It was announced a couple of times (though not here) that the next session of our roving chitchat on movies, Framing Pictures, would take place this coming Friday, May 4. That turns out to be a big gala fundraising day for our current host, Northwest Film Forum, so we—Kathleen Murphy, the Herald's Robert Horton, and I—are happy to shift our playdate a week later. Please come join the conversation at 5 p.m. Friday, May 11, at 1515 12th Ave.(between Pine and Pike on Capitol Hill). Admission is gratis, but the NWFF bar will be open, should that be of interest to you.
As to the subjects up for discussion, we have yet to confer on that. Maybe we'll be taking a look back at Robert Altman's all-too-rare 1982 beauty Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, in which Altman's mystical mise-en-scène translates what must surely be a pretty bad play into thrilling cinema. The cast includes Sandy Dennis, Karen Black, and Cher. Incidentally, it was Altman who first cast Cher in a dramatic film role, a credit sometimes accorded the more widely known Silkwood. NWFF will show a restoration print this Saturday, May 5, at 5 p.m.
Meanwhile, did you know Framing Pictures now has a niche on Facebook? You can keep close touch on us there: http://www.facebook.com/framingpictures —RTJ