NWFF Gives You Regina Spektor's "Live in London" and a Bees' Knees Doc

Regina Spektor's Live in London concert movie gets screened in just 15 U.S. cities this weekend, and the Northwest Film Forum is the Seattle venue, with just one showing on Sunday at 8 p.m. It's just $5, so if you missed her Paramount show--All night, between songs, it had been "Regina, I love you!", "Regina, I love you more than that first girl!", and a baritone howl of "Regina, I want to have your babies!" Spektor, in contrast, traveled imperturbably from song to song, though the "babies" brought her up short. "All tour," she said, "it's been babies. I guess...thanks?"--you can make up for lost time. The live album hits on November 22. Consequence of Sound has the track lists.

Regina Spektor's "Dance Anthem of the '80s" from "Live in London" from Consequence of Sound on Vimeo.

The buzz (Oh, hell yes! We will go there!) is also good for a documentary called Colony, which opens tonight at NWFF and runs through next Thursday. It's a Colony Collapse Disorder film, but there's more to it than that:

Colony documents a time of unprecedented crisis in the world of the honeybee through the eyes of both veteran beekeeper, David Mendes, and Lance and Victor Seppi, two young brothers getting into beekeeping when most are getting out. As Mendes tries to save the nation's collapsing hives, the Seppi's try to keep their business alive amidst a collapsing economy.

Seattle PostGlobe says, "The film makes a  recurring analogy between  the colony mentality of the bee world versus the chaotic self-interest of  human society," while the Seattle Times says the film finds "beauty in every frame: a close-up of a bee, scratching its face as if pondering; a hive caught in sunlight, each bee seemingly lit from within; a white-blossomed grove of almond trees under a vibrant sky."

COLONY TEASER 2 from Colony Movie on Vimeo.