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Big in Japan Members of Tennis Pro, a popular Seattle band, play versions of themselves and try to make it big in Japan after almost calling it quits in their hometown. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 See website for details Wednesday, February 25, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Wednesday, February 25, 2015
The Devils From 1971, Ken Russell’s satire of 17th-century France features shocks and sex aplenty. Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star. Did you know Derek Jarman did the sets? Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details Wednesday, February 25, 2015
The Last: Naruto the Movie Don’t miss the final chapter of the popular epic Japanese anime! Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Also Like Life: the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien (Millenium Mambo) The great Taiwanese filmmaker hasn’t been treated to a retrospective here in about a decade (back when NWFF ran the Grand Illusion). Here’s a welcome chance to revisit titles like Flowers of Shanghai, Dust in the Wind, and A Time to Live and a Time to Die. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 $11 Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 8pm
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Big in Japan Members of Tennis Pro, a popular Seattle band, play versions of themselves and try to make it big in Japan after almost calling it quits in their hometown. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 See website for details Thursday, February 26, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Thursday, February 26, 2015
The Devils From 1971, Ken Russell’s satire of 17th-century France features shocks and sex aplenty. Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star. Did you know Derek Jarman did the sets? Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details Thursday, February 26, 2015
The Last: Naruto the Movie Don’t miss the final chapter of the popular epic Japanese anime! Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details Thursday, February 26, 2015
Also Like Life: the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien (Flowers of Shanghai) The great Taiwanese filmmaker hasn’t been treated to a retrospective here in about a decade (back when NWFF ran the Grand Illusion). Here’s a welcome chance to revisit titles like Flowers of Shanghai, Dust in the Wind, and A Time to Live and a Time to Die. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 $9 Thursday, February 26, 2015, 7pm
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Cinema Italian Style 2014 was a quiet past year for new Italian movies; the well-reviewed Human Capital, which arrives here in February, didn’t even make the Oscar short list. So maybe it’s time for a repertory glance back at past peninsular glories with this nine-film series, running most Thursdays through March 19. In addition to proven classics like Luchino Visconti’s 1963 The Leopard, it includes new additions to the canon-notably last year’s Oscar winner, The Great Beauty. Beginning the retrospective tonight is Ossessione, Visconti’s 1943 adaptation of the James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, with its timeless themes of adultery and murder. That noir tale was filmed here in 1946 and ‘81, and there’s even a French take from 1939, but Visconti’s version-his first feature-wasn’t seen for decades in the U.S. because he didn’t clear the copyright. (Whether he had Cain’s verbal permission is another matter.) Only in 1977 did it get a stateside release, when critics noted a far more class-conscious treatment than the 1946 Lana Turner-John Garfield version: neorealism layered atop the noir. And another fun fact: This 35 mm print belongs to Martin Scorsese, that champion of film preservation and Italian cinema. BRIAN MILLER Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $63-$68 series, $8 individual Thursday, February 26, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
‘71 A young British soldier has been left behind by his unit after a riot in Belfast in 1971. See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
A Fuller Life Twelve directors/admirers of Samuel Fuller each interpret his autobiography, A Third Face. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
Everly Salma Hayek beats down assassins sent by her ex while hiding out in her apartment. See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
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Fists & Fury The Oscars are past, so now the Cinerama is celebrating . . . violence? Well, not exactly. This festival mostly harkens back to the golden era of kung fu and martial-arts movies, the genre that Seattle-educated Bruce Lee helped make an international sensation during the ‘70s. (Remember to visit the Wing Luke’s ongoing exhibit dedicated to his local years and subsequent film career.) Yet along with chopsocky favorites like Game of Death and Enter the Dragon (the latter at 7:30 p.m. tonight), the series also ventures back to Kurosawa classics Rashomon and Yojimbo, action comedies from the likes of Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow (The Legend of the Drunken Master, Shaolin Soccer, etc.), and the artful, Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, always worth revisiting. Like a Chinese restaurant buffet, this is a spinning sampler of flying fists and feet, numbering 18 titles in all (plus both halves of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill). Also represented are not-so-spry Jet Li and Donnie Yen, both from the last generation of wuxia stars (all those stunts take a toll on the body). Where are the younger roundhouse-kickers like Iko Uwais (The Raid) or Tony Jaa (Ong-bak)? I guess they’ll have to wait for Fists & Fury 2. BRIAN MILLER Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $12 Friday, February 27, 2015
Focus Will Smith is a seasoned con artist who takes a young, beautiful woman (Margot Robbie from The Wolf of Wall Street) under his wing . . . and possibly into his heart? We’re guessing yes. See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
Little Boy A 7-year-old will do whatever it takes to end World War II if it means he can bring his father home. See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
Maps to the Stars David Cronenberg delivers the story of a fame-obsessed Hollywood family. Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska star. Sundance Cinemas, 4500 Ninth Ave. N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
My Life Follow Ryan Gosling and director Nicolas Winding Refn in this documentary about the filming of Only God Forgives.
See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
Salad Days A comprehensive and insightful documentary about the D.C. punk-rock scene, featuring Ian MacKaye, Bad Brains, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and Minor Threat. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
The Devils From 1971, Ken Russell’s satire of 17th-century France features shocks and sex aplenty. Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star. Did you know Derek Jarman did the sets? Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details Friday, February 27, 2015
The Lazarus Effect Things get spooky when a group of medical students find a way to bring patients back from the dead. Does this involve Obamacare? See website for details. Friday, February 27, 2015
The Long Night A film about American sex trade set in Seattle. Keystone Congregational Church, 5019 Keystone Pl. N., Seattle, WA 98103 Donation Friday, February 27, 2015, 7pm
To Light a Candle Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Maziar Bahari explores the persecution of the Baha’is in this documentary. University of Washington Campus, 15th Ave. N.E. and N.E. 41st St., Seattle, WA 98105 Free Friday, February 27, 2015, 7:30pm
Also Like Life: the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien (Good Men, Good Women) The great Taiwanese filmmaker hasn’t been treated to a retrospective here in about a decade (back when NWFF ran the Grand Illusion). Here’s a welcome chance to revisit titles like Flowers of Shanghai, Dust in the Wind, and A Time to Live and a Time to Die. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $11 Friday, February 27, 2015, 8pm
A Fuller Life Twelve directors/admirers of Samuel Fuller each interpret his autobiography, A Third Face. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Saturday, February 28, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Saturday, February 28, 2015
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Fists & Fury The Oscars are past, so now the Cinerama is celebrating . . . violence? Well, not exactly. This festival mostly harkens back to the golden era of kung fu and martial-arts movies, the genre that Seattle-educated Bruce Lee helped make an international sensation during the ‘70s. (Remember to visit the Wing Luke’s ongoing exhibit dedicated to his local years and subsequent film career.) Yet along with chopsocky favorites like Game of Death and Enter the Dragon (the latter at 7:30 p.m. tonight), the series also ventures back to Kurosawa classics Rashomon and Yojimbo, action comedies from the likes of Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow (The Legend of the Drunken Master, Shaolin Soccer, etc.), and the artful, Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, always worth revisiting. Like a Chinese restaurant buffet, this is a spinning sampler of flying fists and feet, numbering 18 titles in all (plus both halves of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill). Also represented are not-so-spry Jet Li and Donnie Yen, both from the last generation of wuxia stars (all those stunts take a toll on the body). Where are the younger roundhouse-kickers like Iko Uwais (The Raid) or Tony Jaa (Ong-bak)? I guess they’ll have to wait for Fists & Fury 2. BRIAN MILLER Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $12 Saturday, February 28, 2015
Princess Angeline The story of the Duwamish people is filtered through the life of Princess Angeline, daughter of Chief Sealth. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 See website for details. Saturday, February 28, 2015
Salad Days A comprehensive and insightful documentary about the D.C. punk-rock scene, featuring Ian MacKaye, Bad Brains, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and Minor Threat. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Saturday, February 28, 2015
The Devils From 1971, Ken Russell’s satire of 17th-century France features shocks and sex aplenty. Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star. Did you know Derek Jarman did the sets? Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details Saturday, February 28, 2015
Also Like Life: the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien (Millenium Mambo) The great Taiwanese filmmaker hasn’t been treated to a retrospective here in about a decade (back when NWFF ran the Grand Illusion). Here’s a welcome chance to revisit titles like Flowers of Shanghai, Dust in the Wind, and A Time to Live and a Time to Die. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 $9 Saturday, February 28, 2015, 4:45pm
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Sync Music Video Festival When John Landis directed the video to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” back in the early ‘80s, his intended venue was not television, where MTV was then busy building an empire out of video stars, but a movie theater where the short film-which happened to include one of the biggest hits of the century and a zombie Michael-could be fully appreciated. Hard to imagine such a vision in this current era, when we watch most of our videos on our phones. It’s really not an enjoyable experience. The screen is the size of a postcard-maybe-the sound quality is garbage, and, let’s be honest, it’s hard to stay focused on one thing for three minutes when the option to chat with your friends is ever-present. Our current deficit of a proper venue for videos (MTV, I hardly know you) is why Artist Home, along with Seattle Weekly and SIFF, has put together the Sync Music Video Festival. Now in its third year, the festival will feature a collection of videos highlighting directors and musicians from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. This year we will be recognizing the work of directors Leeni Ramadan, Tristan Seniuk, and Ransom & Reason; shining a spotlight on the videos made for Shabazz Palaces’ music; and screening a world premiere of OCnotes’ “Hum Drum Killa,” directed by last year’s Sync Grand Jury Award winner Stephan Gray. All this on the big screen, where, as Landis knew, this work belongs. MARK BAUMGARTEN SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 $15 Saturday, February 28, 2015, 9pm
A Fuller Life Twelve directors/admirers of Samuel Fuller each interpret his autobiography, A Third Face. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Sunday, March 1, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Sunday, March 1, 2015
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Fists & Fury The Oscars are past, so now the Cinerama is celebrating . . . violence? Well, not exactly. This festival mostly harkens back to the golden era of kung fu and martial-arts movies, the genre that Seattle-educated Bruce Lee helped make an international sensation during the ‘70s. (Remember to visit the Wing Luke’s ongoing exhibit dedicated to his local years and subsequent film career.) Yet along with chopsocky favorites like Game of Death and Enter the Dragon (the latter at 7:30 p.m. tonight), the series also ventures back to Kurosawa classics Rashomon and Yojimbo, action comedies from the likes of Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow (The Legend of the Drunken Master, Shaolin Soccer, etc.), and the artful, Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, always worth revisiting. Like a Chinese restaurant buffet, this is a spinning sampler of flying fists and feet, numbering 18 titles in all (plus both halves of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill). Also represented are not-so-spry Jet Li and Donnie Yen, both from the last generation of wuxia stars (all those stunts take a toll on the body). Where are the younger roundhouse-kickers like Iko Uwais (The Raid) or Tony Jaa (Ong-bak)? I guess they’ll have to wait for Fists & Fury 2. BRIAN MILLER Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $12 Sunday, March 1, 2015
Salad Days A comprehensive and insightful documentary about the D.C. punk-rock scene, featuring Ian MacKaye, Bad Brains, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and Minor Threat. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Sunday, March 1, 2015
A Fuller Life Twelve directors/admirers of Samuel Fuller each interpret his autobiography, A Third Face. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Monday, March 2, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Monday, March 2, 2015
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Fists & Fury The Oscars are past, so now the Cinerama is celebrating . . . violence? Well, not exactly. This festival mostly harkens back to the golden era of kung fu and martial-arts movies, the genre that Seattle-educated Bruce Lee helped make an international sensation during the ‘70s. (Remember to visit the Wing Luke’s ongoing exhibit dedicated to his local years and subsequent film career.) Yet along with chopsocky favorites like Game of Death and Enter the Dragon (the latter at 7:30 p.m. tonight), the series also ventures back to Kurosawa classics Rashomon and Yojimbo, action comedies from the likes of Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow (The Legend of the Drunken Master, Shaolin Soccer, etc.), and the artful, Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, always worth revisiting. Like a Chinese restaurant buffet, this is a spinning sampler of flying fists and feet, numbering 18 titles in all (plus both halves of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill). Also represented are not-so-spry Jet Li and Donnie Yen, both from the last generation of wuxia stars (all those stunts take a toll on the body). Where are the younger roundhouse-kickers like Iko Uwais (The Raid) or Tony Jaa (Ong-bak)? I guess they’ll have to wait for Fists & Fury 2. BRIAN MILLER Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $12 Monday, March 2, 2015
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Metropolis It’s not unusual for a film to be cheered by viewers; it is unusual for a film score to be cheered. One of the most memorable moments in any Degenerate Art Ensemble performance over the years (which is saying something) came during their live accompaniment to Fritz Lang’s 1927 expressionistic sci-fi film, a surreal transformation scene that had the thrilled audience roaring. Composers Haruko Nishimura, Joshua Kohl, Ian Rashkin, Tim Young, Troy Swanson, and Ambrose Nortness contributed to the score, and tonight the DAE is reviving it-with 40 new minutes of music and played by a 17-piece orchestra-15 years after its premiere for 10,000 viewers at Gas Works Park. The Paramount, 911 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101 $10 Monday, March 2, 2015, 7pm
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Self Absorb In the first minute of Self Absorb, an indie animated web series by Seattle’s Ian Obermuller, a green man wakes up with amnesia in an alien jungle, greeted by two talking cats who have received consciousness transplants. A couple of scenes later, we are treated to jokes about phenomenology, and a purplish old man named Doctor Trellis delivers the amazing line “I’m not a wizard, I’m a metaphysicist.” Developed over the years in his free time, the first two episodes of Obermuller’s series, released on the web in 2010 and 2011, went criminally underrated. Its high production values, deliciously trippy design, and unique fusion of surreal goofiness and serious philosophical contemplation is way better than 99 percent of the junk on TV. Obermuller will debut all four chapters of the recently completed series at the Northwest Film Forum, and if you are a fan of Chad VanGaalen’s melty music videos, the work of Moebius, or Star Trek-style space operas, you are going to devour Self Absorb. Also, the show’s got mothertruckin’ dancing salamanders in it. KELTON SEARS Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $5 Monday, March 2, 2015, 8pm
A Fuller Life Twelve directors/admirers of Samuel Fuller each interpret his autobiography, A Third Face. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Fists & Fury The Oscars are past, so now the Cinerama is celebrating . . . violence? Well, not exactly. This festival mostly harkens back to the golden era of kung fu and martial-arts movies, the genre that Seattle-educated Bruce Lee helped make an international sensation during the ‘70s. (Remember to visit the Wing Luke’s ongoing exhibit dedicated to his local years and subsequent film career.) Yet along with chopsocky favorites like Game of Death and Enter the Dragon (the latter at 7:30 p.m. tonight), the series also ventures back to Kurosawa classics Rashomon and Yojimbo, action comedies from the likes of Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow (The Legend of the Drunken Master, Shaolin Soccer, etc.), and the artful, Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, always worth revisiting. Like a Chinese restaurant buffet, this is a spinning sampler of flying fists and feet, numbering 18 titles in all (plus both halves of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill). Also represented are not-so-spry Jet Li and Donnie Yen, both from the last generation of wuxia stars (all those stunts take a toll on the body). Where are the younger roundhouse-kickers like Iko Uwais (The Raid) or Tony Jaa (Ong-bak)? I guess they’ll have to wait for Fists & Fury 2. BRIAN MILLER Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $12 Tuesday, March 3, 2015
A Fuller Life Twelve directors/admirers of Samuel Fuller each interpret his autobiography, A Third Face. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Wednesday, March 4, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Wednesday, March 4, 2015
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Fists & Fury The Oscars are past, so now the Cinerama is celebrating . . . violence? Well, not exactly. This festival mostly harkens back to the golden era of kung fu and martial-arts movies, the genre that Seattle-educated Bruce Lee helped make an international sensation during the ‘70s. (Remember to visit the Wing Luke’s ongoing exhibit dedicated to his local years and subsequent film career.) Yet along with chopsocky favorites like Game of Death and Enter the Dragon (the latter at 7:30 p.m. tonight), the series also ventures back to Kurosawa classics Rashomon and Yojimbo, action comedies from the likes of Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow (The Legend of the Drunken Master, Shaolin Soccer, etc.), and the artful, Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, always worth revisiting. Like a Chinese restaurant buffet, this is a spinning sampler of flying fists and feet, numbering 18 titles in all (plus both halves of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill). Also represented are not-so-spry Jet Li and Donnie Yen, both from the last generation of wuxia stars (all those stunts take a toll on the body). Where are the younger roundhouse-kickers like Iko Uwais (The Raid) or Tony Jaa (Ong-bak)? I guess they’ll have to wait for Fists & Fury 2. BRIAN MILLER Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $12 Wednesday, March 4, 2015
A Fuller Life Twelve directors/admirers of Samuel Fuller each interpret his autobiography, A Third Face. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Thursday, March 5, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Thursday, March 5, 2015
Festival of (In)Appropriation Films that can be classified as collage, compilation, found footage, or recycled cinema. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 See website for details. Thursday, March 5, 2015
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Fists & Fury The Oscars are past, so now the Cinerama is celebrating . . . violence? Well, not exactly. This festival mostly harkens back to the golden era of kung fu and martial-arts movies, the genre that Seattle-educated Bruce Lee helped make an international sensation during the ‘70s. (Remember to visit the Wing Luke’s ongoing exhibit dedicated to his local years and subsequent film career.) Yet along with chopsocky favorites like Game of Death and Enter the Dragon (the latter at 7:30 p.m. tonight), the series also ventures back to Kurosawa classics Rashomon and Yojimbo, action comedies from the likes of Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow (The Legend of the Drunken Master, Shaolin Soccer, etc.), and the artful, Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, always worth revisiting. Like a Chinese restaurant buffet, this is a spinning sampler of flying fists and feet, numbering 18 titles in all (plus both halves of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill). Also represented are not-so-spry Jet Li and Donnie Yen, both from the last generation of wuxia stars (all those stunts take a toll on the body). Where are the younger roundhouse-kickers like Iko Uwais (The Raid) or Tony Jaa (Ong-bak)? I guess they’ll have to wait for Fists & Fury 2. BRIAN MILLER Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $12 Thursday, March 5, 2015
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Cinema Italian Style 2014 was a quiet past year for new Italian movies; the well-reviewed Human Capital, which arrives here in February, didn’t even make the Oscar short list. So maybe it’s time for a repertory glance back at past peninsular glories with this nine-film series, running most Thursdays through March 19. In addition to proven classics like Luchino Visconti’s 1963 The Leopard, it includes new additions to the canon-notably last year’s Oscar winner, The Great Beauty. Beginning the retrospective tonight is Ossessione, Visconti’s 1943 adaptation of the James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, with its timeless themes of adultery and murder. That noir tale was filmed here in 1946 and ‘81, and there’s even a French take from 1939, but Visconti’s version-his first feature-wasn’t seen for decades in the U.S. because he didn’t clear the copyright. (Whether he had Cain’s verbal permission is another matter.) Only in 1977 did it get a stateside release, when critics noted a far more class-conscious treatment than the 1946 Lana Turner-John Garfield version: neorealism layered atop the noir. And another fun fact: This 35 mm print belongs to Martin Scorsese, that champion of film preservation and Italian cinema. BRIAN MILLER Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $63-$68 series, $8 individual Thursday, March 5, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Friday, March 6, 2015
Buzzard “Albert Camus meets Freddy Krueger” in this comedy about the American working class. Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Friday, March 6, 2015
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Chappie Chappie is the adopted son of a strange family. He is also a robot. The film’s directed by Neill Blomkamp of District 9 fame. Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 See website for details. Friday, March 6, 2015
Merchants of Doubt A documentary looking at pundits-for-hire who are presented as scientific authorities but use their expertise to espouse corporate views on climate change, pharmaceuticals, and toxic chemicals. See website for details. Friday, March 6, 2015
Queen and Country John Boorman’s followup to Hope and Glory, with the Korean War as a backdrop to ‘50s England. Sundance Cinemas, 4500 Ninth Ave. N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Friday, March 6, 2015
The Coup Owen Wilson stars in a thriller about an American family caught up in a dangerous overseas coup. See website for details. Friday, March 6, 2015
The Salvation Denmark’s handsomest actor, Mads Mikkelsen, stars in this unlikely Western with former Bond girl Eva Green. SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 See website for details. Friday, March 6, 2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel The ensemble in this geezer sequel features Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, and Richard Gere. See website for details. Friday, March 6, 2015
Unfinished Business Vince Vaughn and Dave Franco are businessmen who travel to Europe to close a huge deal. Everything you can imagine going wrong does. See website for details. Friday, March 6, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Saturday, March 7, 2015
Camera for Choreography Visiting filmmaker Jeremy Moss lectures on filmmaker/dancer collaboration. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 See website for details. Saturday, March 7, 2015
Space Immaterial/Immaterial Place The films of Jeremy Moss feature The Blue Record, (un)tethered, Those Inescapable Slivers of Celluloid, Chroma, Cicatrix, That Dizzying Crest, and The Sight. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 See website for details. Saturday, March 7, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Sunday, March 8, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Monday, March 9, 2015
Faust A silent-movie adaptation of Goethe from F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu), with live organ. The Paramount, 911 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Monday, March 9, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Thursday, March 12, 2015
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Cinema Italian Style 2014 was a quiet past year for new Italian movies; the well-reviewed Human Capital, which arrives here in February, didn’t even make the Oscar short list. So maybe it’s time for a repertory glance back at past peninsular glories with this nine-film series, running most Thursdays through March 19. In addition to proven classics like Luchino Visconti’s 1963 The Leopard, it includes new additions to the canon-notably last year’s Oscar winner, The Great Beauty. Beginning the retrospective tonight is Ossessione, Visconti’s 1943 adaptation of the James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, with its timeless themes of adultery and murder. That noir tale was filmed here in 1946 and ‘81, and there’s even a French take from 1939, but Visconti’s version-his first feature-wasn’t seen for decades in the U.S. because he didn’t clear the copyright. (Whether he had Cain’s verbal permission is another matter.) Only in 1977 did it get a stateside release, when critics noted a far more class-conscious treatment than the 1946 Lana Turner-John Garfield version: neorealism layered atop the noir. And another fun fact: This 35 mm print belongs to Martin Scorsese, that champion of film preservation and Italian cinema. BRIAN MILLER Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $63-$68 series, $8 individual Thursday, March 12, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Friday, March 13, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Saturday, March 14, 2015
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Saturday, March 14, 2015, 7:30pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Sunday, March 15, 2015
