How a neophyte Seattle director stumbled into making a surefire, lump-in-your-throat sports documentary. But would you give up seven years of your life for a deal with Miramax?
FUNNY GIRL Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $24.95 ALONG WITH the essential restoration of William Wyler’s 1968 film to its ravishing…
Improving on a proven method for getting chicks.
Opens Fri., Oct. 7, at Pacific Place and others.
Local critics horn in on this year’s obligatory Oscar controversy. Spoiler alert: We’re telling what happens to Hilary Swank.
“It’s kinda half-night,” says one observer.
Also: Bright Leaves, Proteus, and Remember Me, My Love.
Do we really need another film festival?
French New Wave classic looks both forward and back.
Finally, the director reins in his own worst instincts.
Opens at Meridian and Oak Tree, Fri., Aug. 18. Rated PG-13. 93 minutes.
Ed Wood, Harry Nilsson, and East Germans in space!
Opens at Big Picture Redmond and Northwest Film Forum, Fri., July 7. Not rated. 125 minutes.
OCEAN’S ELEVEN Warner Home Video, $26.98 A QUASI-HOMAGE to the 1960 Rat Pack vehicle, Ocean’s Eleven replaces the original’s ring-a-ding…
A madcap paean to the missed ‘potential’ of Gong Show creator Chuck Barris.
The small stuff shines in seventh annual queer cinema fest.
The balance is starting to shift, or should, between musty old Holocaust movies and present-day Jewish reality on-screen.
Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $28.95
THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, $29.95 “Children in a Hollywood movie are immaculate objects, little smart-alecky bastards that…
Love or the bottle—which is more destructive?
