The 100 Favorite Movies project at movies.msn.com takes another twenty clicks toward the top of the list, and your Straight Shooting correspondents have written up two of the entries (nos. 53 and 46). Check out the whole package at http://movies.msn.com/100-favorite-films/60-41/photo-gallery/feature/ Meanwhile...
The 100-fave-films rollout continues at movies.msn.com, and 40 through 21 includes two Howard Hawks pictures keynoted by Kathleen Murphy. Only Angels Have Wings (http://movies.msn.com/100-favorite-films/40-21/photo-gallery/feature/?photoidx=6) is part of a glorious cluster—Sunrise, Citizen Kane, and Casablanca came in at 39, 38, and 37—while Rio Bravo (http://movies.msn.com/100-favorite-films/40-21/photo-gallery/feature/?photoidx=15) finished in the neighborhood of Chinatown, Bringing Up Baby (also Hawks's), and A Hard Day's Night.
Framing Pictures convenes earlier than usual in the month of April—Friday, April 5, to be precise, at 5 p.m. at the usual venue, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave. The panel expects to start out talking about Leviathan, the latest from Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Sweetgrass); Room 237, the aggregation of many theories as to what Kubrick's The Shining is really about; and of course, irresistibly, The Shining itself. (Leviathan plays at NWFF; the other two will be on at SIFF.) Admittance is free; beer/wine/designer water, not. RSVP to our hospitality director Mr. Torrance, who just got the gladsome news that Lloyd will attend.
All 100 of the communally favorite movies of movies.msn.com have been announced by now. You can get easy access to any one of them via http://movies.msn.com/100-favorite-films-intro/photo-gallery/feature/. And if you'd care to read your Straight Shooting correspondents' words on numbers 2, 4, and 10, hit that "Read More" button.
Sam Peckinpah's much-messed-with 1965 film Major Dundee has just come out on Blu-ray from the boutique label Twilight Time. The two-disc set features both the 2005 reissue based on a preview version of the movie and the version released theatrically 48 years ago. Both are worth having, as the following Queen Anne & Magnolia News article from 2005 suggests. Pictured: Peckinpah stalwarts L.Q. Jones (Arthur Hadley), John Davis Chandler (Jimmy Lee Benteen)
April 30 was the last day for Moussa Samb’s role as customer-service supervisor for HomeStreet Bank on upper Queen Anne.
Framing Pictures will be staring down the opening weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival. That's right, the talkmeisters convene Friday, May 17, 5 p.m. at Northwest Film Forum for their monthly mulling over of movies new and old. One of them will be, inevitably, The Great Gatsby; pic at left is Carey Mulligan as Daisy ... but it should be Adelaide Clemens.
Jon Robin Baitz’s “Other Desert Cities,” currently playing at ACT Theatre, takes the holiday family dramedy to a new level.
Did you know that if your teenager starts drinking or using drugs during high school, there is an increasingly high chance they will abuse substances as adults?
Gene Mayer, owner of 34th Street Garage in Magnolia Village, used to have a flat roof that turned into a lake during heavy rains and melting snow.
On June 10, Queen Anne resident L.D. Zobrist e-mailed me with the news that Rick Malsed, 69, died the day before in Palm Springs, Calif. I had to step outside and take a long walk in the mild June sunshine — and remember.
Friday, June 14, was Jon Greenberg’s last day as a teacher at The Center School. The day before, Center School students were awarded the Mayor’s Award and Proclamation at City Hall for speaking out when the district suspended the school’s Citizens and Social Justice class taught by Greenburg.
Framing Pictures comes roaring back this Friday, June 21, 5 p.m. to talk about films new and old at NWFF.
Neil Jordan crosses over again into vampire country. Kathleen Murphy knows the border.