Seattle Film Guide Oct 22-28: The revelations of Clint Eastwood regarding the “Hereafter”
Seattle Film Guide Oct 22-28
Opening This Week
Hereafter ”a lugubrious tale of wonderment” j. hoberman, the weekly
Conviction ”presents its heroine as a construct of uncomplicated altruism” melissa anderson, the weekly
Limited Runs
I Am Secretly an Important Man (NWFF, Oct 22-28) Bill White Reviews it For the Seattle PostGlobe
The Anchorage (NWFF, Oct 22-28) Bill White Reviews it For the Seattle PostGlobe
Vengeance (NWFF, Oct 22, 23 at 11 pm only) Bill White Reviews it For the Seattle PostGlobe
Last Train Home (Egyptian, Oct 22-28) Bill White Reviews it For the Seattle PostGlobe
Big Trouble in Little China and Night of the Creeps (Grand Illusion, Oct 22-28) This week’s double feature as monsters continue their October attack on the Grand Illusion.
Metropolis (SIFF Cinema, Oct 21-28) Fritz Lang’s vision of the future is now 25 minutes longer
Sean Axmaker Reviews it for the Seattle PostGlobe
Regeneration (Paramount, Oct 25) Final night of the Fall’s Silent Movie Crime Spree
Special Programs
Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (through Oct 24) Various Venues
Now Playing
Buried ”much of (Ryan) Reynolds’ performance consinsists of him grunting and heaving in the dark.” Karina Longworth, The Weekly
Catfish ”Much here is hard to swallow – if the viewer is being fished in, and how honest the filmmakers’ surprise at the surprise twists of Catfish is, are things known only to them and God.” Nock Pinkerton, Seattle Weekly
Easy A ”What this self-annointed Hester Prynne in Juicy Couture must battle most is the script” Melissa Anderson, Seattle Weekly
A Film Unfinished ”film about Warsaw ghetto is not, strictly speaking, a documentary” Ella Taylor, The Weekly
The Girl who Played With Fire Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
Inception ”director nolan either can’t articulate or doesn’t believe in a distinction between living feelings and dreams” Nick Pinkerton, Seattle Weekly
It’s Kind of a Funny Story Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
The Kids Are All Right ”serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo” J. Hoberman, Seattle Weekly
Life As We Know It ”offers some vicarious pleasure for the baby-hungry” Karina Longworth, The Weekly
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Let Me In ”against all odds and historical precedent, the American remake is as good as the original.” David Schmader, The Stranger
Never Let Me Go ”really a story about friendship and jealousy and the cool ease with which humans dehumanize each other out of self-interest” Lindy West, The Stranger
Nowhere Boy Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
Red ”Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever.” Robert Wilonsky, The Weekly
Secretariat ”horses make lousy protagonists” Nick Schager, The Weekly
Social Network ”Thankfully, (director David) Fincher doesn’t seem to have a Big Message.” Paul Constant, The Stranger
Stone ”at odds with its own lofty and base instincts, Stone ultimately channels neither compellingly” Nick Schager, The Weekly
The Town Beef jerky with a soft caramel center.
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
Waiting for Superman ”Davis Guggenheim’s call-to-arms documentary on the failures of the U.S. public-education system,,,originated with his own guilty conscience.” Melissa Anderson, The Weekly
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps ”Has anyone ever told Oliver Stone to shut up? I mean, like ever? Even once? Because there is the serious lack of a filter here.” Lindy West, The Stranger
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