A conversation with Seattle
Sure, Valentine’s Day is just a memorial to a few brutally-executed Catholic martyrs that’s morphed into a cash-grab by candy … Continue reading Support Your Local Indie Movie Houses This Valentine’s Weekend
Kevin Spitzer, owner of the Central District entertainment mainstay Central Cinema, is counting the days until April 7. That’s when he is supposed to hear back from the Washington State Liquor Control Board about the legality of Central Cinema staying open and operating as it has since 2005. Continue reading Central Cinema to Liquor Control Board: Seriously, It’s Cool, We Got This
Happily, three local theaters are offering prime cuts of bizarre cinema this weekend, and if you’re in the mood for a strange cinematic cocktail during these summer days, seek the enclosed recommendations out.
One of these theaters, amazingly enough, is AMC’s Pacific Place Cinema in the heart of downtown Seattle. Continue reading Gallows Giggles, Exploitation, and Old-School Horror at Local Theaters This Weekend
The Rules of the Game is one of those rare vaunted Greatest Films in Cinema History that deserves its rep, richly. During its original release, it roused the undisguised contempt of the French upper class for its scalpel-sharp dissection of that strata’s lack of conscience. Critics at the time panned it, and the movie’s original negative was destroyed entirely during a World War II Allied bombing run (thankfully the movie received a painstaking restoration from surviving prints, to its full length with Renoir’s blessing in the late 1950s). But like a lot of misunderstood-at-the-time films, The Rules of the Game plays more resonantly now than ever.
Continue reading Renoir and Errol Flynn: Cinema Essentials at the Grand Illusion and Central Cinema