Film
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Fiddler on the Roof Sing-Along Brunch There is no better Christmas Day combo, so far as Jews, atheists, and Wiccans are concerned, than movies and Chinese food. So again SIFF is programming a buffet/matinee screening of Norman Jewison’s 1971 adaptation of the famous Broadway show, with songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, to which you are encouraged to add your own voice. (Those include “Tradition,” “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” etc., layered atop Sholem Aleichem’s stories of shtetl life in Czarist Russia.) Topol stars as Tevye, a man with five daughters to marry off, which ought to put your own family pressures in perspective during the holiday season. Before the screening there will be kosher Chinese food served from Leah’s Gourmet Kosher Foods, with live music performed in the lobby by Orkestyr Farfeleh (playing tunes from the movie, no less). Fiddler is three hours long, so it includes an intermission for more noshing. And why not make a day of it, since parking is free? SIFF is also playing another musical, Into the Woods, at 5:15 p.m. with Wild following at 8:30 p.m. It’ll be a cinematic trinity if you see all three. (Noon brunch, 1 p.m. screening.) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 $20-$25 Thursday, December 25, 2014, 12 – 1pm
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Friday, December 26, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Saturday, December 27, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Sunday, December 28, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Monday, December 29, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
