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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Thursday, March 12, 2015
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Cinema Italian Style 2014 was a quiet past year for new Italian movies; the well-reviewed Human Capital, which arrives here in February, didn’t even make the Oscar short list. So maybe it’s time for a repertory glance back at past peninsular glories with this nine-film series, running most Thursdays through March 19. In addition to proven classics like Luchino Visconti’s 1963 The Leopard, it includes new additions to the canon-notably last year’s Oscar winner, The Great Beauty. Beginning the retrospective tonight is Ossessione, Visconti’s 1943 adaptation of the James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, with its timeless themes of adultery and murder. That noir tale was filmed here in 1946 and ‘81, and there’s even a French take from 1939, but Visconti’s version-his first feature-wasn’t seen for decades in the U.S. because he didn’t clear the copyright. (Whether he had Cain’s verbal permission is another matter.) Only in 1977 did it get a stateside release, when critics noted a far more class-conscious treatment than the 1946 Lana Turner-John Garfield version: neorealism layered atop the noir. And another fun fact: This 35 mm print belongs to Martin Scorsese, that champion of film preservation and Italian cinema. BRIAN MILLER Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $63-$68 series, $8 individual Thursday, March 12, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
Ballet 422 This new documentary goes backstage at New York City Ballet, following choreographer Justin Peck. Sundance Cinemas, 4500 Ninth Ave. N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 See website for details. Friday, March 13, 2015
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Big-Screen Hitchcock Apart from Liam Neeson’s Run All Night, there aren’t any real crime flicks opening this weekend. Now Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) always insisted he made thrillers, not vulgar shoot-’em-ups, the best of them infused with mordant wit, sex appeal, and postwar sophistication. But beneath those thrills there must be a crime, whether already committed, coming soon, or being covered up. (It’s that latter point, the concealment of guilt, that so appealed to the Catholic-raised Hitchcock, master of the bad conscience.) So in this five-film weekend retrospective, the misdeeds include adultery, murder, robbery, trespassing on a national monument, blackmail, identity theft, serial killing, cross-dressing (well, nothing wrong with that these days), the irresponsible use of a crop-duster, and human taxidermy. I’ll leave it to you to sort out the various wrongs among Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Dial M for Murder. Tonight the mini-fest begins with the elaborate ruse and mind-fuck that is Vertigo, in which Jimmy Stewart’s San Francisco cop falls for Kim Novak’s femme fatale (twice, no less); followed by the black-and-white shocker Psycho, with the famous shower scene, Anthony Perkins in drag, and a swamp full of victims unlucky enough to have checked into the Bates Motel. (Through Sun.) 6:30 & 9:30 p.m. BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 $7-$12 Friday, March 13, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Friday, March 13, 2015
Cinderella It’s time for the servant stepdaughter to get her live-action Hollywood treatment. Lily James stars, surrounded by talents like Cate Blanchett, Stellan Skarsgård, Helena Bonham Carter, and the latter’s ex, Kenneth Branagh, who directs. Various locations, See website for details. Friday, March 13, 2015
Run All Night Liam Neeson is now a protective father and hitman who must face his former boss in order to protect his family. Didn’t we just see that movie? Various locations, See website for details. Friday, March 13, 2015, 3 – 4pm
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Big-Screen Hitchcock Apart from Liam Neeson’s Run All Night, there aren’t any real crime flicks opening this weekend. Now Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) always insisted he made thrillers, not vulgar shoot-’em-ups, the best of them infused with mordant wit, sex appeal, and postwar sophistication. But beneath those thrills there must be a crime, whether already committed, coming soon, or being covered up. (It’s that latter point, the concealment of guilt, that so appealed to the Catholic-raised Hitchcock, master of the bad conscience.) So in this five-film weekend retrospective, the misdeeds include adultery, murder, robbery, trespassing on a national monument, blackmail, identity theft, serial killing, cross-dressing (well, nothing wrong with that these days), the irresponsible use of a crop-duster, and human taxidermy. I’ll leave it to you to sort out the various wrongs among Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Dial M for Murder. Tonight the mini-fest begins with the elaborate ruse and mind-fuck that is Vertigo, in which Jimmy Stewart’s San Francisco cop falls for Kim Novak’s femme fatale (twice, no less); followed by the black-and-white shocker Psycho, with the famous shower scene, Anthony Perkins in drag, and a swamp full of victims unlucky enough to have checked into the Bates Motel. (Through Sun.) 6:30 & 9:30 p.m. BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 $7-$12 Saturday, March 14, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Saturday, March 14, 2015
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival The film festival celebrates its 20th year. Opening night features Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli coproduction. Other notable films featured include, Mr. Kaplan, Summer Vacation, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Write Down, I’m an Arab. Venues also include SIFF Cinema Uptown and SJCC-Mercer Island. AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine StreetSeattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Saturday, March 14, 2015
Maria Tallchief A documentary about the life and art of the ballet great. Northwest Film Forum Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $11 Saturday, March 14, 2015, 6pm
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Saturday, March 14, 2015, 7:30pm
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Big-Screen Hitchcock Apart from Liam Neeson’s Run All Night, there aren’t any real crime flicks opening this weekend. Now Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) always insisted he made thrillers, not vulgar shoot-’em-ups, the best of them infused with mordant wit, sex appeal, and postwar sophistication. But beneath those thrills there must be a crime, whether already committed, coming soon, or being covered up. (It’s that latter point, the concealment of guilt, that so appealed to the Catholic-raised Hitchcock, master of the bad conscience.) So in this five-film weekend retrospective, the misdeeds include adultery, murder, robbery, trespassing on a national monument, blackmail, identity theft, serial killing, cross-dressing (well, nothing wrong with that these days), the irresponsible use of a crop-duster, and human taxidermy. I’ll leave it to you to sort out the various wrongs among Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Dial M for Murder. Tonight the mini-fest begins with the elaborate ruse and mind-fuck that is Vertigo, in which Jimmy Stewart’s San Francisco cop falls for Kim Novak’s femme fatale (twice, no less); followed by the black-and-white shocker Psycho, with the famous shower scene, Anthony Perkins in drag, and a swamp full of victims unlucky enough to have checked into the Bates Motel. (Through Sun.) 6:30 & 9:30 p.m. BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 $7-$12 Sunday, March 15, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Sunday, March 15, 2015
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival The film festival celebrates its 20th year. Opening night features Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli coproduction. Other notable films featured include, Mr. Kaplan, Summer Vacation, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Write Down, I’m an Arab. Venues also include SIFF Cinema Uptown and SJCC-Mercer Island. AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine StreetSeattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Sunday, March 15, 2015
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Sunday, March 15, 2015, 7:30pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Monday, March 16, 2015
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival The film festival celebrates its 20th year. Opening night features Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli coproduction. Other notable films featured include, Mr. Kaplan, Summer Vacation, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Write Down, I’m an Arab. Venues also include SIFF Cinema Uptown and SJCC-Mercer Island. AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine StreetSeattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Monday, March 16, 2015
Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday) A 1930 silent German documentary following a day in the life of a group of young Berliners (before Hitler came to power), with live organ accompaniment. Billy Wilder was among the creators of the unique anthology project. The Paramount, 911 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101 $10 Monday, March 16, 2015, 7pm
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Mr. Turner Now I have no objection to Emmanuel Lubezki having won the Oscar-his second in a row, after Gravity-for his amazing and seemingly seamless lens work in Birdman. Yet I was rooting for English cinematographer Dick Pope, who took the opposite approach in filming Mike Leigh’s gorgeous biopic about the painter J.M.W. Turner. The grouchy, selfish, yet charismatic artist (1775-1851) saw the world from a mostly static perspective, as Pope frames it. Turner (played by Timothy Spall) visits various corners of Europe with his sketchbook; he spends hours at the easel back in his London studio; and his buyers have the expectation of displaying his landscape and maritime scenes in grand rooms where visitors will admire them for decades to come. There’s no rush or bustle to this process (unlike the frantic backstage players in Birdman), which is why Leigh and Pope often pause their film’s action for us to see 19th-century views as Turner did: lambent light on a Flemish canal, the sun filtered through harbor mist and sails, locomotive steam bursting into a halo above the green countryside, and-this shot made me gasp-The Fighting Temeraire, a famous battleship being towed up the Thames to be rendered as scrap. That latter image is something of an art-history joke, since we’re seeing Turner’s famous 1839 painting come to life. It’s gorgeous trickery, not unlike Birdman, since the warship’s a digital creation. Though Pope’s of a different century and medium than Turner, he’s an artist who also hides his impeccable technique. BRIAN MILLER SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St. (Seattle Center), Seattle, WA 98109 $7-$12 Monday, March 16, 2015, 7pm
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Monday, March 16, 2015, 7:30pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival The film festival celebrates its 20th year. Opening night features Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli coproduction. Other notable films featured include, Mr. Kaplan, Summer Vacation, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Write Down, I’m an Arab. Venues also include SIFF Cinema Uptown and SJCC-Mercer Island. AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine StreetSeattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 7:30pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Wednesday, March 18, 2015
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival The film festival celebrates its 20th year. Opening night features Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli coproduction. Other notable films featured include, Mr. Kaplan, Summer Vacation, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Write Down, I’m an Arab. Venues also include SIFF Cinema Uptown and SJCC-Mercer Island. AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine StreetSeattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 7:30pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Thursday, March 19, 2015
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival The film festival celebrates its 20th year. Opening night features Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli coproduction. Other notable films featured include, Mr. Kaplan, Summer Vacation, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Write Down, I’m an Arab. Venues also include SIFF Cinema Uptown and SJCC-Mercer Island. AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine StreetSeattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Thursday, March 19, 2015
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Cinema Italian Style 2014 was a quiet past year for new Italian movies; the well-reviewed Human Capital, which arrives here in February, didn’t even make the Oscar short list. So maybe it’s time for a repertory glance back at past peninsular glories with this nine-film series, running most Thursdays through March 19. In addition to proven classics like Luchino Visconti’s 1963 The Leopard, it includes new additions to the canon-notably last year’s Oscar winner, The Great Beauty. Beginning the retrospective tonight is Ossessione, Visconti’s 1943 adaptation of the James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, with its timeless themes of adultery and murder. That noir tale was filmed here in 1946 and ‘81, and there’s even a French take from 1939, but Visconti’s version-his first feature-wasn’t seen for decades in the U.S. because he didn’t clear the copyright. (Whether he had Cain’s verbal permission is another matter.) Only in 1977 did it get a stateside release, when critics noted a far more class-conscious treatment than the 1946 Lana Turner-John Garfield version: neorealism layered atop the noir. And another fun fact: This 35 mm print belongs to Martin Scorsese, that champion of film preservation and Italian cinema. BRIAN MILLER Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $63-$68 series, $8 individual Thursday, March 19, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30pm
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Thursday, March 19, 2015, 7:30pm
The King and the Mockingbird A French animated film, based on a Hans Christian Anderson story, that inspired Hayao Miyazaki. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $11 Thursday, March 19, 2015, 8pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Friday, March 20, 2015
Insurgent Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort return in this highly anticipated sequel to Divergent. Opens wide $14 and up Friday, March 20, 2015
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival The film festival celebrates its 20th year. Opening night features Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli coproduction. Other notable films featured include, Mr. Kaplan, Summer Vacation, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Write Down, I’m an Arab. Venues also include SIFF Cinema Uptown and SJCC-Mercer Island. AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine StreetSeattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Friday, March 20, 2015
The Gunman Suffering from PTSD and on the run across Europe to clear his name, an ex-soldier is trying to reconnect with his longtime love. With Idris Elba, Sean Penn, and Javier Bardem… but who stars? Opens wide. $14 and up Friday, March 20, 2015
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Friday, March 20, 2015, 7:30pm
The King and the Mockingbird A French animated film, based on a Hans Christian Anderson story, that inspired Hayao Miyazaki. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $11 Friday, March 20, 2015, 8pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Saturday, March 21, 2015
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival The film festival celebrates its 20th year. Opening night features Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli coproduction. Other notable films featured include, Mr. Kaplan, Summer Vacation, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Write Down, I’m an Arab. Venues also include SIFF Cinema Uptown and SJCC-Mercer Island. AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine StreetSeattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Saturday, March 21, 2015
The King and the Mockingbird A French animated film, based on a Hans Christian Anderson story, that inspired Hayao Miyazaki. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $11 Saturday, March 21, 2015, 3pm
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Saturday, March 21, 2015, 7:30pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Sunday, March 22, 2015
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival The film festival celebrates its 20th year. Opening night features Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli coproduction. Other notable films featured include, Mr. Kaplan, Summer Vacation, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Write Down, I’m an Arab. Venues also include SIFF Cinema Uptown and SJCC-Mercer Island. AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine StreetSeattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Sunday, March 22, 2015
The King and the Mockingbird A French animated film, based on a Hans Christian Anderson story, that inspired Hayao Miyazaki. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $11 Sunday, March 22, 2015, 3pm
Seattle Jewish Film Festival More than 30 titles are screened, along with related cultural events. Opening night is Hanna’s Journey, a German-Israeli rom-com about millennials from those two nations falling in love. Pacific Place and other venues. $12 and up Sunday, March 22, 2015, 7:30pm
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Monday, March 23, 2015
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Blowing up Cinema Five films from Italian great Michelangelo Antonioni, co-presented by Northwest Film Forum: Blow-Up, La Notte, L’eclisse, Red Desert, and The Passenger. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 See website for details. Tuesday, March 24, 2015
A Little Chaos Alan Rickman directs himself and Kate Winslet in this period drama, set in the gardens of Versailles, overseen by King Louis XIV (Rickman). We’re sold. Theaters TBD $12 and up Friday, March 27, 2015
Get Hard Will Ferrell gets nailed for fraud and calls on Kevin Hart to prep him for life in jail. Opens wide $12 and up Friday, March 27, 2015
Home Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, and Jennifer Lopez lend their voices to this animated children’s film. Opens wide $12 and up Friday, March 27, 2015
Serena Everyone’s favorite onscreen couple, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, are together again in this Depression-era film, long delayed after its filming by director Susanne Bier (Open Hearts). Guild 45th, landmarktheatres.com Guild 45th, 2115 N. 45th St., Seattle, WA, 98103 $10 and up Friday, March 27, 2015
Emerald City Comicon Get out your Lumpy Space Princess costume because you won’t want to miss this year’s celebrity guests, including John Barrowman, Julie Benz, LeVar Burton, Charisma Carpenter, and Stan Lee. emeraldcitycomicon.com Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Pl., Seattle, WA 98101 $35 Friday, March 27, 2015, 10am – 7pm
Emerald City Comicon Get out your Lumpy Space Princess costume because you won’t want to miss this year’s celebrity guests, including John Barrowman, Julie Benz, LeVar Burton, Charisma Carpenter, and Stan Lee. emeraldcitycomicon.com Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Pl., Seattle, WA 98101 $45 Saturday, March 28, 2015, 10am – 7pm
Films for One to Eight Projectors Experimental cinema from Roger Beebe. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $11 Saturday, March 28, 2015, 5pm
Emerald City Comicon Get out your Lumpy Space Princess costume because you won’t want to miss this year’s celebrity guests, including John Barrowman, Julie Benz, LeVar Burton, Charisma Carpenter, and Stan Lee. emeraldcitycomicon.com Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Pl., Seattle, WA 98101 $35 Sunday, March 29, 2015, 10am – 5pm
Sabbatical A professor comes back to his hometown after his mom has a stroke. Director Brandon Colvin will be in attendance. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $11 Sunday, March 29, 2015, 6pm
