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Thursday, July 20, 2006

And if you haven’t seen Police Beat yet

Posted by on July 20 at 12:56 PM

GET ON IT. It’s a great date movie. It’s a terrific movie to see with a friend. It even satisfies the sketchy we-kinda-dated-but-now-we’re-kinda-friends gray area of movie watching.

And thanks to its already immense popularity, the Varsity is extending its run until July 27, so you have another week to catch it.

See it because Police Beat is set in Seattle, so you can point and coo during the whole goddamn thing (and its blessedly free from trite shots of the space needle and the Fremont Troll).
And because the story is beautiful and engaging, and because you will swear that half the extras are your neighbors, and you will secretly think that they have gained weight, but maybe that’s what they get for letting their dog always shit on your front lawn.

If that isn’t reason enough for you, from the press release:

POLICE BEAT, “the undiscovered masterpiece of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival”, is both a strikingly poetic examination of displacement and a gently surreal compendium of criminal behavior. Z, a young Senegalese and Muslim man, experiences his adopted city of Seattle through his job as a bicycle cop, leading him to encounters with all manner of strange and troubled people. Z himself, however, is less concerned with his job than with the possibility that his American girlfriend may be cheating on him while on a camping trip with a male friend.

Varsity Theatre, 4329 University Way NE, Seattle, 206.781.5755.

Showtimes for POLICE BEAT at the Varsity Theatre for the week of July
21- 27
Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10
Monday 9:10 only
Tue-Thur 7:10, 9:10

Also: I advise you to bring a tubful of fresh raspberries and sneak them into the theater. Share them with your partner/friend/awkward other. Raspberries were made for poetic crime movies like sex was made for rocking chairs.


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Cienna’s right on about this movie. I saw it yesterday during a we-kinda-dated-but-now-we’re-kinda-friends situation.

We both walked away happy to have seen a great movie and had enough conversation fodder for the awkward walk to the car/bus stop.

What? Sex? Rocking chairs? That's a new one to me.

Well worth seeing, though the video projection is a bit distracting -- I'm sure the visuals would be much more striking in 35MM.

A bit distracting? The video projection is awful. It looks like a homemade DVD projected up there. And, strangely, a big chunk of the left part of the frame is cut off.

Save your money for when they get a distributor (and a print) or rent it on video.

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