Framing Pictures took the month off in July, but the cadre re-convenes 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, at Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave. There's been a gratifying first-run slate of movies worth talking about—Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, Ryan Coogler's galvanizing debut Fruitvale Station, Wong Kar-wai's who-is-this-movie-for? The Grandmaster, and the return-of-the-District Nine guy, Elysium. Melville's Un Flic is having a run at our host's facility, and Cimino's Heaven's Gate rolls on in restoration. And we've been having some stimulating encounters lately, via Bluray, with films we thought we were more or less settled with, long ago—the 1936 Wells-Korda-William Cameron Menzies curio Things to Come, for instance, and John Ford's The Horse Soldiers. And what is this about Ophuls' Madame de... (Andrew Sarris's nomination for greatest film of all time) getting betrayed by digital mishandling? Plus, PLUS, we're still holding out the invitation and the hope that our friends out there beyond the footlights (that would be you, even if there are no footlights) will bring some questions and themes of your own to talk about. Framing Pictures is a conversation. And talk remains cheap: admittance is free (potables aren't).
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