By Hannah Waters, The Scientist Mad science has always fascinated the public, but that isn’t why Jim Fields, video producer and journalist for Time Magazine, decided to make the documentary, A: Head, B: Body, about White. “I’m intrigued more by him than anything he particularly [...]
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Movie Review: Adventures of Tintin
Blistering Barnacles! That iconic quiff has finally arrived on the big screen in The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. Tintin‘s creator Hergé stated before his death that ‘if anyone can bring Tintin successfully to the screen’, it would be Spielberg, and he has done exactly that, [...]
October 1st, 2011 - 12:18 am § in The Ave Scene
New Art Theater Opens in Seattle
Via Moira Macdonald at The Seattle Times: The Uptown Theater, one of Seattle’s oldest movie houses, is about to begin a new chapter. The Seattle International Film Festival announced Saturday night it has taken over the Queen Anne theater’s lease from the AMC chain, which had closed the [...]
April 7th, 2011 - 9:13 am § in Uncategorized
Potiche: A French farce with feeling
Judith Godreche, director Francois Ozon, Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini and Karin Viard pose at the premiere for Potiche. Photograph: Claudio Onorati/EPA Venice is this year becoming a festival notable for high drama and high camp, and so it proves again with this enjoyable, farcical French pict[...]
March 12th, 2011 - 2:26 am § in Uncategorized
Film Festivals
Seattle is the home of many film festivals … some of the most prominent are SIFF … Seattle International Film Festival. Children’s FimFest Three Day Dollar Bill Cinema Central Cinema Langston Hughes African American Film Festival [...]
March 5th, 2011 - 10:58 am § in Uncategorized
AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
**FRI – THURS MARCH 11-18, weekend showtimes 10:15 am, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45 pm, at the AMC Southcenter, 3600 Southcenter Mall Tukwila; The LANGSTON HUGHES AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL in a new collaborative venture called AFFRM- the African American Film Festival Releasing Movem[...]
March 2nd, 2011 - 3:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Dust & Illusions: Documentary explores 30 years of the Burning Man
Dust & Illusions explores 30 years of history of the Burning Man event. Born in the underground of San Francisco in the 1980s, the festival became the largest counter- cultural event in North America. It is unique in that it is created by the people who come to the event, the participants, not t[...]
February 27th, 2011 - 7:05 am § in Misc.
Film: Great Documentary About Soviet Era Cartoons
from critique by George Heymnt Like the best political cartoonists, Efimov mocked authority in the Russian press during a lengthy career that spanned most of the 20th century. He was lampooning events during World War II as well as during the Cold War. Although his cartoon work for Russia’s st[...]