I Like Movies
In 2002 suburban Canada, a 17-year-old film aficionado with his sights set on NYU picks up a gig at a local video store where he learns what it takes to grow up and that maybe not everybody wants to hear him bloviate about Paul Thomas Anderson movies all day.
Director Chandler Levack scheduled to attend.
CLOSING NIGHT FILM & PARTY
Join us in closing out the 49th Seattle International Film Festival with a screening of I Like Movies at SIFF Cinema Egyptian, followed by an afterparty at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI). Film & Party tickets include admission to the film at the Egyptian, and all the delights at the after-party: full access to MOHAI, signature SIFF cocktails featuring Tito's Vodka, sweet and savory bites from Gourmondo, 360 photo booth, raffle prizes and silent auction, and a live DJ.
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Screening: 5:00 PM | SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Party: 7:30 PM | MOHAI
Film & Party* Tickets: $85 ($75 SIFF Members)
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Note: Tickets to the in-person screening on May 21 not available without full Film & Party package.
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Sunday, May 21, 2023
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- Matinee
Like all great comedies, Chandler Levack's I Like Movies is incisive, truthful, and razor-sharp. This quirky, nostalgia-infused indie is set in the early aughts and boasts time capsule-like millennial coming-of-age details. It's both a love letter to movies and a look at how, for one self-righteous yet loveable young misfit, they are also a coping mechanism. It follows 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence (Isaiah Lehtinen), who plans to grace NYU film school with his presence after high school—just as soon as he makes a quick $90K. Naturally, he gets a job at his local suburban video store, Sequels, but it isn't as lucrative as he imagined. There, he forms a layered relationship with his manager Alana (Romina D'Ugo) that causes him to confront his self-sabotaging ways—but not before they blow up in his face. At its heart, I Like Movies is the personal journey of a flawed but big-hearted underdog. Having said that, it also doesn't shy away from satirizing the more toxic elements of the movie business from film snobbery to misogyny. Don't miss the insights and laughs that this one-of-a-kind-gem has to offer.
- Director: Chandler Levack
- Principal Cast: Isaiah Lehtinen, Romina D’Ugo, Krista Bridges, Percy Hynes White
- Country: Canada, USA
- Year: 2022
- Running Time: 100 min.
- Producer: Lindsay Blair Goeldner, Evan Dubinsky, Chandler Levack
- Screenplay: Chandler Levack
- Cinematographers: Rico Moran
- Editors: Simone Smith
- Music: Murray Lightburn
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: Debut Feature Film
- Language: English
- US Distributor: Visit Films
- International Sales: Visit Films