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Wednesday
7:00AM
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Benefit at New Moon Cine-X Spotlight:
November 14th 6:45PM
The Loneliest Planet
The Loneliest Planet
On Wednesday, proceeds between 7:00AM & 2:30PM go to support the Olympia Film Festival!
What Was That 2011 / USA / 3 min / 35mm Made by the band Idaho Print Source: Jeff Martin
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Travelling Light 2012 / USA / 57 min / HDCam Director: Gina Telaroli Print Source: Gina Telaroli
The New Moon Cafe 113 4th Ave West at the corner of Columbia St.
An Amtrak train pulls out of Penn Station in New York City on a cold, sunny February morning. The train moves forward as the landscape changes—the East Coast giving way to the Midwest. Passengers fill their seats, the snow begins to fall, and the next train station is announced, all while the light continues shifting, bouncing, swelling and slouching into eventual darkness. This is an innovative, immersive experience described by Film Comment as “hypnotic” and “the most sensually pleasurable” film at this year’s Migrating Forms festival.
7:00PM (WA Center)
Smokin' Fish
2011 / USA/Germany / English, Georgian/ 113 min / 35mm Director: Julia Loktev Cast: Hani Furstenberg, Gael Garcia Bernal, Bidzina Gujabidze Print Source: IFC Films The adage that nothing puts a relationship to the test like traveling together is given a uniquely unsettling embodiment in The Loneliest Planet, the third feature by Russian-born Julia Loktev. Nica (Hani Furstenberg) and Alex (arthouse favorite Gael Garcia Bernal) are experienced travelers exploring the post-Soviet region of Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains before their upcoming wedding. Having secured the services of a local guide (real-life guide Bidzina Gujabidze), they set off to trek across a breathtakingly lovely land, where they are often the only humans in evidence. It is an idyllic pre-honeymoon of a trek and then... it all changes. Nothing is predetermined in this backpacking trip where sex, death, exile, love, and loyalty enter and leave like the weather.
2012 / USA / 81 min / Blu-ray Director: Luke Griswold-Turgis A tragicomic documentary, Smokin' Fish tells the story of one man's attempt to navigate the messy zone of collision between his culture and the modern world. Cory Mann is a quirky Tlingit businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau, Alaska. Hungry for smoked salmon and nostalgic for his childhood, he decides to spend a summer smoking fish at his family's traditional fish camp. The unusual story of his life and the untold history of his people interweave with the process of preparing traditional food, keeping the IRS off his back, and keep his business afloat. Edited by past festival guest Maureen Gosling (Blossoms of Fire.)