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Local & Repertory • AMERICAN COMEDY CLASSICS SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 23.
BENNY & JOON From 1993, this gentle family tale of
mental illness was shot in around Spokane. Mary Stuart Masterson plays the troubled Juniper, Aidan Quinn is her protective brother, and Johnny Depp makes like he’s Buster Keaton. (PG) Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., 686-6684, central-cinema.com, $6-$8, July 12-16, 7 p.m. BOOGIE NIGHTS Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (1997) begins in 1978, when the new sexuality has hardened and been commodified in the porn industry. The film follows the fortunes of Eddie (Mark Wahlberg), a dishwasher with “something wonderful in his pants.” Anderson masterfully handles Eddie’s journey through the age of entitlement, capturing the recklessness and invincibility of the coke-tinged times. But once Dirk Diggler—as Eddie is renamed—finds his new family, he must leave them behind. In a culture that has a hard time dealing with sexual freedom, Anderson has made a film that takes an unflinching look at the business of sexuality. And what’s more, he neither punishes nor rewards his character for their experiments in liberation. (R) CLAIRE DEDERER Central Cinema, $6-$8, July 12-17, 9:30 p.m. CARLITO’S WAY Local film-appreciation society The 20/20 Awards presents the 1993 Brian De Palma gangster flick, starring Al Pacino as the ex-con trying to go straight. Sean Penn sports a memorable hairdo as his crooked lawyer. (R) Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., 523-3935, grandillusioncinema.org, $5-$8, Thu., July 11, 6:30 p.m. CZECH THAT FILM This seven-film sampler of contemporary Czech cinema includes at least one solid pick, seen at SIFF ‘12: Jan Hrebejk’s Innocence (2 p.m. Sat.), which takes a sneaky, indirect approach to the lurid allegations of child sexual abuse. The accused party, Tomás (Ondrej Vetchý), is a respected orthopedic surgeon with a complicated family life. In his household are an elderly parent, a teen daughter, his wife, her mentally disabled son from a prior marriage, and a sister-in-law. And his wife’s ex is a cop who investigates sex crimes. Tomás, handsome and prosperous, has it all; the cop, an old friend whose wife Tomás stole, has nothing but his miserable case files. Of course he’s assigned to investigate when 14-year-old patient Olinka (Anna Linhartová) says she had consensual sex with her doctor (the Czech age of consent is 15). Innocence is a wrong-man thriller, and it’s very good at that level. But where it’s truly superior is in the slow dissection of Dr. Kotva’s household—like a detective story written by Chekhov. See siff.net for full schedule and details. (NR) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., 324-9996, $5-$10, July 12-14. DAZED & CONFUSED It’s 1976 all over again in Richard Linklater’s 1993 pot-hazed high-school confidential. Yet beneath the cannabis clouds there’s surprising insight into the inner lives of slackers, stoners, and jocks. Throughout, Linklater’s laid-back observational style reveals all the longing, languor, and halfunderstood notions of self that define what it means to be 18. And you can’t beat Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion.” Keep your (red) eyes peeled for Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, and Matthew McConaughey, whose muscle-car Romeo memorably declares, “That’s what I like about these high school girls: I keep getting older; they stay the same age.” Somehow Linklater almost makes that seem poignant. (R) BRIAN MILLER Harvard Exit, 807 E. Roy St., 323-0587, landmarktheatres.com, $10, Tue., July 16, 7 p.m. FREMONT OUTDOOR MOVIES SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 23.
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Seattle Landmark’s Guild 45th Theatre (206) 547-2127
Seattle regal Meridian 16 (800) FANDANGO #808
SIFF is honoring the recently deceased James Gandolfini with a double-feature. First is the Coen brothers’ rather chilly 2001 noir exercise The Man Who Wasn’t There. Second is 2009’s In the Loop, made by the creative team behind the BBC’s political satire The Thick of It, with a few Yanks added to the cast (Gandolfini plays the Colin Powell role). Thus, the lead-up to the Iraq War—though Iraq is never named—becomes a hyperbolic transatlantic political farce. As directed by Armando Iannucci, government process becomes madness. The movie is talk talk talk,
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