SIFF Films playing August 8 thru 14
Six past SIFF films return to Seattle this week including the Closing Night Gala Film, the #5 Most Liked Doc and the #12 Most Liked Feature! Yea!
SIFF 2008's #5 Most Liked Documentary Man on a Wire returns to Seattle this week as well as the #12 Most Liked Feature Film Boy A. Bottle Shock, the SIFF 2008 Closing Night Gala Film is being uncorked this week as well.
Also this week, SIFF Cinema begins it's 3-week long retrospective of French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s work, starting with Contempt which plays all week long. Support your SIFF Cinema and see it! :-)
Don't forget Saturday morning 10AM SIFF Cinema will be showing Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden at SIFF Cinema (10AM Saturday ONLY) part of the Films4Families program.
So...what are the other gems being screened in Seattle this week? Well....the rarest of all screenings this week is a 35mm screening of director Orson Welles Chimes at Midnight (RARE ALERT: NOT ON DVD) at the NWFF (7PM Fri, Sat & Sun ONLY). Also getting rare 35mm screenings in town are George Stevens' screwball comedy The More the Merrier at the Seattle Art Museum on Thursday night 7:30PM ONLY, Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru at the Metro on Wednesday night 7PM ONLY and Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning at the Seattle Art Musuem Friday (tonight) ONLY at 7:30PM.
There are a total of five return arrivals of SIFF 2008 films this week: Man on a Wire, Bottle Shock, Elegy, Baghead, Boy A plus a SIFF 2007 doc Monster Camp.
BARGAIN OF THE WEEK:
$5 tickets for SIFF supporters at SIFF Cinema 8pm Tuesday night ONLY for Contempt
SIFF 2008 MOVIES SCREENING THIS WEEK (August 8 thru 14):
Boy A - Varsity
2.26 FOOLs Likeability rating (#12 Most Liked Feature Film!)
Man on a Wire - Egyptian
2.19 FOOLs Likeability rating (#5 Most Liked Documentary!)
Kung Fu Panda - Meridian
2.00 FOOLs Likeability rating (#15 Most Liked Feature Film!)
Elegy - Seven Gables
1.79 FOOLs Likeability rating
Encounters at the End of the World - Crest
1.52 FOOLs Likeability rating
Bottle Shock - Guild 45th, Meridian
1.44 FOOLs Likeability rating
American Teen - Guild 45th, Pacific Place
1.30 FOOLs Likeability rating
Chris & Don: A Love Story - Varsity
1.21 FOOLs Likeability rating
Mongol - Varsity
1.08 FOOLs Likeability rating
Baghead - Varsity
-0.62 FOOLs Likeability rating
FILMS FROM SIFF's PAST.......
Tell No One - Harvard Exit, Redmond Big Picture
2.06 FOOLs Likeability rating from SIFF 2007
(#7 Most Liked Feature Film!)
Monster Camp - Grand Illusion
From SIFF 2007
NON-SIFF CINEMATIC TREATS.....
Chimes at Midnight - NWFF (7PM Fri, Sat & Sun ONLY)
Vintage Orson Welles in 35mm. Cinematic nirvana. NOT ON DVD!
The More the Merrier - Seattle Art Museum (Thursday night ONLY)
George Stevens screwball comedy with Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea
Boudu Saved from Drowning - Seattle Art Museum (Friday night ONLY)
Classic French film starts a four week Jean Renoir retrospective at SAM
Ikiru - Metro (Wednesday 7pm & 9:15pm ONLY)
Akira Kurosawa's classic shown in 35mm. Yea!
Coming Home - NWFF (Tues & Weds ONLY)
Jon Voight and Jane Fonda took home Oscars for this hard hitting drama
The Goonies - Egyptian (Fri & Sat MIDNIGHT ONLY)
Josh Brolin visited SIFF Cinema on Halloween 2007. See him way back when.
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