Friday 5/22
The Nightmare
The Nightmare
11:55pm The Egyptian
This looks to be a fascinating and horrifying documentary on sleep paralysis, using reenactments to show the true effect of the condition and its accompanying hallucinations. While I desperately want to see this film about true life night terrors, I absolutely do not want to ride the bus home alone at 2am afterwards. I may wait til the 25th so that I can see it early and go home while it’s still light out.
Saturday 5/23
Faces of Yesler Terrace
This looks to be a fascinating and horrifying documentary on sleep paralysis, using reenactments to show the true effect of the condition and its accompanying hallucinations. While I desperately want to see this film about true life night terrors, I absolutely do not want to ride the bus home alone at 2am afterwards. I may wait til the 25th so that I can see it early and go home while it’s still light out.
Saturday 5/23
Faces of Yesler Terrace
11:00 am Harvard Exit
No matter what your thoughts are on Seattle’s changing culture, these two short films looks to be mandatory viewing for anyone interested in sustainable neighborhoods, urban development, the sociopolitical face of gentrification, and all that civic stuff. ^LG
No matter what your thoughts are on Seattle’s changing culture, these two short films looks to be mandatory viewing for anyone interested in sustainable neighborhoods, urban development, the sociopolitical face of gentrification, and all that civic stuff. ^LG
Manglehorn
11:00 am The Egyptian
I can’t help but see Al Swearengen in the promo photo.
If that’s not enough (and really, it should be, but I get it, sometimes people need more), Al Pacino’s performance in this eccentric romance is said to be quiet and nuanced, a throwback to some of his earliest roles – and he’s got cats. Or at least a cat. Oh, and Holly Hunter’s in it, too.
I’m sure there’s a deep look at the complexities of human emotion here, and that Pacino’s profession as a locksmith is probably very allegorical, but honestly they had me at cat. ^LG
808
9:30pm Uptown
What do Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing,” Lil Wayne’s “Let the Beat Build,” and The Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” and the entire band 808 State have in common? The Roland TR-808 drum machine. Pop some Egyptian Lover in your Walkman and prepare to get schooled. ^LG
What do Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing,” Lil Wayne’s “Let the Beat Build,” and The Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” and the entire band 808 State have in common? The Roland TR-808 drum machine. Pop some Egyptian Lover in your Walkman and prepare to get schooled. ^LG
Alleluia
9:45pm Uptown
This looks to be amazingly upsetting; Variety calls Fabrice Du Welz’s latest, a remake of The Honeymoon Killers, “an exercise in audience discomfort” while evoking Sweeney Todd and fills their review with adjectives like codependent, jealous, grotesque, and gargoyle-like.
So yeah, a musical rom-com that’s right up my alley. ^LG
People Places Things
1:30pm The Egyptian
Jemaine Clement, newly of What We Do in the Shadows, plays a graphic novel artist dealing with single dadhood, new romance, and balancing life and art and all. On the surface, it sounds very twee, and it may well be, but Clement’s recent turn as the vampire Vladislav shows he’s got some mighty charming chops. I’m in.
One Million Dubliners
6:30pm Harvard Exit
A tour of Glasnevin Cemetery, Ireland’s national graveyard. So many stories…
The Automatic Hate
8:30pm Uptown
Millennials get a lot of guff, they are often accused of having short attention spans, being tech-dependent, and not really having a handle on cultural history. I mean come on, most of them haven’t even seen Footloose. But what’s really telling is how they deal with the sins of their fathers.
Director Justin Lerner, writer Katharine O'Brien, and producer Lacey Leavitt are scheduled to attend, so be prepared for some good discussion.
1:30pm The Egyptian
Jemaine Clement, newly of What We Do in the Shadows, plays a graphic novel artist dealing with single dadhood, new romance, and balancing life and art and all. On the surface, it sounds very twee, and it may well be, but Clement’s recent turn as the vampire Vladislav shows he’s got some mighty charming chops. I’m in.
One Million Dubliners
6:30pm Harvard Exit
A tour of Glasnevin Cemetery, Ireland’s national graveyard. So many stories…
The Automatic Hate
8:30pm Uptown
Millennials get a lot of guff, they are often accused of having short attention spans, being tech-dependent, and not really having a handle on cultural history. I mean come on, most of them haven’t even seen Footloose. But what’s really telling is how they deal with the sins of their fathers.
Director Justin Lerner, writer Katharine O'Brien, and producer Lacey Leavitt are scheduled to attend, so be prepared for some good discussion.
Monday 5/25
Vincent
3:30pm Uptown
An understated superhero movie – Vincent is a regular fellow who just happens to develop superhuman strength when he gets wet. People find out. Things get weird. Seems straightforward enough, but I have a few science questions - what happens when he takes a shower? Does sweat count as water? Who would win in an epic battle between Vincent and Aquaman? Hopefully all of these and more will be answered, and if not, director Thomas Salvador will be on hand to tackle them after the film.
H.
6:30pm Pacific Place
A pair of Helens from Troy (the New York one, not the Old Greek one) get a little batty when a meteor hits town. Everyone else goes a bit nuts, too, so it’s ok. I think? From a few descriptions, it seems that the film is calling up bits of the Iliad along with its focus on motherhood in various forms, and that brings to mind one of our modern classics -Kids in the Hall, season 1: “30 Helens Agree... There's a time and a place to show photos of your children!”
Tuesday 5/26
Diner
6:30pm The Egyptian
Diner
6:30pm The Egyptian
Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Paul
Reiser, Steve Guttenberg, Ellen Barkin, and Kevin Bacon. That’s all I should
have to say.
Footloose
9:30pm The Egyptian
More Kevin Bacon. All the Kevin Bacon! I keep forgetting that there are kids out there - out and walking around! - who haven’t seen this movie. The singin’ and dancin’ are plentiful and pretty, but what I truly appreciate about this movie is the depth of the characters. It’d be easy to pigeonhole all the types (and admittedly, some characters are more caricature), but the cast does a great job of being real teens and real parents, in a really conservative midwestern setting.
Footloose
9:30pm The Egyptian
More Kevin Bacon. All the Kevin Bacon! I keep forgetting that there are kids out there - out and walking around! - who haven’t seen this movie. The singin’ and dancin’ are plentiful and pretty, but what I truly appreciate about this movie is the depth of the characters. It’d be easy to pigeonhole all the types (and admittedly, some characters are more caricature), but the cast does a great job of being real teens and real parents, in a really conservative midwestern setting.
In the Grayscale
9:30pm Pacific Place
When midlife crisis turns into a tender love story, I’m all in.
Gentle
9:00pm Uptown
I was supposed to have read Dostoevsky’s 1876 novella “A Gentle Creature” for a book report in Senior High, but I never did. I faked my way through some kind of essay about the inflated value of imagined love. Or something.
There have been other film adaptations of this story, but so far none has really caught my eye as much as this one by Kiet Le-Van. It looks to be a haunting slow-burner.
9:30pm Pacific Place
When midlife crisis turns into a tender love story, I’m all in.
Gentle
9:00pm Uptown
I was supposed to have read Dostoevsky’s 1876 novella “A Gentle Creature” for a book report in Senior High, but I never did. I faked my way through some kind of essay about the inflated value of imagined love. Or something.
There have been other film adaptations of this story, but so far none has really caught my eye as much as this one by Kiet Le-Van. It looks to be a haunting slow-burner.
The Invisible Boy
7:00pm Pacific Place
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