Last night was late spring at its best. Biking through the just-warm-enough air from Madison Park up and over Capitol Hill, I hit my favorite dinner destination: Sushi Maki, on Bellevue Ave.
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PubliCalendar Apology, Addendum
We apologize for leaving tomorrow’s immigration reform rally out of today’s PubliCalender. It’s at Occidental Park tomorrow at noon. Details here. And David Goldstein at HorsesAss hypes it here. Mayor Mike McGinn and U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott are scheduled to speak and Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell will address the rally via video. It’s [...]
More »Saturday, March 13, 2010
Alexandra Bush
A Sympathetic Murderer
Every once in a while, you come across a film that has everything: Compelling character study, gripping drama, incisive social critique. French director Jacques Audiard’s Oscar-nominated (now Oscar-robbed, some have argued) A Prophet is that kind of film. Set in a contemporary French prison, A Prophet follows Malik El-Djebena (newcomer Tahar Rahim) through a six-year sentence [...]
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Do This Tonight: Oscar-Nominated Shorts at the Varsity
Going into the Oscars, almost nobody (including me) has ever seen the short films. And, after the awards ceremony, most people quickly forget them. Landmark Varsity is giving us a chance to remedy that this weekend, showing both the live-action and the animated 2010 Oscar-nominated shorts.
More »Friday, March 12, 2010
Alexandra Bush
Agree/Disagree
This week, I Totally Agree with A.O. Scott’s perceptive review of The Exploding Girl. When I first saw this film at SIFF last year, I was disappointed, even though it’s the kind of movie I generally like: restrained, contemplative, open-ended, with dreamy cinematography. For reasons I couldn’t pinpoint, though, I left bored and annoyed.
More »Monday, March 8, 2010
Alexandra Bush
Local Filmmaker Lynn Shelton Wins Trophy of Her Own
It was a big weekend for women directors who tackle subjects normally reserved for their male counterparts. The big story, of course, is about Kathryn Bigelow, who last night became the first woman ever to take home the Best Directing Oscar for the independent war drama The Hurt Locker. Bigelow, who rose to prominence with [...]
More »Saturday, March 6, 2010
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Tonight at NWFF: ByDesign
The Northwest Film Forum’s 10th annual ByDesign festival opened last night, and will run all week. Curated by designer and associate programmer Peter Lucas, the ByDesign fest takes a week every year to celebrate the intersection of design and film. Tonight, the brilliant Tania Kupczak will moderate a discussion between local animators and motion designers [...]
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Alexandra Bush
Movies: Agree/Disagree
This week, I Totally Agree with the hilarious frivolity of Slate’s Oscar coverage. Usually by this point, I can’t wait for the Oscars to be over, so I can hear about something else, but reading Dana Stevens’ and Troy Patterson’s emails to each other about, among other things, an axed Sacha Baron Cohen sketch that [...]
More »Thursday, March 4, 2010
Alexandra Bush
Haunted by the Same Ghost
“[My brother] Marc would have given anything to be the man I’d have given anything not to be,” says Kimberly Reed, director and narrator of the autobiographical documentary Prodigal Sons. “We were both haunted by the same ghost.” Two years after telling her family about her male-to-female transition, Reed has returned to her hometown of [...]
More »Saturday, February 27, 2010
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Gives Me the Creeps for Days
Recommended viewing for the weekend: The Seattle premiere of the Red Riding trilogy over at Northwest Film Forum. Released as a television miniseries in England, this three-part adaptation of novels about the Yorkshire Ripper—a serial killer who ravaged northern England for ten years in the ’70s and ’80s—has been well-received for its performances and its [...]
More »Thursday, February 25, 2010
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Too Angry and Desperate to Be Afraid
There aren’t very many movies about adolescence that get it right. Fish Tank does. It’s about desperation, powerlessness, frustration, naivete, heartbreak, painful awkwardness, and sexual and emotional vulnerability. Living in the British projects with a careless and abusive mother, Mia (Katie Jarvis) is an enraged teen who takes a liking to her mother’s new boyfriend [...]
More »Monday, February 22, 2010
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Otherwise Rarely-Screened Films
I’ve recently become aware of a neat resource for independent film geeks: IndieFlix. IndiFlix, based in Madison Park, is a distribution company for independent films that utilizes online streaming, DVD sales, and free community screenings to increase audiences and business for little guy movies. Movies must have screened as an official selection at a film [...]
More »Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Wings of Desire at Central Cinema
Anybody who’s been following me on PubliCola for a while will know that I’m a huge fan of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire. It’s one of the best portraits of a city ever to hit the silver screen (see my review of it from last March here). I can’t let a screening go by without [...]
More »Friday, February 12, 2010
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Agree/Disagree: FlowTV vs. A.O. Scott
Welcome to this week’s “Totally Agree” and “Totally Disagree.” This week, I Totally Agree with this brainy piece of criticism over at the new-to-me online media magazine FlowTV. Authors Michael Peterson, Laurie Beth Clark, and Lisa Nakamura dissect Avatar’s relationship with gender and disability, which have largely been ignored in favor of attention to the film’s relationship with [...]
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A Deliciously Dramatic End
If you have any interest in film, ballet, great character study, classic drama, or what Technicolor was really good for, do yourself a favor this week and go see The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger, UK, 1948) at the Northwest Film Forum. This landmark film about a maniacally driven ballet director Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) [...]
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