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A Good Man Commissioned by the Ravinia Festival, renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones sets out to create a c... Details >
The Nine Muses Twenty-five years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus still has not returned home. His son,... Details >
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Music Movies
Music Movies
If you love some music with your movies, mark your calendar for these upcoming screenings, where the soundtrack is a character of it's own.
Andrew Bird: Fever Year
Director In Attendance
Followed by an opening night party!
Feb 17
(Xan Aranda, 2011, USA, HD, 81 min
Filmed in the final months of Andrew Bird’s grueling 165-date tour, Andrew Bird: Fever Year emerges as a concert documentary as much about Bird’s creative process as the performances shown. Featuring inside looks into Bird’s studio barn and electronic looping process, rehearsals and revision, the film delicately portrays how Bird makes music.
Have You Ever Had A Beard?
Sponsored by Easy Street Records
Post-screening performance by Calvin Johnson!
Directors in attendance!
Mar 05
(Kathy Wolf and Pat Thomas, 2011, USA, DVD, 35 min)
Like a title weight bout, raucous music writer Chris Estey goes "toe to toe" with cagey music maverick Calvin Johnson about important subjects such as beards and other mysteries of life. Have You Ever Had a Beard? is a study in contrasts, comparing the lyric heavy songwriting of Calvin Johnson against the the ebullient music journalism of Chris Estey. Meeting for the first time, both men perform at the Columbia City Theatre—a Seattle stage that’s played host to everyone from Bessie Smith to Jimi Hendrix since its opening in 1910.
From the Back of the Room
Seattle Premiere!
Sponsored by Easy Street Records
Mar 06 - Mar 08
(Amy Oden, 2011, USA, Blu-ray, 102 min)
Deconstructing myths of the Utopian quality of alternative cultures, From the Back of the Room confronts punk patriarchy. With first hand testimonies from Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna, comic-book artist Cristy Road, Slug and Lettuce zinester Chris Boarts-Larson and Slade from Tribe 8, the film addresses issues of gender, race, class and sexuality within DIY punk. While cataloging the lineage of the femme-punk movement, the film serves as more than a history lesson; it's the beginning of a larger discussion on how these issues manifest today.
Gainsbourg, the Man Who Loved Women
Seattle Premiere!
Sponsored by Easy Street Records
Mar 23 - Mar 25
(Pascal Forneri, 2010, France, Blu-ray, 105 min)
When he wasn’t chain smoking or chasing tail, Serge Gainsbourg made music. Also an actor and director, the Casanova was known for both his talent and his appetite for scandal. The French icon tells his own story in this new docudrama. Accompanied by interviews from former muses and lovers, a parallax portrait emerges.