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Strangers With Candy

Showing at Varsity, Fri., July 7–Thurs., July 13. Rated R. 85 minutes.

Anthology editor Eggers.

Arts & Culture

Choice Cuts

Dave Eggers makes your bus ride that much easier to bear.

Ali will make her second Seattle visit.

Arts & Culture

Cooking, Politics, and Broken Hearts

Those are just some of the subjects visiting authors will bring to town this summer.

Desert Islands and Defiant Barflies

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Desert Islands and Defiant Barflies

Every comic situation is represented in this massive cartoon anthology—and then some.

Kilcher rescues Jamestown from its civilized savagery.

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After Eden

Terrence Malick's North American paradise is visited by fallible colonists. Nature child Pocahontas somehow redeems them all.

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Ghost writers

The director and author explain the comic-book back story at SIFF.

Arts & Culture

Booty camp

Being a Seafair Pirate isn't as easy as it looks.

Game over, man! Josh Hartnett (right) calls for backup.

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The lost patrol

Nine years later, victory is claimed from defeat.

Ill-suited spouses Christiane Millet and Jean-Pierre Bacri.

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Scratch the surface

Getting past the barriers to human understanding.

First time's a charm for Bezos.

Arts & Culture

Profile: MacKenzie Bezos

Author of The Testing of Luther Albright.

Matsu as shy servant Kie.

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The Hidden Blade

Showing at Varsity, Fri., July 14–Thurs., July 20. Rated R. 132 minutes.

Lohman and Bacon: secrets and lies.

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Where the Truth Lies

Opens Fri., Oct. 28, at Uptown and Varsity.

Up close and personal: Hunt and Gere.

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Between the legs

Altman attempts to fill the void.

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Mission: Impossible 2

Intensity and uplinks down under.

Rapt pupil Gyllenhaal

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The killing moon

Youth counts down 28 days to a date with destiny.

The tough guy turns soft: Beat Takeshi and Yusuke Sekiguchi.

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Kikujiro

Japan's hard-ass hero gets slightly sappy.

Lachow on the waterfront.

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Sound plus image

Local auteur makes himself heard outside the system.

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In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01

IN MEMORIAM: NEW YORK CITY 9/11/01 HBO Home Video, $19.98 YOU’RE GOING TO SEE a lot of Sept.…

Concealed Weapons

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Concealed Weapons

Hollow-points, steel jackets, and the arsenal of history.

George C. Scott, Peter Bull, and Peter Sellers fight in the war room.

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Dr. Strangelove

Nothing can sap or impurify this precious black comedy.