Let's All Go to The Movies
It's that time again! There's no point in putting it off - your weekend at the movies starts right now.
For our family minded readers, this weekend's must see event stretches all the way to next weekend when the 5th Annual Children's Film Festival Seattle kicks off tonight at Northwest Film Forum, proving that it's never too early to start turning your kid into a film geek. We toyed with the idea of listing the many, many films, workshops and events that you can get a load of between now and the Festival's closing on January 31st, but they are legion, and we found our assigned task too daunting. Thusly daunted, we entrust your fate to your own capable hands and humbly direct you to their website.
Sketch comedy troupe and YouTube celebrities (it's not a backhanded compliment, We swear!) Derrick Comedy will emerge from their lair deep in the steaming bowels of The Internet to host their new feature film Mystery Team at Central Cinema tonight and tomorrow alongside perpetual Central Cinema stars Pizza and Beer.
Grand Illusion starts a week long engagement of To My Great Chagrin, a documentary telling the story of one of the most overlooked voices in stand up, Brother Theodor. A performer comparable to Lenny Bruce channeling Rilke or Spalding Gray with the existentialism amped up to eleven, Theodor was a consumate performer, a profound philospher and a one of a kind comic whose morbid yet frenetic style influenced a generation of comics and creators from Woody Allen to Penn and Teller. Check him out on Letterman below.
And don't forget the late show at Grand Illusion this weekend is 80s grossout classic Street Trash, which is about bums drinking cheap liquor that causes them to melt. It is not necessarily better than it sounds - but then again, that's not really the point of the late show, now is it?
And if the coverage of the earthquake in Haiti doesn't have you quite depressed enough about the state of the world, you can relive Hurricane Katrina's Greatest Hits starting this weekend at SIFF Cinema, which brings the documentary Mine to the screen beginning tonight. It's got refugees, families who have lost everything, the greatest disaster to hit America in contemporary memory and oh yeah, beloved family pets caught up in the middle of a legal and ideological morass. The film has gotten solid reviews, and we have no reason to doubt it's reasonably well done, but man, it will almost certainly make you cry and cry and then cry some more.
