Media New in the Seattle Weekly Film Section: Showtimes in NYC for the Week of July 21
posted by on November 29 at 13:19 PM
I’ve resisted pointing out, so far, that every movie review in the Seattle Weekly is now written in New York. (Erstwhile film editor Brian Miller is still about, but now he’s writing Northwesterly prose about “the mud puckering beneath my feet on the shoreline trail” for the news section.) They’re also being assigned at 200 words or fewer, which is kind of impressive.
But this week? Whoever’s in charge of the film section now (it isn’t made clear on the masthead) imported a Village Voice review by Drew Tillman complete with showtimes for its New York premiere at the IFC Center in July:
Making its debut as a midnight movie, The Beales of Grey Gardens is essentially leftovers: footage from the original shoot that, not surprisingly, offers more of the same and lacks the first film’s sense of revelation.
In Seattle, Grey Gardens is making its debut as a regular old movie, Friday-Sun 7 and 9 pm at Northwest Film Forum.
The only ways to fix the problem is to either have the Village Voice writers write more for a national audience or for Weekly editors to read the stuff that they're forced to print.
My bad, yo.
Almost not worth wasting the effort to point out what a piece-of-crap Little Nickel-esque rag SW has turned into over the last year (apologies to the Little Nickel).
Outsourcing is NEVER good. Especially when you diss the NW Film Forum!
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THIS IS NEWS???? OR EVEN NEWSWORTHY??????
OBSESSED WITH THE NEW/OLD WEEKLY, ME THINKS.
Me thinks?
Theirfour me am?
Too bad - Brian Miller was one of the last reasons to pick up the Weekly (besides "Ask An Uptight Seattleite")
Also a problem to be hysterically addressed: every exciting new thing in Seattle has been over for months everywhere else.
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