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> Dir: Robert Arldrich
> 1964 / B & W / 132 min. / 16mm
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Best Bette
Fasten Your Seat Belts:
Bette Davis Turns 100!
Sponsored by Scarecrow Video and 3-Dollar Bill Cinema
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| Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) has been closeted in her mansion since the grisly murder of her married lover many years earlier. When the county wants to tear down the house to build a highway, the spinster’s relatives and friends appear to rally behind her, but each slowly preys on her mind until the gruesome rumors of the last forty years appear to be coming true. On hand are cousin Miriam (Olivia de Havilland), Dr. Drew Bayliss (Joseph Cotton), Jewel Mayhew (Mary Astor), “Big Sam” Hollis (Victor Buono), and the scariest inhabitant of all, loyal servant Velma (Agnes Moorehead). |
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DAILY :Fri & Sat - 11pm Only !
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| Friday May 09 to Wednesday May 14 |
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 | | THE DHAMMA BROTHERS
> Dir: Jenny Phillips, Andy Kukura & Anne Marie Stein
> 2007 / Color / 76 min. / Video
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Please Note - ENDS WED. MAY 14th!
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| East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison—the end of the line in Alabama’s correctional system—is forever changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. The Donaldson Correctional Facility holds 1500 of the state’s most dangerous criminals. For some of these men a spark was ignited. In January 2002 the facility became the first maximum security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting 10 days. The Dhamma Brothers tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of 36 prison inmates who enter into this arduous and intensive program. It challenges the assumptions about the nature of prisons as places of punishment rather than rehabilitation and raises the question: is it possible for these men, some of whom have committed horrendous crimes, to change? |
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DAILY :7 & 9pm
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| Thursday May 15 to Thursday May 15 |
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| | THE G.I. JOE STOP MOTION FILM FESTIVAL
> Dir: various
> 2008 / Color / 90 min. / Video
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ONE NIGHT ONLY!!
MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW - CALL 206.523.3935
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| THE G.I. JOE STOP MOTION FILM FESTIVAL is the nation's first festival dedicated to screening works by stop-motion artists who use GI Joe or similar figures (12", 8", Sigma 6” and 3 ¾” sizes) as main characters or actors. THE G.I. JOE STOP MOTION FILM FESTIVAL will combine the excitement of world premiere short-films and fan tributes. The short film festival highlights up and coming filmmakers, as well as masters of the craft and has already attracted award winning films in the past. |
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DAILY :One Night Only - 7, 9 & 11pm
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| Friday May 16 to Saturday May 17 |
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| | THE SAVAGE STREETS
> Dir: Bryan Connolly
> 2008 / Color / 72 min. / Video
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| Detective Perkins (Eric Fundingsland) will stop at nothing to get rid of his accident-prone dimwitted partner Eddie Morris (Connolly). Loose cannon meets broken cannon as the two officers attempt to uphold the law with hilarious results. See a hostage situation get confused for a surprise birthday party. Ooops. Watch a grown man get tucked into bed!!! Is nothing sacred? Cocaine, gunshots, and twinkies! This wacky over the top yuka-thon will take you on a journey into the lives of real (real funny) police detectives. Locally made out-of-control romper with a special appearance by Santa Claus!!!!! |
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DAILY :Fri & Sat Only!! - 11PM
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| Friday May 16 to Thursday May 22 |
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| | DAUGHTERS OF WISDOM
> Dir: Bari Pearlman
> 2007 / Color / 68 min. / Video
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Co-Presented by Tasveer.
Director in attendance Friday & Saturday
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| In the summer of 2004, a group of filmmakers were invited to a place few westerners have ever seen. Situated on the Eastern Tibetan plateau north of the Himalayas, at an altitude of 14,000 feet, the Nangchen district of Kham is home to an estimated 60,000 subsistence farmers and nomadic herding families. Their way of life has changed little in over 2,000 years and it has traditionally been a high honor for a family to have a son become a monk. Now, for the first time, the women of Nangchen are being given the chance to change the course of their lives, and to continue a rich spiritual legacy. Built with their own hands and always expanding, the Kala Rongo Monastery is home to nearly 300 nuns who study and practice full-time, creating new opportunities for themselves and for the community they serve. Daughters of Wisdom is an intimate portrait of these nuns, who are receiving unprecedented educational and religious training, and preserving their rich cultural heritage even as they slowly re-shape it. Some shy, some outspoken, all committed to the often difficult life they have chosen, the nuns graciously allowed cameras a never-before-seen glimpse into their vibrant spiritual community and insight into their extraordinary lives. |
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DAILY :7 & 9pm
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| Friday May 23 to Thursday May 29 |
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| | YOUNG YAKUZA
> Dir: Jean-Pierre Limosin
> 2007 / Color / 90 min. / 35mm
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An Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival!
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| Enter the secret world of the Yakuza. Young Naoki Watanabe gets caught up in the wave of juvenile delinquency. He’s a failure at school, work and in his personal life. His mother, driven by shame and despair, is reunited with an old friend, Mr. Imai, who offers to introduce her son into the ranks of the Yakuza. His boss Kumagai, confronted by new trends facing Japan, feels that the Yakuza is being edged out of modern society. He takes Naoki under his wing and takes him around the city of Shinagawa to show him the realities of the modern Yakuza. Divided by loyalties to his mother and to his new “family,” Naoki will have to choose between the light and the dark. |
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DAILY :7 & 9pm
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| Friday May 30 to Thursday June 05 |
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| | WOMAN ON THE BEACH
> Dir: Hong Sang-Soo
> 2006 / Color / 127 min. / 35mm
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Seattle Premiere!
"An immaculately constructed movie."
- J. Hoberman
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| Woman on the Beach is that rarity, a genuinely fresh romantic comedy that slyly and subversively spins the conventions of the genre in new, unpredictable directions. Comparable to Eric Rohmer, it depicts attractive, talkative young people tripping over their own paradoxes as they follow a twisting path of self-examination and self-deception. In preparing for his next movie, filmmaker Joong-rae finds himself suffering from writer’s block and unable to finish his script. Looking to take a break, he pleads with his friend and production designer Chang-wook to join him on a trip to the west coast. Chang-wook has already made plans with his girlfriend Moon-sook, but he eventually resigns to his friend’s wishes, and decides to join Joong-rae. Bringing the vivacious Moon-sook along, Chang-wook and Joong-rae set off to visit the cherry-blossom covered Shinduri Beach Resort. Not long after their arrival, Joong-rae and Moon-sook are sneaking off for long walks on the strand. Already a fan of his films, Moon-sook falls for Joong-rae’s advances and the two spend a heated night together. Filled with anxiety the following day, the fickle hero can’t commit and he awkwardly parts with Moon-sook before hastily retreating to Seoul. Soon the narrative splits into two halves that mirror each other in a playful pattern of rhymes and variations. What had been a sardonic Jules and Jim turns into a burlesque Vertigo when Joong-rae returns to the coastal resort and attempts to recreate the original romance with a woman who resembles Moon-sook. Surprisingly, Moon-sook herself shows up and the onslaught of distractions and adversities inspires Joong-rae whose stalled screenplay begins to blossom. Deemed by many critics to be Hong Sang-soo’s (Turning Gate, Woman Is the Future of Man) most enjoyable and satisfying film, Woman on the Beach satirizes the immaturity of Korean men and the misalignment of art and life, as the mysteries of the heart and the mysteries of artistic creation collide in ways that are both ironic and affecting. |
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DAILY :6 & 8.30pm
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