Weekend Film Agenda: July 9
NW Film Forum presents the Seattle premiere ofWomen Without Men. Shirin Neshat makes her directorial debut with a film adaptation of Shahmush Parsipur’s novel about four Iranian women from different social classes struggling with personal tragedies as they seek refuge from the tumult of the 1953 government coup. Henry Art Gallery Associate Curator Sara Krajewski introduces the 7 pm screening on July 9.
Also at NWFF: D Tour continues through the weekend.
Central Cinema has nightly screenings of one of the greatest movie musicals of all time, the charming Singing in the Rain. With a great cast led by Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, great songs, and a fun plot that combines romance and Hollywood intrigue, Singing in the Rain is a guaranteed good time.
Johanna is a drug addict with critical injuries from a bus accident who is admitted into a hospital in Budapest for care. A coma somehow cures her of her morphine habit but it leaves her with amnesia so she takes up permanent residency in the hospital, working miracles of medicine by making love. At the Grand Illusion.
Late night at the Grand Illusion: Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl, a love triangle involving a school student, a vampire and, uh…a Frankenstein Girl. You’re not going for the plot, you’re going for the gory thrills in a movie made by the folks who brought you Tokyo Gore Police, Machine Girl and Robo Geisha.
Midnight at the Egyptian: Years before George Lucas told Carrie Fisher that there’s no underwear in space, Jane Fonda proved it in Barbarella, a space opera made mostly to show off how hot she was.
Midnight at the AMC Pacific Place: John Hughes classic The Breakfast Club.
Also at the AMC Pacific Place: Keeping yourself from singing along to Grease can be tough, but now you don’t need to – at the Grease Sing-a-Long everybody’s encouraged to join Danny, Sandy and the rest of the T-Birds and Pink Ladies in belting out the hits.
Winner of two Golden Space Needle awards (for Best Director and Best Actress) at SIFF 2010, Winter’s Bone is a haunting drama about seventeen-year-old Ree’s mission to find her bail jumping father before her impoverished family loses their home. Her search through the Ozarks woods threatens everything she has, including her life as even her own relatives won’t stop at murder to keep her from tracking him down. At Metro Cinemas and the Uptown.
