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Melissa Tamminga | Seattle Screen Scene
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Your guide to the best in Seattle-area Arthouse and Repertory Film. Kensho at the Bedfellow. Brad Raider, 2016). September 10, 2016. September 11, 2016. Kensho at the Bedfellow. The feature debut film, starring, and written and directed by, Brad Raider, opens with a bang. A literal bang. And a cat. A towering, talking puppet cat, who, when the man we will come to know as our main character, Dan (Raider), staggering, asks, Is this a dream? Something like Falkor, the Luckdragon, from. August 10, 2016.
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Michael Strenski | Seattle Screen Scene
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Your guide to the best in Seattle-area Arthouse and Repertory Film. Joel Potrykus, 2016). November 6, 2016. If Matt Damon was living in a rusty trailer deep in the Michigan woods and he decided to. Science the shit out of spare cleaning chemicals because he wasn’t smart, just insane. Call it. Was a clarion call for humanity’s aspirational best. Is the sobering reality that 99% of us would quickly go nuts if left to our own devices. Continue reading →. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience. October 9, 2016.
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Friday August 14 – Thursday August 20 | Seattle Screen Scene
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Your guide to the best in Seattle-area Arthouse and Repertory Film. Friday August 14 – Thursday August 20. August 14, 2015. August 21, 2015. At the SIFF Uptown Cinemas. Driving relentlessly toward an instant-classic ending. Our Review. Sign up for our newsletter. And get the best of Seattle arthouse and repertory programming in your Inbox every Friday morning. John Hughes, 1984) Fri-Weds. Roger Vadim, 1968) Fri-Weds. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Brett Morgan) Fri- Thurs.
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A Better Tomorrow (John Woo, 1986) | Seattle Screen Scene
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Your guide to the best in Seattle-area Arthouse and Repertory Film. John Woo, 1986). June 26, 2015. August 28, 2015. After an up and down decade as a director for hire in the last days of the Shaw Brothers, working alternately in the wuxia and wacky comedy genres, John Woo finally hit it big in 1986 when he teamed up with Tsui Hark and the Cinema City studio to remake Patrick Lung Kong’s 1967 drama. The Story of a Discharged Prisoner. One of the most influential films of the past 30 years,. For Ringo Lam,.
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Jenny’s Wedding (Mary Agnes Donoghue, 2015) | Seattle Screen Scene
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Your guide to the best in Seattle-area Arthouse and Repertory Film. Mary Agnes Donoghue, 2015). August 13, 2015. August 13, 2015. This guest review comes from Sue Lonac, Professor of English and Film, at Whatcom Community College. Claire of the Moon. Has there been this much dismal hand-wringing about being a lesbian. Even. Was more fun than this. I’m afraid the fault lies with the writer-director, Mary Agnes Donoghue (and, to a lesser extent, with Brian Byrne, whose intrusive score only highlights the m...
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Friday August 7 – Thursday August 13 | Seattle Screen Scene
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Your guide to the best in Seattle-area Arthouse and Repertory Film. Friday August 7 – Thursday August 13. August 7, 2015. August 14, 2015. The Look of Silence. At the Northwest Film Forum. Joshua Oppenheimer follows his acclaimed 2012 documentary. The Act of Killing. The Sound of Music. Which also plays this week at the Central Cinema. Our Podcast. Sign up for our newsletter. And get the best of Seattle arthouse and repertory programming in your Inbox every Friday morning. F Gary Gray, 1995). Kyle Patric...
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The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, 1993) | Seattle Screen Scene
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Your guide to the best in Seattle-area Arthouse and Repertory Film. Johnnie To, 1993). August 1, 2015. August 1, 2015. Before becoming an renowned auteur, a favorite of critics and film festivals the world over, Johnnie To was known primarily in the West for the two films he made in 1993 in collaboration with director and action choreographer Ching Siu-tung. Star Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui as superheroes in a pre- and then post-apocalyptic Hong Kong, a wuxia. Song of the Exile. But premat...
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Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan, 2015) | Seattle Screen Scene
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Your guide to the best in Seattle-area Arthouse and Repertory Film. Kabir Khan, 2015). July 31, 2015. July 31, 2015. This guest review comes from Jhon Hernandez. Of the Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture. Kabir Khan, a former documentarian, seems attracted to political subjects first and foremost. His 2009 feature,. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. His 2012 feature,. There’s no such tension in. Who lives to good deeds, worship Hanuman, and woo Kareena Kapoor. This isn’t a film like. That isn’t about a hum...
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Ricki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, 2015) | Seattle Screen Scene
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Your guide to the best in Seattle-area Arthouse and Repertory Film. Ricki and the Flash. Jonathan Demme, 2015). August 6, 2015. August 6, 2015. And she sings, too, with that same mastery and joy we see in her acting. Her early training, as she told Terry Gross on. In 2012, included opera, and she’s proved her vocal quality and her skill in musical performance in films like. Postcards from the Edge, A Prairie Home Companion. Never mind her acting, I’d go to a concert just to hear Meryl Streep sing. Demme,...
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