Double Reading

I hate to be all gossipy and stuff, but I cannot resist posting this note that is taped to the door on the guy who lives in the apartment next to mine. It reads: If I didn’t buzz you in via the front entrance you will not get in this door. I don’t care how [...]

Finally!!! 2046 is opening in Seattle on August 26 and playing at the Harvard Exit Theatre. I must say, that of all the Landmark Theatres in Seattle, the Harvard Exit is the best for foreign films because the seats are sloped enough so that people’s heads are not in the way and you can actually [...]

On Sunday afternoon, when it was sunny and in the 80s in Seattle (during a relatively cold and rainy summer), I went to a lecture by Robert Horton, the curator of The Frye Art Gallery‘s The Magic Lantern “talks on film and art” series. I mentioned the talk the other day and gave some excerpts [...]

On Sunday, July 17 at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle there is going to be a lecture about “assemblege” and the films of Wong Kar-Wai. From the FRYE film calendar: Wong Kar-wai: Assembling Pieces of Time Related exhibition ~ Oliver Herring: Taking and Making Sunday, July 17, 2 pm Free passes available at the [...]

Last year I was a bad Seattle-ite and didn’t get around to going to any of the Seattle International Film Festival showings. I tried going to see The Corporation, but I didn’t understand the whole pass/buy-your-ticket-in-advance concept back then and I ended up not seeing it when I wanted. But that was last year. And [...]

SIFF has this year’s schedule up, so everyone in Seattle should go see Wong Kar-Wai‘s 2046. I’m not sure which version this will be. The one that played at Cannes last year has apparently been edited a bit to make it make more sense. The version I got from Netflix lists the running time at [...]