This jazz series runs the gamut from vintage films to brand-new work-in-progress screenings. All films screen at . Jazz Jukebox Films from the 1940s (including "soundies" from Nat "King" Cole, Fats Waller, and more), . My Name Is Albert Ayler (about the free jazz saxophonist; director in attendance Wed), . This Is Gary McFarland (a local film about the autodidact musician and composer), . Animation + Syncopation: Swinging Cartoons for the Whole Family, . Jazz on the West Coast: The Lighthouse (a documentary about the Hermosa Beach club), . Jazz Women on Screen (clips presented by music historian Joe Vinikow), .
A Japanese film about two young girls who convince a male peer that he has forgotten his love for one of them due to a bump on the head. , UW campus, .
Set in the '50s, Kitchen Stories follows a group of researchers from Sweden's Home Research Institute as they travel to Norway to study the kitchen habits of bachelors. Director Bent Hamer throws in an assload of beautiful landscape images and some charming visual jokes into a movie that is ultimately very slight. (ANDY SPLETZER) , .
A screening of short films by women, hosted by Women in Film-Seattle. Includes Backseat Bingo, a film about the love lives of senior citizens, and One Weekend a Month, a film about a single mother and member of the National Guard whose unit is deployed to Iraq. , .
Short films from the North Carolina festival showcasing the work of women filmmakers from Vancouver to Iowa City. For a complete schedule, see www.msfilms.org . , .
Kaneto Shindo's 1960 silent tone poem on the difficulties of human (and plant) life on a remote Japanese archipelago is still unavailable on Region 1 DVD. See it this weekend on 16 mm with a live music and sound score by Aono Jikken Ensemble (An Inn in Tokyo, The Lady and the Beard). , .
Northwest Screenwriters Guild hosts director Nick Stagliano (The Florentine) in this lecture, which is free to members and also open to the public (tickets $10). , .
The Asian horror genre gets the triptych treatment in this collection of stories directed by three different directors: Japan's Takashi Miike, Hong Kong's Fruit Chan, and Korea's Park Chan-wook. Miike's spooky and elegant Box is about sibling rivalry and a dead twin, Chan's Dumplings is a grossly predictable but memorable tale about a nasty secret to youth and beauty (and it's shot by Christopher Doyle), and Park's Cut takes an idea straight out of Stephen King's Misery or Scorsese's King of Comedy to gory, operatic heights. (SHANNON GEE) , , , , , , .
For many in the punk world, the Minutemen were something of a legend. The San Pedro trio only lasted five years in the early '80s, but their chemistry, odd rhythms, clipped song lengths, and political/humorous lyrics influenced musicians for years to come. We Jam Econo is a love letter to the band—Mike Watt, D. Boon, and George Hurley, all of whom are interviewed in this film. (Boon was killed in a car crash in 1985, but there is vintage footage of the guitarist from the band's early days.) The hardcore Minutemen appreciation society will most likely appreciate the little details that come out of the film's extensive scope—like how Boon and Watt met as kids when Boon fell out of a tree, or how Watt went into a music store not knowing what a bass was (somehow) after already starting to play the instrument. (JENNIFER MAERZ) , .
Hiphop goes to the Hamptons in this movie about a young man whose ideal girl gets herself unhappily hitched to a Wall Street bigshot. Ah, avarice! Ah, authenticity!
Another entry in the burgeoning black gospel genre, this Rob Hardy movie is about an R&B singer/prodigal son who has strayed from the flock of a his father, a bishop. Unlike the genre trailblazers Woman, Thou Art Loosed and Diary of a Mad Black Woman, however, this film does not star Kimberly Elise.
ARTS SHOWS - Central Cinema hosts The Black Panther Party R. Comm. film series starting tonight. If you are not political, it is never too late to learn why you should be.
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