tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32833380967928945282024-03-05T15:51:25.848-08:00Metro Classics - Seattle's 4th (or 5th) Most Popular Repertory Film SeriesMikeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08400927064697543220noreply@blogger.comBlogger476125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-86629730962651138852011-12-03T22:43:00.001-08:002011-12-03T22:43:34.675-08:00Farewell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So long everyone. Thanks for five great years of Metro Classics!Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-90529989522884157672011-11-30T06:00:00.000-08:002011-11-30T06:00:00.403-08:00Tonight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wednesday November 30th at 7:00 & 9:10 PM.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-48394012359810473402011-11-23T02:09:00.001-08:002011-11-23T02:10:09.721-08:00Tonight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-29490013863016040032011-11-21T23:47:00.000-08:002011-11-21T23:48:42.544-08:00Coming Attractions: Frankenstein<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bKyiXjyVsfw" width="420"></iframe><br />
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Wednesday, November 23rd at 7 & 9:10 PM.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-75919521593524682522011-11-18T20:01:00.001-08:002011-11-18T20:01:13.787-08:00Happy Thanksgiving!<iframe frameborder="0" height="347" id="NBC Video Widget" src="http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=1177608" width="512"></iframe>Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-52957230248200738552011-11-16T12:30:00.001-08:002011-11-16T12:30:55.989-08:00Tonight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-32280622006517896942011-11-14T16:42:00.001-08:002011-11-14T16:43:47.828-08:00Coming Attractions: Carrie<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yJe0iVo8y3A" width="360"></iframe>Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-59333426711761170512011-11-09T01:05:00.000-08:002011-11-09T01:05:17.913-08:00Tonight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-74704909874291790942011-11-05T11:58:00.000-07:002011-11-05T11:58:04.010-07:00Coming Attractions: Doctor Zhivago<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wAWrXTn5Www" width="420"></iframe>Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-65112074974131707252011-11-02T05:30:00.000-07:002011-11-02T05:30:02.700-07:00Tonight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Giveaways: <i>Man Hunt</i> DVD courtesy of Scarecrow Video and a Gift Certificate to Cinema Books, respectively.</div>
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Wednesday, November 2nd at 6:50 and 9:15 PM.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-67008000226167572852011-10-26T12:59:00.001-07:002011-10-26T12:59:04.677-07:00Tonight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-87211913107981852632011-10-21T23:15:00.000-07:002011-10-21T23:15:26.073-07:00Coming Attractions: Dr. Strangelove: Or I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1gXY3kuDvSU" width="420"></iframe><br />
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Wednesday, October 26th at 7 & 9:10 PM.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-86894430292910193352011-10-19T08:09:00.000-07:002011-10-19T08:09:00.788-07:00Tonight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Giveaways: <i>Sleeper</i> DVD courtesy of Scarecrow Video and a Gift Certificate to Cinema Books, respectively.</div>
<br />Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-65336486815812408862011-10-14T07:00:00.000-07:002011-10-14T07:00:03.253-07:00Coming Attractions: Annie Hall<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M85gaKOtKVo" width="420"></iframe>Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-37361413499782790842011-10-12T13:07:00.000-07:002011-10-12T13:07:08.732-07:00Tonight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Giveaways: <i>Radio Days</i> DVD courtesy of Scarecrow Video and a Gift Certificate to Cinema Books, respectively.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-72418650021869518012011-10-08T01:27:00.000-07:002011-10-08T01:27:46.832-07:00Coming Attractions: Zelig<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/agkCEOHQVgg" width="360"></iframe><br />
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Wednesday, October 12th at 7 & 9:10 pm.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-89182290848912747492011-10-05T02:02:00.000-07:002011-10-05T02:02:25.263-07:00Tonight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Giveaways: A DVD from Scarecrow Video and a gift certificate to Cinema Books, respectively.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-57960915794886533912011-09-30T12:06:00.000-07:002011-09-30T12:06:26.851-07:00Coming Attractions: Hannah and Her Sisters<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Qtgw38Yq2Qs" width="420"></iframe><br />
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Wednesday, October 5th at 7 & 9:10 PM.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-61568475952129502572011-09-28T06:00:00.000-07:002011-09-28T06:00:18.460-07:00Tonight!<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Vincent Canby reviewed <i>Jeanne Dielman</i> in the <a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C07E0DA143BF930A15750C0A965948260">New York Times</a> back in 1983 (8 years after the film was made), noting the film's roots in the art house style of the 1960s and making an important distinction between minimalism and naturalism:<br />
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"Like its blunt title, Chantal Akerman's <i>Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles</i>, deals in unadorned facts. It's about the looks and sounds of ordinary things and people, which it records with such precise, unsettling clarity that it has the effect of finding threats in mundane objects and doom in commonplace characters. . . .<br />
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<i>Jeanne Dielman</i> is not quite like any other film you've ever seen, though it does recall the early films of Jean-Luc Godard as well as some of the work of our structuralist film makers of the late 1960's and 70's. It's as fastidious and deadpanned as its title character, a genteel, middle-class widow-and-mother who supports herself and her teen-age son by prostitution each afternoon, in her depressingly tidy apartment, with a series of fastidious gentlemen callers, middle-aged and older.<br />
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<i>Jeanne Dielman</i>, which opens today at the Film Forum, has been described as minimalist, though I don't see how any film this long and so packed with information could be equated with minimalism as defined in painting. The manner of the film is spare, but the terrible, obsessive monotony of the life it observes is ultimately as melodramatic as, say, Roman Polanski's <i>Repulsion</i>.<br />
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Miss Akerman records three crucial days in the life of Jeanne Dielman (Miss Seyrig) as if she were observing the habits of some previously unknown insect."<br />
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25 years later, Dennis Lim wrote about the film in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/movies/18lim.html">Times</a>, noting its widespread influence on contemporary art house filmmaking:<br />
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"it has long enjoyed canonical status among cinephiles and regularly turns up on critics’ polls of all-time great films. With <i>Jeanne Dielman</i>, Ms. Akerman forged a link between the high modernism of golden-age European cinema and the emerging trend of postmodernist deconstruction. Today the film’s observational strategies — its long takes and scrupulous framing — practically amount to a lingua franca of international art film, discernible in the works of artists from Portugal’s Pedro Costa to Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul to China’s Jia Zhangke. Among American independents, its descendants include Todd Haynes’s <i>Safe</i>, Lodge Kerrigan’s <i>Claire Dolan</i> and Gus Van Sant’s <i>Last Days</i>."<br />
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Lim also talked to Ackerman herself, who agrees that the film is far from minimalist:<br />
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"While Ms. Akerman acknowledges that the rise of women’s studies lifted the film’s reputation in the United States, she has little patience for the various “isms” — feminism, minimalism, structuralism — that have framed the discussion around it. “I don’t think it’s minimalist,” she said. “I think it’s maximalist. It’s big! And if I did the film now I don’t know that it would be called feminist. It could have been done about a man, too.<br />
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“All those labels are a bit annoying,” she continued. “To name something is a way to possess it. I think it makes the film smaller. And O.K., maybe they are right, but they are never right enough.”"<br />
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When they released the film on DVD, Criterion sponsored a web video cooking contest to go along with the distinctive cooking scenes in <i>Jeanne Dielman</i>. <a href="http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1251-guide-to-the-jeanne-dielman-video-contest">Here are some</a> of their favorites.<br />
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Personally, I think everyone's underrating the influence of this film on Phil Hartman's career:<br />
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Wednesday, September 28th at 7 PM.Sean Gilmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16124894627028920508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-44166384618091043522011-09-21T06:00:00.000-07:002011-09-21T06:00:08.504-07:00Tonight!<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">At 7:00 P.M. only!</div>Mikeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08400927064697543220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283338096792894528.post-29205030402478319312011-09-19T02:31:00.000-07:002011-09-19T02:31:00.304-07:00Links: Celine & Julie Go Boating<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nora Sayre reviewed <i>Celine & Julie Go Boating</i> in the <a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940CE5DC163FE13BBC4053DFB667838F669EDE&partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes">New York Times</a> back in October of 1974, and noted in particular the film's literary allusions, Lewis Carroll, Marcel Proust and Henry James, but also it's Choose Your Own Adventure nature, both for the characters and the audience:<br />
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"There's some delightful slapstick afoot as the two run amok, and the last section of the movie is on a par with the comedy of the beginning. In between, there are some marshy passages, mainly due to relentless whimsey. As in <i>Out One/Spectre</i>, the actresses invented their own parts (although the scenes in the house were scripted). In both movies, there are leading characters who are obsessed with solving a mystery; as they become detectives, the audience is invited to do likewise. We're also supposed to create our own plotline for what's actually occurring in that house."<br />
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In <a href="http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/celine-and-julie-go-boating/2552">Slant Magazine</a>, Keith Uhlich adds some filmic allusions:<br />
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"Jacques Rivette's masterpiece—quite possibly his greatest film—is a deceptively light-hearted confection that begins and ends (or, rather, begins again) at the entrance to a Parisian wonderland. Bespectacled librarian Julie (Dominique Labourier) pursues amateur magician Céline (Juliet Berto) across a city of dreams (hence the film's homage-to-Feuillade subtitle, "Phantom Ladies Over Paris"), though Rivette doesn't distinguish between the real and the imagined. Theirs is a world of limitless, initially aimless possibilities (reflecting the film's own improvisational genesis) that are slowly honed to a sharp precision point. Those bracing themselves for (or already baffled by) David Lynch's<i> Inland Empire </i>will find the seeds of that film's madness in <i>Céline and Julie Go Boating</i>, what with its pervasive Lewis Carroll referents and seamless doubling effects. . . .(The) story-within—which also features Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, and Barbet Schroeder going through a series of hilariously deadpan motions—has been described as everything from an RKO programmer to a Henry James pastiche: like a fourth-wall smashing Kuleshov experiment, it is what you make of it."<br />
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I think Jeffrey Anderson sums it all up nicely though at <a href="http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/celine.shtml">Combustible Celluloid</a>:<br />
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"One possible explanation is that <i>Celine and Julie Go Boating</i> is a fantasy where Rivette and the audience can enter into a movie filled with ghosts and change things around. How often have we imagined what old movies would be like if we could change one little thing? The other important thing to point out is that <i>Celine and Julie Go Boating</i> seems primarily focused on the joy of cinema. Truffaut once said that a movie should represent either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema--anything inbetween did not interest him. <i>Celine and Julie Go Boating</i> has magic, poetry, singing, lots of laughter (the actresses seem to have giggle fits every time the camera is on them), as well as the ghost and murder story.<br />
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A third explanation for the movie is that it seems like we're watching realism; the long takes and natural sound. When in reality the whole creation is one of pure cinema. There is no reality in this movie. In a perfect world, there would be an old movie palace somewhere that plays <i>Celine and Julie Go Boating</i> over and over. Then there would be balance."<br />
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