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Friday, August 17, 2007

This Weekend at the Movies

posted by on August 17 at 14:56 PM

First, some news:

The physics in movies is all wrong. But you have to read German and have access to scholarly journals to find out the details. (Via ars technica; thanks, Josh.)

Fall calendars are out—or at least leaked—at all the the area independents. Here’s Northwest Film Forum (highlights include a mumblecore* series to complement the Seattle premiere of Hannah Takes the Stairs, Brand Upon the Brain [! the whole hog production I’ve been agitating for, at Cinerama, probably with some extra special guests that have yet to be announced], a Shohei Imamura series, an evening with James Benning, and lots more). Grand Illusion has a terrible website, but in addition to the new Kim Ki-Duk you can see there coming up next week, they’ve also got a “Psychedelic Summer” series starting Sept 7 featuring 16mm films made between 1966 and 1972 (thanks to a recent NWFF series, I’m most looking forward to the National Film Board of Canada production No Reason to Stay); starting Sept 14, Autism: The Musical; and starting Sept 17, The Gates. Down at SIFF Cinema, be on the lookout for Charles Burnett’s My Brother’s Wedding, the 1957 gossip-columnist noir Sweet Smell of Success, and a whole month of the distributor Kino’s eclectic back catalogue.

This Week’s New Releases:

In On Screen this week: the super-good Superbad; a “light comedy” by Lars von Trier entitled The Boss of It All; the truly execrable British farce Death at a Funeral; the awesome local doc The King of Quarters (see today’s Suggests, below); and a new film by the oldest working director in all of cinema: Belle Toujours.

The Boss of It All


Plus, Brendan Kiley has an amusing review of the Nicole Kidman/Daniel Craig vehicle The Invasion (it’s bad).

Film Shorts this week can be found at Get Out. Enjoy!

* For more about mumblecore, see this Greencine entry on Hannah Takes the Stairs.

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Annie, I love that you can compose such an HTML-rich post with all the proper italics, bolds, and font variants.

Now get in that "On Screen" and change that dude's name to Friğrik Şór Friğriksson. It's just that the opportunities to use the eth and thorn arise so infrequently!

Posted by Nick | August 17, 2007 3:07 PM
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I'm not allowed to edit web content anymore, but feel free to submit your grievance to copy chief Amy Kate.

Posted by annie | August 17, 2007 3:14 PM
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Awwww!

Posted by Mr. Poe | August 17, 2007 3:19 PM
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I was just kidding, but I'm going to ask Amy Kate, just for fun.

Posted by Nick | August 17, 2007 3:19 PM
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These scientists claiming movie physics dumb people down are drawing really erroneous conclusions. Do people believe some retarded stuff they see in movies? Yes. But when parents and teachers fail to educate kids properly, any old junk that falls in front of their eyes will fill in the gaps. Singling out movies is silly. May as well single out paperback western novels from the 20th century for deluding people about history. Nevermind the curriculum going "Rah rah Manifest Destiny!"
By that study's reasoning, Chinese people into Wuxia movies should be drowning all the time because they think they can run on water. Educated idjits.
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Posted by christopher | August 17, 2007 3:20 PM
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Did you get my e-mail Annie?!?!! It took me like seven hours to write. Surely you will not crush me heart, ja?!

Posted by Mr. Poe | August 17, 2007 3:55 PM
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Seriously: more people should try to learn German. It's got a bad rap as a "hard" language, but it's not *that* bad, and it's very worthwhile. Go enroll today.

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