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Home *Seattle Cinemaland, *SGS Recommends, *The Strangeways Report, Arts & Entertainment, Film, Film Festivals, Seattle CineramaCinerama’s 70mm Festival Is Happening….NOW!

Cinerama’s 70mm Festival Is Happening….NOW!

August 24, 2017• byMichael Strangeways
Alfred Hitchcock's beautiful but problematic ode to obsession, 1958's VERTIGO is one of the films featured in Seattle Cinerama's 70mm Film Festival happening now through Sept 6, 2017

Alfred Hitchcock’s beautiful but problematic ode to obsession, 1958’s VERTIGO is one of the films featured in Seattle Cinerama’s 70mm Film Festival happening now through Sept 6, 2017

Big, Big, BIG MOVIES!!!

On a Big, Big, BIG SCREEN!!!

Yes, it’s that time of year…for Seattle Cinerama’s big annual 70mm Film Festival where you can see big prints on a big screen of your favorite movies…it’s happening now (August 24th) through September 6th.

Not only do they have beloved older films like David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, but they’ve programmed in more recent films like this year’s Wonder Woman and last year’s Interstellar as well. There’s also popular favorites from the 80s and 90s like The Dark Crystal, Aliens and Ghostbusters.

Smart. Grab the oldies with classic old films and the Gen Xers with 80s films and snag the younguns with some more recent stuff. THAT’S how you program a festival!!

I will say this: it can be weird revisiting older films…they play differently as you age and as society changes. I just re-watched Vertigo a few weeks back and while I still admire the beauty of the film making, the actual story of Vertigo is really creepy…it’s basically about two men destroying two different women. It left a bad taste in my mouth despite the lushness of Robert Burks’ gorgeous cinematography and Bernard Herrmann’s evocative score and Saul Bass’s innovative title design and strong performances from Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes.  It’s a beautiful travel film too as the location filming captures the beauty of San Francisco circa 1958.

But, at the core of its dark heart, Vertigo is about the torture of Kim Novak. The last third of the film is actually difficult to watch now.

Hitchcock was a brilliant but sick bastard.

 

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About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.

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