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Battle in Seattle: At Last, Our WTO Protests Hit the Silver Screen
No movie made in Seattle has had so much positive local brand awareness as Battle in Seattle, even…
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: The Welcome Return of Wayne Wang to His Indie Roots
As an escape from the Hollywood machine that hired him for products like Maid in Manhattan and Last…
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PICK Ten Nights of Dreams: Japanese Anthology Film Is Enthrallingly Weird
Based on an anthology of short stories published by Japanese writer Natsume Soseki in 1908, Ten Nights is…
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Towelhead: Adolescence Is Hell During the First Gulf War
American Beauty scribe Alan Ball makes his dreaded feature-directing debut with another tale of suburban purgatory, featuring yet…
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Burn After Reading: Coen Brothers Make a Sour Business of Comedy
Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given…
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Cthulhu: Seattle Monorail Enthusiast Turns to the Dark(er) Side
Written and produced by local ex-politico Grant Cogswell, who once championed the monorail, Cthulhu is a no less…
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The Women: Meg Ryan Needs a Botox Intervention
Trailing negative buzz and a revolving door of A-list talent since its inception in 1994, Diane English’s pudding…
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The Sensation of Sight: Would You Like to Buy an Encyclopedia?
Aaron Wiederspahn’s feature debut blurs the line between illness—in this case borderline autism—and plain loneliness, gently suggesting that…
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Ping Pong Playa: Behold My Paddles of Fury!
Documentary filmmaker Jessica Yu takes a breather from chronicling heavy-duty outsider artists (In the Realms of the Unreal)…
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Trumbo: Blacklisted, But Unbowed
Based on Christopher Trumbo’s play about his hell-raising pop, the Spartacus screenwriter sentenced to prison for refusing to…
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PICK In Search of a Midnight Kiss: Refined Romance in L.A.
Did Los Angeles sign with a new agent? Heretofore best known for its performances as urban jungle, moneyed…
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Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild: No, Please, Dont
Previously on Another Gay Movie, Todd Stephens’ racist and pandering but almost canny response to American Pie, Nico…
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Ripple Effect: Forest Whitaker Wants You to Bang His Wife
One day you ask your neighbor to borrow a cup of sugar. The next, you win an Oscar…
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PICK I Served the King of England: Making a Mockery of European Fascism
Septuagenarian Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel’s latest boasts the same darkly sarcastic and lyrically absurdist trademarks that fellow Czech…
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The Human Condition: Part I: War Is Hell, Over and Over and Over Again
The three-part, fuming, World War II bummer The Human Condition (1959-61)—considered the magnum opus of socially critical Japanese…
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A Jihad for Love: Gays Find Intolerance in Islam, Too
Muslims, Jews, and Christians may have their, oh, occasional differences, but as an Islamic scholar observes in Parvez…
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PICK La France: WWI Treated as a Horrible Fairytale
La France is a platoon film unlike any I’ve ever seen. Director Serge Bozon treats the first total…
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Constantine’s Sword: Something’s Rotten in the Vatican
Runs at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., Aug. 29–Thurs., Sept. 4. Not rated. 95 minutes. X marks the spot,…
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Traitor: Don Cheadle Turns to the Dark Side
Opens at Guild 45 and Lincoln Square, Wed., Aug. 27. Rated PG-13. 114 minutes. In its well-written first…