REEL UNDERGROUND
FILM REVIEWS
AND CALENDAR
BY ANDREA HELM
911 Media Arts
117 Yale Ave. N. - 682-6552
In collaboration with Ecce Queer Magazine, 911 Media Arts presents MIX, a two-part offering from the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival.
Part II - Oct. 22
Sugar Loaf is a program of lesbian and gay films and videos from Brazil, billed as "recent queer work from the Southern Hemisphere." Films include: O Brinco (The Earring); A Segunda Besta (The Second Best); Francha com Francha
(Dyke After Dyke); No Mirror; Chancleteras; Temporada de Caca (The Hunting Season); Au Revoir, Shirlei; and Viva Eu!
Oct. 29
Windows remembers youth, the desires of adulthood and fear of death in one person's lifetime. Produced, written and directed by Peter J. Vogt.
Nov. 5
Benefit at RKCNDY with the Tiny Hat Orchestra and others. Man, this band is good. Beer, film and big-band dance ska. Proceeds go to help 911 (get it? 911? Help? Never mind...)
Nov. 12
Beauty Shall be Convulsive: A Tribute to Paul Sharits, who made films beginning in the mid-60s and continuing 'til he died this summer. Epileptics are warned not to attend this screening. Really. Program includes Ray Gun Virus, Optic Nerve, and Warm Broth. Presented by Pinhole Cinema.
Nov. 19
Nozone: new works by Greta Snider, a San Fran punk rock filmmaker and an anarchistic historian. Features live telephone hookup with Snider after the screening. Show includes Futility, Hard Core Home Movie, NOZONE and others.
Nov. 21
Lynn Hershman's Virtual Love is a feature-length video about virtual reality and 21st Century love (isn't that the same thing?).
Grand Illusion
50th & Univ Way NE - 523-3935
The Hong Kong Film Festival continues:
Oct. 15-21: Dragon Inn. 22-28: Savior of the Soul. 10/29-11/4: Peking Opera Blues. 11/5-11: Hard Boiled. 12-18: A Better Tomorrow III.
Coming in November: The 2nd Human Rights Watch Film Festival. 11/18: Serbian Epics; 11/19: Finzan; 11/20: Khush; 11/21: Guilt and Remembrance and Speak Up! It's So Dark; 11/21: Visions of the Spirit; 11/23: Hands on the Verdict; 11/24: Magic in the Sky. All proceeds benefit the Human Rights Watch. Call the Grand Illusion for more info.
The Neptune
Corner of 45th & Brooklyn in the U-District - 633-5545
Oct. 17-21
Tokyo Decadence, a black-humor story about sex and fantasies and sex and prostitution and drugs and sex for adults only.
Oct. 22-24
Taiga: Journey to the Northern Land of the Mongols is a three-part epic about, well, a nomadic journey through Northern Mongolia. Part one runs all three days; part two runs Saturday and Sunday; and part three runs Sunday only.
Oct. 25
Two with Jim Jarmusch: Down By Law, with scruffy beat-daddy singer Tom Waits, is a "loser" comedy about three Louisiana correctional facility inmates who go for freedom. Double-billed with Stranger Than Paradise, Jarmusch's film debut, a "punk-minimalist look" (what would that look like?) at three strange characters. "Weirdly touching," according to the promo. I'm touched. Weird.
Oct. 26
Mephisto, the Oscar-winning adaptation of the story of a stage performer who gives in to his Nazi urges to achieve success. Double-billed with The Tin Drum. This 1979 German tale, which won a Best Foreign Film Oscar, gives a boy's-eye view of war and adulthood.
Oct. 27
The Story of Qui Ju is a humorous story of justice that comes out when a farmer tries to right a wrong done to her husband. Double-billed with Tampopo, a tough-cowboy-trucker-turned-ramen-noodle-cooker story from Japan.
Oct. 28
It's a David Lynch weekend with Twin Peaks: Walk Fire with Me and Wild at Heart. The first is the movie made after the TV show fizzled out; you know, the one that tells the storyline before the TV show begins. Second film says the whole world's crazy and wild at heart somewhere over the rainbow.
Oct. 29-Nov. 4
One week of Orson Welles' It's All True, his South American adventure finally made it to the big screen. Includes original three-strip Technicolor footage of Carnival in Rio and comes complete with behind-the-scenes interviews with survivors and everything.
Nov. 5-7
ERASERHEAD. See it. Believe it. See it. Live it. Just like that stuff they advertise on TV, taste it again for the first time.
Nov. 12-13
Gift, featuring music by Jane's Addiction. Don't know anything else about this one. But if you're a fan of that band, I guess you don't need anything else.
Pike Street Cinema
1108 Pike at Boren - 682-7064
Oct. 22-28
Steal America is San Francisco filmmaker Lucy Phillips' debut feature. Realism is alluded to through the use of a grainy, black and white cinema veritŽ documentary-type look at three imported slackers and their subsequent inertia. One of the film's main characters looks, acts and talks like a character from an Anais Nin novel. Yum.
Oct. 29
Just in time for Halloween: the resurrection of a Mexican vampire double-feature with The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy and Dracula's Coffin. These two are not to be missed.
Oct. 30
Hey kids! It's Boffo the Clown! Live and in person! I'm scared.
Shining Moment Films
(at the Weathered Wall)
1921 Fifth Avenue - 448-5688/325-1364
Nitrate Visions moves to the first Sunday of every month. Scheduled films include Synphonie Diagonale; Felix Does It Out (with Felix the Cat); Fultah Fisher's Boarding House (another Frank Capra epic); Getting Acquainted with Charlie Chaplin; and others. Sure I like the Weathered Wall, but sure I miss The Rendezvous. Sure don't miss the sound of gunfire in alleyways, tho. Only thing louder is the sound of the piss as it splashes back at ya.
Shorts
The Making of an American Messiah will begin filming in Seattle over the Thanksgiving weekend. The film, brainchild of Taso Lagos, director of the Screenwriters Academy in Seattle, will be produced locally and is a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. It has been compared (by whom, I don't know) as a cross between This is Spinal Tap and The Player. The production office has opened to coordinate casting searches, schedules and production costs. For more info, contact American Messiah Productions at (206) 634-2877.
The Seattle Actors Lab, 1219 Westlake Avenue North Suite 301, has a series of classes designed to develop one's acting abilities and creativity. Staff includes Leilani Whitney, lab director; Van Brooks, creative director, who worked on the cult classic Blood Simple and is the founder of the Seattle Actors Lab; Barry Caillier, who wrote, directed, cast and shot two award-winning feature films in Seattle (Daredreamer and To Cross the Rubicon); John Jacobsen and Paul Shapiro. Call (206) 286-1924 for more info. Call (206) 286-1924 for more info.
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