Director Michael Harring on The Mountain, The River and The Road

Our former colleague and current filmmaker Michael Harring’s latest movie The Mountain, The River and The Road is opening the Local Sightings Film Festival this Friday, October 2nd at 7pm at Northwest Film Forum.  We asked him to share  his experiences making the film, and here is his wonderful response:
It’s so much easier to write …

We’re off to see the Wizard! New Releases for September 29th

The last week of September brings a diverse mix of titles: big-budget blockbusters and charming indies, a new local film, lots of new imports, the DVD debut of Penn & Teller Get Killed and a thriller starring a cast of mannequins. Here’s the list (note: a * means we also have it on Blu-ray):
THE WIZARD …

Sweet 16 Sales September 29

1 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Season 4
2 Wallace & Gromit: Matter of Loaf and Death
3 Office, The: Season 5 (U.S.)
4 Dexter: Season 3
5 Human Condition, The (Criterion)
6 Homicide (Criterion)
7 Wallace & Gromit: Complete Collection
8 American Werewolf in London, An (Full Moon Edition)
9 That Hamilton Woman (Criterion)
10 Wallace & Gromit: Complete Collection BluRay
11 30 Rock: Season 3
12 Phantasm 2
13 Urgh! A Music War
14 Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
15 Ong Bak …

Blurgh! I knew I forgot something in the weekend viewing recommendations: If you’re looking to get out of town this lovely weekend but still need to watch good films, grab your ferry schedule and head out to the  THE PORT TOWNSEND FILM FESTIVAL. They’re playing AN AMERICAN IN PARIS outside tonight at 7:30pm and many, …

Hello and welcome to our weekend viewing recommendations. The Coen Brothers’ new film A SERIOUS MAN comes out next Friday, so we suggest you spend some time between now and then visiting their directors’ section. Have you seen THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE recently? We also just got in a new batch of Warner Archive …

BEFORE THEY WERE BASTERDS

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Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is perhaps his most deft handling of reference and homage yet. The video store nerds at Scarecrow Video would like to present to you an unofficial and in progress footnotes companion to Basterds. Some of these films are directly referenced in the film, others are only evoked, while others …

A few midweek news notes: #1: Congratulations to local filmmaker James Longley (Iraq In Fragments) for winning a MacArthur Genius grant. We direct you to Annie Wagner’s overview of Longley’s  amazing work over on SLOG. We have his 2002 film Gaza Strip in the World History section and Iraq In Fragments with the short film …

30 Rock: Season 3 and the rest of the New Releases for September 22nd

30 ROCK: SEASON 3—Fresh off its third straight Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, this season features Oprah, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Martin, the cast of Night Court and the benevolent stars of KIDNEY NOW. Rent it to rewatch all the jokes you laughed through or buy it  for maximum repeated viewing.  Liz’s high school reunion, the …