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Regular - $10; Members - $8; Students/Seniors - $9 w/ID
Matinees - $7 (first show of the day on weekends)
Member Tuesdays - all screenings - SIFF Group members plus their guest are $5 per person
SIFF Cinema’s Summer 2007 schedule starts on July 6 with the first annual Seattle Noir City Festival. Born five years ago in San Francisco, Noir City has become a mecca for lovers of rain-slicked streets, shadowy alleys, and sex bombs in silk peignoirs. Consummate showman and noir expert Eddie Muller will introduce many of the programs of rare titles in Noir City. In Muller’s words, “The future looks dark.”
Directly following the week-long Noir City, we present a beautiful new 35mm Scope print of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, a masterpiece that has divided noir-ists for the thirty-some years since its release in 1973. Is it or isn’t it noir? J. Hoberman writes in the Village Voice, “A New Wave anti-noir!” Bruce Bennett of the New York Sun says, “The most improbably faithful screen adaptation of [Raymond] Chandler ever made.” We invite you to decide, but whatever you do, don’t miss it!
July 20-August 2 we present 4 films from New Crowned Hope - a celebratory festival conceived by Peter Sellars for the city of Vienna in celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth - Apachatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Daratt, Bahman Ghobadi’s Half Moon, and Tsai Ming-Liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.
In August we will premiere films by two of the most audacious filmmakers on the international scene. Aki Kaurismäki’s Lights in the Dusk is the conclusion to his “loser trilogy”, and Lars Von Trier's The Boss of It All as well as the extraordinary new documentary by Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic, Ghosts of Cité Soleil, and a tribute to the great director Stanley Kubrick with all of his acknowledged films in gorgeous prints.
September starts with the 1 Reel Film Festival at Bumbershoot showcasing the best of short films from around the world, and continues with the beautiful restoration of Max Ophul’s exquisite The Earrings of Madame De… along with a gorgeous new print of Jean-Pierre Melville’s superb noir thriller, Le Doulos