. 1936 Beginning with The Floorwalker in May of 1916, Charles Chaplin created a series of twelve two-reel shorts for The Mutual Film Corporation, and enthralled the world with the finest comedy ever produced…

Who's Zoomin Who?

posted by David Jeffers (September 18, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
A Dolly on a Dolly… or … Tracking the Wild Starlet. I am outing our post-show discussion from The Count. This is obviously not a tracking “in” setup, and its also an outdoor rig. It is however, the technology to…

Modern Times: Charles Chaplin in the 21st Century

posted by David Jeffers (September 15, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Growing old at 18 fps … Gloria Swanson (1922) Were he alive today, Charles Chaplin would be 118 years old. The series of two-reel shorts he produced for the Mutual Film Corporation have existed for nearly a century. They entertained…

Ain't We Lucky We Got 'Em

posted by Kathy Fennessy (September 15, 2007, 09:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
MY BROTHER’S WEDDING (Charles Burnett, US, 1983, 81 mins.) He has a very romantic view of the have-nots. — Mrs. Mundy on her son ***** Only a few minutes into My Brother’s Wedding, and my childhood began to flash before…

The Mutuals - 54, 55, 56

posted by David Jeffers (September 14, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Monday September 17, 7:00 pm, The Paramount Theater One A.M. (1916) Throughout his youth performing in British Music Halls, Charles Chaplin specialized in playing the inebriate stumblebum with hilarious results. The fourth of twelve two-reel shorts produced under contract to…

Relics - Colonial / Grand

posted by David Jeffers (September 13, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The Colonial Theater circa 1936 One A.M. at The Colonial Mutual Film Corporation previewed Charles Chaplin’s production of One A.M. at Seattle’s Colonial Theater on Sunday, August 6, 1916. The film went into general release the following day. The…

That Obscure Object of Desire

posted by Kathy Fennessy (September 11, 2007, 12:00 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
MALA NOCHE (Gus Van Sant, US, 1985, 35mm, 78 mins.) This has been a fantastic year to catch up with old favorites. Though American iconoclasts Allison Anders, Jim Jarmusch, and Gus Vant Sant came to fame in the 1980s, their…

The Mutuals - 51, 52, 53

posted by David Jeffers (September 08, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Monday September 10, 7:00 pm, The Paramount Theater The Floorwalker (1916) The first of twelve films Charles Chaplin produced for the Mutual Film Corporation, The Floorwalker(1916) might have been titled The Escalator, which is the focal point and primary source…

Relics - Alhambra / Coliseum

posted by David Jeffers (September 08, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The Coliseum Theater (twenty years later) circa 1936 Chaplin Plays The Alhambra The Floorwalker (1916), starring Clarlie Chaplin came to Seattle’s Alhambra Theater on Thursday, May 18, 1916 for a three day run. Post Intelligencer advertisements touted, “… his…

Edna, Albert & The Ogre

posted by David Jeffers (September 06, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Edna “She was blond, beautiful and serious and Chaplin was instantly captivated by her.” - David Robinson Edna Purviance was a constant presence in the work of Charles Chaplin, from his second film with Essanay, A Night Out (1915), through…

Chaplin Returns

posted by David Jeffers (September 01, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Charles Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks on Wall St., April 8, 1918 The Paramount and Seattle Theater Group will screen Charles Chaplin’s entire Mutual Film Corporation catalog in chronological order over four successive Monday nights, beginning on September 10. The…

Godard 101: A Girl and a Gun

posted by Kathy Fennessy (August 31, 2007, 09:00 AM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Italy, 1965, 35mm, 110 mins.) Marianne: Pierrot le Fou!!! Ferdinard: My name is Ferdinard. I have told you often enough. Christ almighty! ***** Like Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046, some movies seem more like a collection of…

Now I'm Home (to Stay)

posted by Kathy Fennessy (August 24, 2007, 09:00 AM, Comments: 6) MORE >>>
YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME (Keven McAlester, US, 2005, 35mm, 92 mins.) I am not a member of the human race (not an earthling) and am in fact an alien from a planet other than earth. — Roky’s Declaration, June, 13,…

An Account of His Disappearance

posted by Kathy Fennessy (August 09, 2007, 09:15 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
THIS IS GARY McFARLAND (Kristian St. Clair, US, 2006, 71 mins.) He was an overdose of style. — Guitarist Joe Beck ***** First things first. I know filmmaker Kristian St. Clair. I don’t know him from his directing, but because…

Talking Timbuktu

posted by Kathy Fennessy (August 07, 2007, 08:39 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
BAMAKO / THE COURT (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali, 2006, not rated, 115 mins.) I was very aware that from my small position, and because I make films, I have to try to be the voice of millions of people. Because of…

Message From Finlandia

posted by Kathy Fennessy (August 03, 2007, 12:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
LIGHTS IN THE DUSK / LAITAKAUPUNGIN VALOT (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 2006, 80 mins.) It comes off with a nice flavor, and then gives you a slight bite as it starts down the throat. — Vodka Rocks on Finlandia ****** As…

Cosmic Translation

posted by David Jeffers (July 28, 2007, 02:22 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The process of researching Cosmic Voyage (1936) without the benefit of English intertitles was challenging to say the least. Language translation is now possible using on-line programs, which offer varying degrees of accuracy. Attempting to work with a non-Latin based…

Hijack at the Cosmodrome

posted by David Jeffers (July 25, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Cosmic Voyage: Fantasy novella (1936) Saturday, July 28, 7 & 8:30 p. m., Northwest Film Forum Taken from the printed page and splashed across the big screen, science fiction flourished in early cinema. Beginning with Georges Méliès’ Le Voyage dans…

The 12th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival - In Review

posted by David Jeffers (July 18, 2007, 11:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
How will they ever top this?…

The SFSFF 2007 - Day 3

posted by David Jeffers (July 16, 2007, 11:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The third and final day of this year’s series began with More Amazing Tales from the Archives. Dr. Patrick Loughney, curator of motion pictures at George Eastman House, discussed the ongoing preservation of various early formats at GEH, including their…

It Must Be Wonderful To Be A King!

posted by Anne M. Hockens (July 15, 2007, 08:25 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Day One, San Francisco Sielnt Film Festival The Student Prince In Old Heidelberg Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer The opening night of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival featured a screening of The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg (1927) (available…

The SFSFF 2007 - Day 2

posted by David Jeffers (July 14, 2007, 11:45 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
How often does the day come along when you have a chance to see rare Hal Roach silent shorts, followed by sensational Hollywood and Italian action features, anything written by June Mathis, and Wild Bill Wellman directing Louise Brooks and…

The SFSFF 2007 - Day 1

posted by David Jeffers (July 13, 2007, 02:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A Trip to the Dentist … 1924 Well here we are again, poised on the brink of that great indulgence, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The twelfth annual celebration of movies our grannies loved, begins with MGM’s sensational The…

The Dark Swan

posted by David Jeffers (July 10, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A Doll’s House (1907) Lost in translation … The wonders of technology slowly crept up on the old world of oil painting and candlelight, throwing open doors of opportunity. Within reach of the working classes, portraiture and its visible…

The Help Fights Back!

posted by David Jeffers (July 08, 2007, 08:03 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Miss Lulu Bett (1921) Sunday, July 15, 3:35 p. m., The Castro, San Francisco Lois Wilson stars as the put-upon servant of her older sister’s household in this melodramatic gem, directed by William C. deMille. Dominated by bombastic man-of-the-house Dwight…

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

posted by David Jeffers (July 07, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Their finest year … Nineteen Twenty-Seven was the year of miracles. Motion Pictures reached a parity of technology and creative expression, resulting in the greatest collective output of this or any other year, unsurpassed in both quantity and astonishing quality….

The Boy Wonder

posted by David Jeffers (July 06, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Guns and Oranges San Dimas - 1900 Early Hollywood was beyond a doubt, the Wild West. Barnstorming film crews of socially questionable, youthfully indiscrete, armed and determined “movie people,” scrambled from one location to the next with the rock throwing,…

The Black Pirate (1926)

posted by David Jeffers (July 01, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
It beats selling soap! The Three Musketeers (1921) Douglas Fairbanks stood alone at the top in 1920. He was the original action hero, and a bona fide movie star. His smiling face appeared on newspapers from coast to coast. The…

Relics: The Clemmer - Columbia - Boston Building (1912 - 1968)

posted by David Jeffers (June 30, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A boyhood dream … Saturday, November 13, 1926 In the small upstairs bedroom of a North Seattle home, the eyes of a ten-year-old boy pop open, wide awake. He is too excited to sleep. Dressed and ready in a flash,…

A Silent Feast

posted by David Jeffers (June 26, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Summer/Fall 2007 As the Seattle International Film Festival concludes its annual cinematic extravaganza of excess, a summer of well known favorites await Northwest enthusiasts of silent era film, and what has become the nation’s foremost celebration of the silents, the…

Abattoir Blues

posted by Kathy Fennessy (June 22, 2007, 03:25 AM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977, US, 35mm, 80 mins.) That’s the way nature is; an animal has his teeth and a man has his fists. — Killer of Sheep (1977) ***** While neo-realism is associated with Italy and the…

Is it over?

posted by E. Steven Fried (June 21, 2007, 02:50 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
So, did everybody have a good SIFF? Have you finally recovered from that closing night party hangover? Are you getting a reasonable amount of sunshine now? I did tolerably well. I didn’t see as many films as usual, only…

eine Postkarte von Berlin

posted by David Jeffers (June 13, 2007, 11:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927) Friday June 15, 7:00 & 9:30 p.m., The Triple Door Beginning with the pre-dawn ferocity of a locomotive roaring into the city, Walther Ruttmann’s cinematic tone poem Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927) hurls…

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

posted by E. Steven Fried (June 13, 2007, 11:05 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
The British comic Lenny Henry once compared Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck by saying that whereas Tom Jones, on his best nights, was like catching lightning in a bucket, Engelbert Humperdinck was the bucket. Well then, Scott Walker, is…

Great World of Sound

posted by E. Steven Fried (June 12, 2007, 11:37 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
As previously mentioned, my sister visited this weekend. Among the films we saw were The Boss of It All and Great World of Sound. Both movies involve conniving businessmen and their shady schemes. Of the two, I preferred The…

Fatal Attraction

posted by David Jeffers (June 10, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) Wednesday June 13, 7:30p.m., SIFF Cinema (The Nesholm Family Lecture Hall), Seattle International Film Festival Sunday July 15, 6:00p.m., The Castro, The San Francisco Silent Film Festival A deranged man escapes from prison to seek…

Recommendations: Dancing, singing high school students + wriggling foreheads

posted by Amie Simon (June 06, 2007, 09:29 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
There’s a few films coming up that I greatly enjoyed, so I wanted to clue you in so you don’t miss them. Daespo Naughty Girls is a comedy-musical-fantasy that pokes fun at Korean culture, and teenagers in particular. Based on…

King of the triple take ...

posted by David Jeffers (June 04, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
… Wallace Beery Tugboat Annie (1933) Wednesday June 6, 7:00pm, SIFF Cinema (The Neshlom Family Lecture Hall), Seattle International Film Festival Beggars of Life (1928) Saturday July 14, 8:45pm, The Castro, The San Francisco Silent Film Festival As the archetypal…

2 Days in Paris

posted by Amie Simon (June 03, 2007, 11:19 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Before SIFF officially opened, I had already heard a few things about Julie Delpy’s feature directorial debut. First, I heard that it was almost exactly like Before Sunset. Second, I heard that it was okay, but the ending of…

Midnight Adrenaline - "Them" and "Aachi & Ssipak"

posted by Jake Ayers (June 02, 2007, 12:14 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
In years past, midnight moviegoing has been somewhat of a counter-cultural phenomenon, inviting attendees to stay up past their bedtime (a residual childhood rebellion?) to indulge in a cinematically subversive amalgam of high camp, ultra-violence, graphic sexuality, rude comedy, extreme…

Daywatch

posted by Greg Brotherton (June 01, 2007, 06:25 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Neptune Theater, 6/8 9:30 PM Lincoln Square, 6/10 9:15 PM Watching the sequel to a film you haven’t seen is always tricky, but with today’s precedents about vampires, I thought I’d catch right up to Timur Bekmambetov’s Daywatch. Well, I’m…

"I wish't yeh meant it, Bill."

posted by David Jeffers (May 31, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The noblest of intentions often fail, when they fly in the face of power and greed. The portrayal of a nationalist identity in the early years of Australian cinema suffered a bitter disintegration during the silent era, as block…

Worst Episode Ever

posted by E. Steven Fried (May 31, 2007, 12:40 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The only good thing in Madrigal. I was hoping Waiter would be the worst film I saw at SIFF, but I hoped in vain. Madrigal is worse. How much worse? I wrenched my back a little over a week…

SIFF Archival: Gunga Din (1939)

posted by Kyle Smith (May 30, 2007, 08:56 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Director: George Stevens Country: USA Three British he-man-woman-hatin’ sergeants (Cary Grant, Victor McLaglin and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) take on a thugee sect in 19th-century India supported by not only the titular untouchable (Sam Jaffe), but also a strong colonialist spirit,…

Paris, Je t’aime

posted by Amie Simon (May 28, 2007, 10:17 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I was looking forward to this film more than any other this year at SIFF, and it did not dissapoint. Paris, Je t’aime is beautifully composed of 18 different shorts about love in the city of love (18 different…

Rocket Science

posted by Greg Brotherton (May 25, 2007, 02:21 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Saturday, 6/2 Neptune Theatre, 6:30 PM Monday, 6/4 Lincoln Square, 7:00 PM Rocket Science brings the same empathetic attitude toward kids that I enjoyed so much in Spellbound. It tells the story of young Hal Hefner a stuttering kid who…

SIFF Opening Night Gala - Son of Rambow

posted by Amie Simon (May 25, 2007, 11:09 AM, Comments: 7) MORE >>>
Last night, I had the extreme pleasure of attending the 2007 SIFF Opening Gala at the new Marion Oliver McCaw Hall. Deborah Person, Carl Spence, and Gary Tucker all openly shared their love for the festival, and a general…

B.M.O.C.

posted by David Jeffers (May 24, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The Freshman (1925) Friday May 25, 7:00pm, The Paramount Theater Raccoon coats, rumbleseats, the “football hero” and all the trappings of college life found their way into movie theaters everywhere in the nineteen-twenties. Films like The Plastic Age (1925) and…

Yva Las Vegass, Red Road

posted by Gillian G. Gaar (May 23, 2007, 10:16 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The Life and times of Yva Las Vegass May 28, 9:15 pm, Egyptian At times, I’ve wondered if I was the only Sweet 75 fan in the world, because it seemed like everyone I talked to about Krist Novoselic’s first…

Girls Rock!, Crazy Love, Doubletime

posted by Gillian G. Gaar (May 22, 2007, 11:08 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Girls Rock! May 25, 7 pm, Harvard Exit May 27, 1 pm, SIFF Cinema This doc should be a great crowd pleaser. It’s set at the rock ‘n’ roll camp for girls held in Portland, Oregon, where girls get one…

An insurance salesman, a soapmaker and a waiter walk into a bar...

posted by E. Steven Fried (May 21, 2007, 04:23 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
meshugge like a fox The great philosopher Boris Grushenko once said, “There are worse things in life than death. If you’ve ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I’m talking about.” Yes, but what if…

American Shopper, Severence, Aachi and Ssipak

posted by Greg Brotherton (May 20, 2007, 09:46 AM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
The sun is coming out. Flowers are popping up. Gortex jackets are being shed right and left. The signs are clear. It’s time to go inside for a month and watch movies. It’s taken me a few weeks to get…

Harold Shines

posted by David Jeffers (May 19, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The nonsense of hierarchy … The contemporary label defining Harold Lloyd as “The Third Genius” is both demeaning and incorrect. He was certainly a tremendous talent and popular film star throughout the silent era. If ticket sales are used as…

Racing to The Finish

posted by David Jeffers (May 17, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Speedy (1928) Monday May 21, 7:00pm, The Paramount Theater In his eleventh and final silent feature Speedy (1928), Harold Lloyd made the most of his often used multi-sketch format, producing a funny and energetic farewell to the silent era. Harold…

Black White + Gray

posted by E. Steven Fried (May 17, 2007, 11:18 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Although no longer impressed with his work, I was once a bit of a Mapplethorpe fan. In 1988 I asked an art-collector friend how one got to have a career like his. My friend replied, “You date Sam Wagstaff.”…

Thimbles for Peter Pan

posted by David Jeffers (May 15, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
Peter Pan (1924) May 18-20, Northwest Film Forum Seventeen-year-old Betty Bronson was hand picked by author J. M. Barrie to play the boy who wouldn’t grow up, in Paramount’s star studded production of Peter Pan (1924). Delightful art direction (frolicking…

The Greatest Film Noirs?

posted by Anne M. Hockens (May 12, 2007, 06:23 PM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
Dan Duryea in an unusually tender embrace with Black Angel co-star June Vincent. A friend recently asked me to compile my list of ten to twenty of the greatest film noirs for a project he is working on. I…

An Unscheduled Stop ...

posted by David Jeffers (May 11, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Sound, Comedy and the Silent Argument What was the impact of synchronized sound on motion pictures? In their infancy, any offering would attract a paying audience. As the novelty wore off, presentations increased in length and complexity. The artificial flamboyance…

Silent SIFF 2007

posted by David Jeffers (May 10, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The cat is finally out of the bag! Seattle International Film Festival has announced it’s hefty 2007 program, and SIFF’s 33rd opus includes interesting archival selections of Film Noir, Hollywood adventure, with three films from the silent era. The Sentimental…

His Best Girl

posted by David Jeffers (May 04, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Monday May 7, 7:00pm, The Paramount Theater Why Worry (1923) “Say! Why didn’t you tell me I love you?” Well-known hypochondriac and boy millionaire Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) travels to a sleepy banana republic to cure his ills. Upon…

Waitress

posted by Amie Simon (May 02, 2007, 10:51 PM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
This movie truly made me both happy and sad at the same time. Happy, because it’s honestly one of the best movies I’ve seen in well…forever. And sad, because director Adrienne Shelly will never be able to make another…

Grandma's Boy & Dr. Jack

posted by David Jeffers (April 28, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Monday April 30, 7:00pm, The Paramount Theater Grandma’s Boy (1922) Of all his films, Harold Lloyd considered Grandma’s Boy (1922) his personal favorite. The second of eleven silent features starring Lloyd, it was the story of a kind-hearted boy, convinced…

"...the boy in the horn-rimmed glasses."

posted by David Jeffers (April 27, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, and a new comic font The Architect In 1908, at the tender age of sixteen, Hal Roach left his home in New York State to travel the world and make it his oyster. Roach sold ice…

White Man's Burden

posted by Kathy Fennessy (April 19, 2007, 02:36 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
After the Wedding / Efter brylluppet (Susan Bier, Denmark, rated R, 119 mins.) Jacob after the wedding Susan Bier’s Oscar-nominated ninth is two films in one. I have mixed feelings about both. On the one hand, it’s a domestic drama….

A Married Couple at NWFF

posted by E. Steven Fried (April 18, 2007, 09:39 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
After having made Warrendale [68], a documentary about emotionally disturbed children, Toronto director Allan King wanted to make a film about married life. Inspired by the breakdown of his own marriage and the fact that his parents, “seemed incapable of…

Please don't piss in the ditches

posted by Kathy Fennessy (April 07, 2007, 10:02 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
GLASTONBURY (Julien Temple, UK, rated R, 138 mins.) Mrs. Matthew Barney If you’ve seen the ads for Glastonbury, you’ve probably noticed the familiar visage of Chris Martin. If you’re a Coldplay fan, you’ve probably been intrigued. If not, you’ve probably…

Dead Objects Live On

posted by Kathy Fennessy (April 04, 2007, 12:43 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Two or Three Things I Know About Her / 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1966, 35mm, 90 mins.) Juliette Janson: housewife, zombie, robot, prostitute Living people are often dead already. — Narrator ***** By…

Le Chat Dans Le Sac

posted by E. Steven Fried (March 29, 2007, 09:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
“The Canadians are like the Jews, they’re continually examining their identity… Canadians have always understood that we have to go along with the United States to a certain extent. But even though article after article threatens us with the…

He Don't Use Jelly

posted by Kathy Fennessy (March 23, 2007, 12:01 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINT (Alison Chernick, US, 2006, DV-CAM, 70 mins.) Björk Guðmundsdóttir in Drawing Restraint 9 I know a girl who thinks of ghosts She’ll make you breakfast She’ll make you toast She don’t use butter She don’t use…

Deadwood

posted by mike whybark (March 11, 2007, 01:26 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I have been thinking about westerns on and off this year - I’m working my way through Deadwood and a trip to The Searchers and The Man who Shot Liberty Valance seems in order. I might want to review…

Bowie Eyed Dog (El Aura)

posted by Kathy Fennessy (March 02, 2007, 06:11 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
EL AURA (Fabián Bielinsky, Argentina, 35mm, 2005, 129 mins.) The Taxidermist With No Name A black eyed dog he called at my door The black eyed dog he called for more A black eyed dog he knew my name. —…

Don't Hate Ghost Rider!

posted by E. Steven Fried (February 23, 2007, 09:27 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
He once ate a live cockroach. Man, everybody’s giving the finger to Ghost Rider. Even critics I know who usually dig this sort of thing have been giving it the big beat-down in the Seattle Times and The Stranger….

Valentines at The Lynwood

posted by David Jeffers (February 15, 2007, 11:00 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
After many attempts and several near misses, I finally made the trip to Bainbridge Island for The Historic Lynwood Theater’s Valentines Day screening of The African Queen. A short hop from the Coleman Dock and a quick ride down…

Agee, Huston and The African Queen

posted by David Jeffers (February 12, 2007, 12:00 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Written by … James Agee “His regard for other people’s feelings was unique in my experience. I don’t believe is was because he was afraid of hurting them, and certainly it had nothing to do with gaining in anyone’s estimation….

If You Don't Have Anything NIce to Say, Say It With Style

posted by Anne M. Hockens (February 01, 2007, 02:54 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Noir City 5 Days 4,5 and 6 The San Francisco Film Noir Festival Friday, January 26th-Sunday, February 4th, 2007 The Castro Theatre San Francisco, CA For a complete listing of the screenings go to: http://www.noircity.com/noircity.html Days four, five and six…

Why Is Everyone So Sarcastic?

posted by Anne M. Hockens (January 29, 2007, 11:28 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Noir City 5: Days Two and Three Cry Danger (1951, Dir. Robert Parish Special Guest: Richard Earlman Abandoned (1949, Dir. Joseph M. Newman) Hell’s Half Acre (1954, Dir. John Auer) 99 River Street (1953, Dir. Phil Karlson) Hell’s Half Acre…

Weinoir

posted by David Jeffers (January 27, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Asphalt (1929) Monday January 29, 7:00pm, The Paramount Theater A frenzy of murderous violence and moral turpitude lurk just beneath the urban order of Asphalt (1929). Joe May (The Indian Tomb, 1921) wrote (as Fred Majo) and directed this Ufa…

Descent into Darkness

posted by Anne M. Hockens (January 27, 2007, 12:32 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Noir City 5: Day One Raw Deal (1948, Dir. Anthony Mann) Kid Glove Killer (1942, Dir. Fred Zinneman) Special Guest: Marsha Hunt Marsha Hunt torn between naughty Lee Bowman and nice Van Heflin The San Francisco Film Noir Festival Friday,…

The Ufa Style

posted by David Jeffers (January 25, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Metropolis (1927) The emergence of Ufa as Germany’s dominant film production company in 1921 brought a unifying, identifiable look and character to Weimar film. Parallels may be drawn between this development in German film history and the consolidation of…

Deutschland, Interrupted

posted by David Jeffers (January 24, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Silent film accompanist Donald Sosin returns to the Pacific Northwest this weekend for a pair of shows, at Kenyon Hall in West Seattle and the Rose Theater in Port Townsend. Way Down East (1920) Friday January 26, 8:00pm, Kenyon Hall…

Un Bonne Flic

posted by Kathy Fennessy (January 20, 2007, 04:44 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
LE PETIT LIEUTENANT (Xavier Beauvois, France, 2005, unrated, 110 mins.) Un flic = French for a cop. Antoine and Solo take a ride I love the police procedural. It’s been around for ages and shows no signs of stopping. As…

Teuton Ecstasy: Weimar Cinema and The Mountain Film

posted by David Jeffers (January 19, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Expressionism and the abyss… The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) As the World emerged from the First World War a great infusion of money and talent poured into Hollywood, fueling the emerging studio system that produced increasingly complex and lavish…

Inland Empire

posted by Amie Simon (January 19, 2007, 11:00 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
It’s been said that watching a David Lynch film is like watching his dreams on screen. Since I usually have pretty f-ed up dreams, I can identify with that – in fact, perhaps that’s a big part of why…

A Thing of Beauty and A Boy Forever

posted by David Jeffers (January 18, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Peter Pan (1924) Sunday January 28, 12:30 & 4:00pm, The Rose Theater, Port Townsend Sir James M. Barrie and Porthos (1904) What might have been … Paramount chose A Kiss for Cinderella (1925) as their second production with playwright Sir…

Girl, Interrupted

posted by David Jeffers (January 11, 2007, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
On the coattails of a brat … By the time G. W. Pabst noticed her playing Marie, a luscious carnival high diver in Howard Hawks’ A Girl in Every Port (1928), Louise Brooks was poised to make Hollywood’s ‘A-list’….

Happy Family

posted by Kathy Fennessy (January 11, 2007, 07:29 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
51 BIRCH STREET (Doug Block, USA, 2005, BetaSP, 88 mins.) Mike and Mina Block All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy ***** To the cynic, documentaries should only…

One (or More) That Got Away

posted by Kathy Fennessy (January 01, 2007, 09:14 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
SHERRYBABY (Laura Collyer, US, rated R, 96 mins.) Sherry in her favorite halter “Two thumbs up.” — Ebert & Roeper “Grade A! A miracle of an actress!” — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly “She’s on a fast track to an Oscar…

Was It Good For You?

posted by David Jeffers (January 01, 2007, 12:03 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
My favorites from 2006, in the order I saw them: The New World The World’s Fastest Indian Hard Candy Water A Prairie Home Companion Conversations with Other Women The Proposition The Puffy Chair The Refugee All-Stars The Science of Sleep…

Gone Daddy Gone

posted by Kathy Fennessy (December 30, 2006, 01:20 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
THE TREASURES OF LONG GONE JOHN (Greg Gibbs, USA, 2006, DV-CAM, 95 mins.) Todd Schorr provides the poster art ***** We almost really care. — original Sympathy for the Record Industry motto 18 years of performance anxiety, instability, and poor…

Synthetic Noir

posted by David Jeffers (December 14, 2006, 10:03 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The Good German Thursday, December 14, 7:00pm The Guild 45th Opens Friday, December 22 Set in post-war Berlin on the eve of the August 1945 Potsdam Conference, The Good German stars George Clooney as Captain Jacob ‘Jake’ Geismer, an Army…

Make a Joyful Noise HERE

posted by Kathy Fennessy (December 14, 2006, 03:56 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
DANIELSON: A FAMILY MOVIE (JL Aronson, USA, 2006, BETA-SP, 105 mins.) “They sound like Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band joined by the Partridge Family at some roadside revival along the Jersey Turnpike.” — The All Music Guide ***** I watch documentaries…

Stop Making Scents

posted by David Jeffers (December 13, 2006, 10:22 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Wednesday, December 13, 7:00pm Lincoln Square Cinemas Opens December 27 “The Soul of a Being is their scent.” Filmgoers hankering for the shallow tale of an olfactory savant/serial killer, in search of elaborately…

Ain't It Wonderful!

posted by David Jeffers (December 09, 2006, 12:30 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
This is so fantastic I had to share! I found the BFI’s new Chaplin site last September when I was researching One AM. What I didn’t realize until I stumbled across the Film and Television Database this week, was…

Silent Winter

posted by David Jeffers (November 29, 2006, 09:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Here’s a run-down of Seattle’s winter silent film screenings, and two out of town dates well worth the trip. Roxie does The Castro Silly Symphonies (1929-1935) Saturday, December 2, 1:30pm The Castro Theater, San Francisco Chicago (1927) Saturday, December 2,…

D'Autres Nouvelles des Etoiles

posted by E. Steven Fried (November 29, 2006, 11:11 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
“There’s a trilogy in my life, an equilateral triangle, shall we say, of Gitanes, alcoholism and girls… and I didn’t say isosceles, I said equilateral.” —Serge Gainsbourg…

Poison Angel

posted by David Jeffers (November 28, 2006, 06:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Alraune (1928) Based on the medieval legend of the Mandrake, a root, which grew beneath the gallows from the semen of hanged men, Hanns Heinz Ewers novel Alraune was brought to the screen in 1928 by Ama-Film GmbH and director…

Gimme Indie Film!

posted by Kathy Fennessy (November 27, 2006, 07:52 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
MUTUAL APPRECIATION (Andrew Bujalski, USA, 2005, 35mm, 109 mins.) True, he likes the Breeders, thinks Green Day’s pretty swell, but what about the Bartlebees and Neutral Milk Hotel? It’s okay for a Sunny Day but that Sting album won’t do…

Dead Kennedys

posted by David Jeffers (November 21, 2006, 10:35 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Bobby Tuesday, November 21, 7:00pm The Harvard Exit Opens Thursday, November 23 “They made a desert, and they called it peace.” Ambitious and well-intended, Bobby attempts a level of complexity that becomes scattered and difficult to follow, while lacking…

Revelations of the Human Soul

posted by Kathy Fennessy (November 09, 2006, 11:40 AM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI SHORT FILMS “When Krzysztof Kieslowski died on March 13, 1996, it was as though a certain kind of cinema had come to an end along with him. The calm, reflective, compassionate gaze he brought to bear on the…

What Is It?

posted by Amie Simon (November 08, 2006, 11:25 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Crispin Glover’s What Is It? I was very excited to see that this show was coming to Seattle – so excited, in fact, that I purchased my tickets about 4 weeks in advance. The first part of the show…

The World According to Whitehead: Part Two

posted by Kathy Fennessy (November 04, 2006, 02:41 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
TONITE LET’S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON: A POP CONCERTO (Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1967, BetaSP, 70 mins.) Tonite lets all make love in London as if it were 2001 the years of thrilling god. — “Who Be Kind To”…

Cutting Through Repression

posted by David Jeffers (November 04, 2006, 01:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Secrets of a Soul (1926) A chemist is plagued by his reoccurring nightmares in G. W. Pabst’ exploration of psychoanalysis, Secrets of a Soul (1926). As Martin (Werner Krauss) trims the hair on the back of his wife’s (Ruth Weyher)…

Granddad Was A Street Racer

posted by David Jeffers (November 02, 2006, 10:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The Roaring Road / Excuse My Dust – Unknown Video I’ve finally had some time to work on my backlog of unwatched videos. This dvd was a pleasant surprise. Normally, I expect smaller companies to produce material of somewhat lesser…

The Devil You Say!

posted by David Jeffers (October 28, 2006, 04:00 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Tuesday October 31, 7:30pm, The Historic Lynwood Theater “Monsters, monsters, unspeakable, unspeakable!” Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse are average, happy newlyweds, until they move into an imposing, fortress-like apartment on Manhattan’s upper West Side. Everyone else at The…

I Wasn't Born to Have a Bad Time

posted by Kathy Fennessy (October 28, 2006, 12:58 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The Bridesmaid / La Demoiselle D’Honneur (Claude Chabrol, France/Germany/Italy, 2004, 35mm, 111 mins.) “The family is one of the biggest frauds ever invented…the family tree is a monstrous invention. People boasting of one of their ancestors being the Pope’s official…

The Horrors of Apartment Living

posted by David Jeffers (October 27, 2006, 11:05 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Repulsion Roman Polanski At their essence, the films of Roman Polanski are the studies of seemingly average people, thrust into conflicted and frightening circumstances. His first feature, Knife In the Water (1962) explores sexual tension and confinement, when a…

The World According to Whitehead

posted by Kathy Fennessy (October 23, 2006, 10:30 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
THE FALL (Peter Whitehead, UK, 1969, BetaSP, 120 mins.) Whitehead in 1968 I am not capable of experiencing the real and never have been, which is why I have had such an amazing life…I even married a Swedish girl so…

Slimy Rodents and Shiny Roadsters

posted by Kathy Fennessy (October 20, 2006, 09:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
TALES OF THE RAT FINK (Ron Mann, US, 78 mins.) “He’s the Salvador Dali of the movement—a surrealist in his designs.” — Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) ***** You’ve got to give props to any documentarian who…

Flaming Love, and Cholera

posted by David Jeffers (October 19, 2006, 10:01 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The11th Annual Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival The Music Lovers (1970) Sunday October 22, 12:00pm, The Cinerama “Gossip dies without a few facts to support it my friend. Tchaikovsky gives them plenty.” The fifth of seven vaguely biographical features…

LOOKING FOR CHEYENNE

posted by Franz Bieberkopf (October 19, 2006, 09:44 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
LOOKING FOR CHEYENNE Directed by Valerie Minetto Played the Seattle Gay and Lesbian film Festival NWFF Tuesday Octover 17 By Franz Bieberkopf Not long ago, queer cinema was outsider cinema, revolutionary cinema. Pasolini, Fassbinder, Borden, and Jarman are a few…

The Truth

posted by David Jeffers (October 17, 2006, 08:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
“There is no God! All of these rules are made up by man!” Bob Jyono, father of an abused child. Oliver O’Grady Deliver Us From Evil Monday October 16, 7:00pm Metro Cinemas Opens Friday, November 3 When pressed to offer…

Old Documents (revised)

posted by David Jeffers (October 16, 2006, 11:40 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Opens Friday, November 17 “I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don’t like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.” Diane…

Local Produce: Local Shorts

posted by Anne M. Hockens (October 12, 2006, 08:53 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Local Produce: Local Shorts Saturday, October 14, 12:00pm Harvard Exit Still from To Be A Heart www.seattlequeerfilm.com This 92-minute program of shorts features the queer related works of Pacific Northwest filmmakers. The films vary greatly in genre, format, subject matter,…

Boy Culture

posted by Anne M. Hockens (October 11, 2006, 07:57 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Sunday, June 15th, 9:15 p.m. Harvard Exit Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival http://www.seattlequeerfilm.com/06/index.html Please take advantage of Seattle getting this great film a second time. This review was originally written for its screening at SIFF. Here’s my problem…

Wagon Jumping (with enthusiasum)

posted by David Jeffers (October 10, 2006, 08:53 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
The Departed “Who the fuck are you?” “I’m the guy who does his job. Who are you?” How often have moviegoers observed that “So-and-so hasn’t made a decent film in years …” How often has that observation been true? Given…

Three for the Road

posted by Kathy Fennessy (October 04, 2006, 12:13 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
FREE ZONE (Amos Gitai, Israel/Belgium/France/Spain, 2005, 35mm, 90 mins.) People will basically crawl, when they’re completely exhausted and shaken, to stretch their arm out to the other side. I had hoped that people were al- ready sufficiently drained by this…

God, and Monsters

posted by David Jeffers (September 28, 2006, 11:05 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Jesus Camp (2006) Thursday September 28, 7:00pm, The Varsity Opens Friday October 6, at Metro Cinemas “Equal freedom is gonna destroy us!” For anyone subjected to Conservative Evangelical Christian dogma and culture as a child, Heidi Ewing and Rachael Grady’s…

Flyboys

posted by mike whybark (September 24, 2006, 12:34 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Well, Viv and I made the arduous trek to far Lynnwood to see Flyboys last night. Presumably due to the unorthodox funding model employed by the film (the producers made the film with their own money), the film has…

The Wicker Man

posted by Amie Simon (September 20, 2006, 03:30 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
You little liars! Here’s the thing about the original Wicker Man: It is not as if there aren’t elements that will make you laugh – there definitely are. You can’t expect to watch Christopher Lee cavorting about an island…

Sunday in Port Townsend

posted by David Jeffers (September 19, 2006, 06:49 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Yipee-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies … Uncle Dave in his cowboy’n days How much do I love Westerns? Well, I spent my youth within a bicycle ride of Niles Canyon, where Bronco Billy and the Essanay cowboys filmed amid the…

Donald Sosin Unplugged

posted by David Jeffers (September 18, 2006, 06:42 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Back in the day … Kenyon Hall, once upon a time, The Olympic Heights Social Club. Old Wood Popular silent film accompanist Donald Sosin returned to the Puget Sound area last week for a two-stop, four-show tour, beginning with…

Pass the Gravy (1928)

posted by David Jeffers (September 16, 2006, 12:27 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Pass the Gravy (1928) Wednesday September 13, 7:30pm, Kenyon Hall Describing anything as the ‘best’ or ‘greatest’ almost certainly demands subjectivity, invites unrealistic expectations and may ultimately result in disappointment. Pass the Gravy has often been described as the funniest…

Griffith and the Yiddish Silents

posted by David Jeffers (September 12, 2006, 11:16 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This week’s second evening of silent film at West Seattle’s Kenyon Hall will feature a program of Yiddish themed shorts and one feature from the National Center for Jewish Film. Musical accompaniment will again be performed by Donald Sosin. Three…

The Silents Come to Kenyon Hall

posted by David Jeffers (September 12, 2006, 12:39 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
West Seattle’s Kenyon Hall will present two nights of silent films this Wednesday and Thursday, featuring the musical accompaniment of Donald Sosin, who last performed in Seattle for SIFF 2006. Wednesdays program includes two Hal Roach comedies, Pass the Gravy…

Burning From the Inside

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Burn to Shine: Portland, OR 06.15.05 (Christoph Green, USA, 2005/06, BetaSP, 45 mins.) “It doesn’t make sense to anybody now why we would do this, besides just to do it, but in 20 years it will only get cooler and…

To Sir, With Something Like Love

posted by Kathy Fennessy (September 09, 2006, 11:54 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, US, rated R, 104 mins.) The time has come for closing books and long last looks must end And as I leave I know that I am leaving my best friend A friend…

Behind the Eight Ball (or wrecking ball)

posted by David Jeffers (August 29, 2006, 10:59 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Lament for The Roxy This comment was recently posted to www.cinematreasures.com The Roxy-2005 (photo-Scott Neff) What was formerly the Renton Roxy, has been converted into a ‘for-rent’ hall, used primarily as a storefront church. When the building was last sold…

Factotum

posted by David Jeffers (August 29, 2006, 10:58 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Tuesday August 29, 7:00pm, The Varsity Opens Friday September 1, at the Egyptian “Amazing how grimly we hold onto our misery.” Angelino poet and novelist Charles Bukowski, whose supposed indifference to praise contradicts his boozer chic commercialization, is once again…

The Iron Mask (1929)

posted by David Jeffers (August 25, 2006, 10:00 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Monday August 28, 7:00pm, The Paramount Theater Dumas amuck … Among the most popular works of literature adapted for film, Alexander Dumas’ D’Artagnan Romances, have seen no less than ninety versions produced for the screen, from Biograph’s abbreviated, Fencing Contest…

Melville's Bad Memories

posted by Kathy Fennessy (August 25, 2006, 09:39 AM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
Army of Shadows / L’Armée des ombres (Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1969, 35mm, 145 mins.) “Bad memories! I welcome you anyway…you are my long-lost youth.” — Georges Courteline quote which opens Army of Shadows ***** Though I caught a screening almost…

D'Artagnan, and the making of "Doug"

posted by David Jeffers (August 24, 2006, 10:08 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Where action heroes came from … In the spring of 1915, Douglas Fairbanks hopped a train and headed west, for Hollywood. Already an established Broadway star, Fairbanks’ disdain for “the movies” was relieved by the whopping $2000 a week Triangle…

"Last of the Journeyman Filmmakers"

posted by David Jeffers (August 23, 2006, 10:01 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Allan Dwan Behind the wheel in California, 1911 Allan Dwan may well be the last great-undiscovered master of the silent era. An electrical engineer by trade, he started out as a lighting technician for Essanay in 1909, but the movie…

The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)

posted by David Jeffers (August 12, 2006, 12:13 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Monday August 14, 7:00 pm, The Paramount Theater “While you’re unhung, Hentzau, hell lacks its master!” On the eve of his coronation, Rudolph Elphberg of Ruritania is poisoned by his jealous half-brother, Duke Michael of Strelsau. A distant English cousin,…

"The world's greatest director."

posted by David Jeffers (August 10, 2006, 10:06 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
” … the power to visualize the written word in picture form.” Rex Ingram He was a prince of Hollywood, whose own life story reads like one of the romantic adventures he brought to the big screen. The son…

Hollywoodland

posted by David Jeffers (August 09, 2006, 11:40 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Wednesday August 9, 7:00pm Pacific Place Cinemas “An actor can’t always act. Sometimes he has to earn a living.” What really happened to actor George Reeves has been the source of myth and speculation since 1959 when his death was…

The Descent

posted by Amie Simon (August 08, 2006, 02:00 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Imagine 6 women stuck in a pitch black labyrinth of caves and narrow passages leading to claustrophobia, hallucinations, and pure terror. Add in some major conflicts and a few snapped psyches and it all equals one thing: wherever you…

Don Juan (1926)

posted by David Jeffers (August 03, 2006, 11:55 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Monday August 7, 7:00pm The Paramount Theater The Actor… “I want you all to remember one thing. No matter what I may say, no matter what I may do, on this stage, during our work, I love you all.” He…

Ollie's 9/11

posted by David Jeffers (July 28, 2006, 12:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
World Trade Center Thursday July 27, 7:00pm The Harvard Exit “Pain is your friend. It means you’re alive.” Oliver Stone’s name above the title guarantees certain things. His films are well conceived, well executed, and unashamedly possessing his own…

You Little Devil!

posted by David Jeffers (July 23, 2006, 08:00 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Milestone film & video chose Tuesday, July 11th as their release date for the much anticipated Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino film Beyond the Rocks (1922). This was two short days before the trip to San Francisco and I’ve only…

Happy Loving Couples

posted by Kathy Fennessy (July 23, 2006, 08:39 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
LEMMING (Dominik Moll, France, 129 mins.) Happy loving couples make it look so easy Happy loving couples always talk so kind Until the time that I can do my dancing with a partner Those happy couples ain’t no friends of…

The 11th SFSFF - In Review

posted by David Jeffers (July 21, 2006, 12:26 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
So how did this three-day event stack up against similar silent film programs? Friday night’s choice of 7th Heaven (1927) was tremendous! Go big or don’t go at all. The SFSFF did an excellent job of making this film…

An Intelligent Primitive

posted by Kathy Fennessy (July 20, 2006, 10:37 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A GIRL IS A GUN aka AN ADVENTURE OF BILLY THE KID (Luc Moullet, France, 1971, 35mm, 100 mins.) “Reminiscent of the finale of Duel in the Sun, but pushed to the level of excruciating lunatic farce, with a touch…

The SFSFF - Day 3

posted by David Jeffers (July 17, 2006, 12:34 PM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
The third and final day of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival began with a panel presentation, Amazing Tales from the Archives. First up, Patrick Loughney from George Eastman House gave a brief description of his organization, its history…

Sam Fuller and Luc Moullet

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Brigitte and Brigitte (Luc Moullet, France, 1966, 35mm 71 mins.) “The young American filmmakers have nothing to say, Sam Fuller even less than the others. He has something to do, and he does it, naturally, without forcing it. This isn’t…

The SFSFF - Day 2

posted by David Jeffers (July 16, 2006, 08:51 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Day two began with newsreel footage of the Great Earthquakes aftermath, smoldering ruins and hasty demolition, once again with accompaniment from Michael Mortilla. The days first feature was John Ford’s Bucking Broadway (1917), starring 23-year-old Harry Carey. Bucking Broadway…

The SFSFF- Day 1

posted by David Jeffers (July 16, 2006, 12:10 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Saturday, July 15, 10:30am The Castro, San Francisco The 11th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival got off to a good start with A Trip Down Market Street, April 14, 1906, only four short days before the Great Earthquake. This…

Chico! Diane! Heaven!

posted by Anne M. Hockens (July 15, 2006, 09:21 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Seventh Heaven San Francisco Silent Film Festival Director Frank Borzage; Oscar; Actress Janet Gaynor Relationship expert Dr Joy Brown once said “Romance is the poison of the twentieth century.” After watching Seventh Heaven in a crowded theater last night, all…

SFSFF - Opening Night

posted by David Jeffers (July 14, 2006, 12:18 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Friday July 14, 12:15pm Market Street, San Francisco Foggy morning has just burned off into warm sunshine. We are here and anxiously awaiting tonight’s screening of 7th Heaven at 8:00pm. Festival director Stacey Wisnia was on hand with a…

Show People (1928)

posted by David Jeffers (July 12, 2006, 10:25 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Closing Night 2006, The San Francisco Silent Film Festival Sunday July 16, 8:00pm The Castro, San Francisco “As a Southern colonel your make-up is very Indiana” The yammering gossips of Hollywood have managed to sling more than a little mud…

The Unholy Three (1925)

posted by David Jeffers (July 11, 2006, 11:08 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Sunday July 16, 5:00pm The Castro, San Francisco “That’s all there is to life, friends – a little laughter … a little tear … ” Between 1919 to 1929, Tod Browning and Lon Chaney produced…

Girl With a Hat Box (1927)

posted by David Jeffers (July 11, 2006, 11:02 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Sunday July 16, 2:40pm The Castro, San Francisco This Boris Barnett film starring Anna Sten is a marvelous slapstick romp with a definite Russian twist. A Moscow couple lists a young girl as their tenant to get a larger apartment…

Pandora's Box (1929)

posted by David Jeffers (July 09, 2006, 11:25 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Saturday July 15, 8:20pm The Castro, San Francisco ” … watch out for this girl!” It is doubtful any film actress in the nineteen-twenties displayed a greater sense of overt sexuality on screen than Louise Brooks. With…

Sparrows (1926)

posted by David Jeffers (July 06, 2006, 06:27 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Saturday July 15, 4:20pm The Castro, San Francisco Monday August 21, 7:00pm The Paramount, Seattle Hollywood’s Oldest Teenager … In the early days of the Biograph Company, as D. W. Griffith created the new vocabulary of film, a diminutive young…

Busby Berkeley Dreams

posted by Kathy Fennessy (July 04, 2006, 09:27 AM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley, USA, 1943, 35mm, 103 mins.) I haven’t seen you in ages But it’s not as bleak as it seems We still dance on whirling stages In my Busby Berkeley dreams — “Busby Berkeley Dreams”…

7th Heaven (1927)

posted by David Jeffers (July 02, 2006, 05:19 PM, Comments: 6) MORE >>>
Friday July 14, 8:00pm The Castro, San Francisco ” The trouble with you is you won’t fight. You’re afraid! Me! I’m not afraid of anything! That’s why I’m a very remarkable fellow!” His gift for transforming the mundane, commonplace…

The Cameraman (1928)

posted by David Jeffers (June 27, 2006, 06:00 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Wednesday July 5, 5:00 & 8:00pm The Historic Lynwood Theatre, Bainbridge Island ” I’ll show you some real fancy diving! ” The Cameraman marked Buster Keaton’s move to MGM in 1928, and the loss of creative control that would…

Arranging Life's Stuff

posted by Kathy Fennessy (June 26, 2006, 10:34 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Russian Dolls / Les Poupées russes (Cédric Klapisch, France, 2005, 35mm, 125 mins.) “Writing is arranging life’s stuff.” — Xavier (Romain Duris) ***** The title has two meanings, only one of which I will reveal here: Writer/director Cédric Klapisch’s sequel…

Swelter in Silence ...

posted by David Jeffers (June 23, 2006, 11:17 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Seattle’s Silent Film Summer, a short hop to Bainbridge, and a long one to San Francisco … The Cameraman (1928) Wednesday July 5, 5:00 & 8:00pm Historic Lynwood Theatre, Bainbridge Island Buster Keaton’s finest hour … … featuring live accompaniment…

Iberia

posted by David Jeffers (June 20, 2006, 03:01 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Spain / France, 2005 (99 minutes) Saturday June 3, 6:30pm The Neptune Monday June 5, 4:30pm The Neptune North American release dates are unannounced. Few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as Carlos Saura’s brilliant interpretation…

House of Sand (Casa de Areia)

posted by David Jeffers (June 19, 2006, 10:31 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Brazil, 2005 (115 minutes) Friday June 16, 7:00pm Pacific Place Saturday June 17, 1:15pm Pacific Place Opens Friday August 11 The story of three women, marooned in a remote corner of northwest Brazil is portrayed by real life mother…

We Go Way Back

posted by David Jeffers (June 19, 2006, 08:34 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
USA, 2006 (80 minutes) Tuesday June 13, 9:30pm The Egyptian Saturday June 17, 1:30pm The Egyptian “You were great, You make a really good victim.” Kate (Amber Hubert) is everyone’s doormat. Her boss berates her, her mother makes her…

A Comedy of Power (L'lvresse du pouvoir)

posted by David Jeffers (June 18, 2006, 04:44 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
France / Germany, 2006 (110 minutes) Sunday June 11, 9:30pm Lincoln Square Saturday June 17, 9:30pm The Neptune An invitation to the home of a great chef requires no knowledge of the menu beforehand; it will surely be a…

Sneak Midnight

posted by David Jeffers (June 18, 2006, 03:24 PM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
A Scanner Darkly USA, 2006 (100 minutes) Sunday, June 18 12:00am The Neptune “I wanna be found with a copy of The Fountainhead and a letter to Exxon …” At some point in recent history, rotoscoping has become a technique…

"Happy Christmas" (The Moore is Over)

posted by David Jeffers (June 17, 2006, 09:25 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The Unknown with Portastatic Friday June 16, 9:00pm The Moore Portastatic’s approach to Tod Browning’s The Unknown last night at the Moore was not entirely meritless. I was struck by the perverse