SGN May 31, 2013 - Section 2

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Seattle Gay News

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 22, Volume 41, May 31, 2013

Matt Carr

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer Based on the novel by Henry James, the new film version of What Maisie Knew updates the story to modern-day New York and concerns itself with a six-yearold girl (Onata Aprile) who suddenly finds herself at the center of an ugly divorce between her aging rock-star mother, Susanna (Julianne Moore), and her art-dealer father, Beale (Steve Coogan). Along the way she earns two new adult influences in her life when her parents remarry, growing close to her dad’s new wife, Margo (Joanna Vanderham), and her mom’s current beau, Lincoln (Alexander Skarsgård), fairly quickly. The movie is something of a revelation, as directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, working with writers Nancy Doyne and Carroll Cartwright, achieve an elegant emotional ebullience I found positively mesmerizing. In town for this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, McGehee and Siegel sat down with me to chat about their film and its production. Here are some of the highlights from that conversation. Sara Michelle Fetters: You usually write and direct your own projects. What was it about this particular script that attracted you? Why make this movie? Scott McGehee: It’s interesting – we read quite a few screenplays, mainly when we’re procrastinating when we’re doing our own writing – but David had been given this particular script by a friend of ours. We’d been told about it, that it was this custody battle, divorce, told from a kid’s point of view thing, and his reaction see maisie page 28

(l - r) David Siegel, Onata Aprile, Alexander Skarsgård, and Scott McGehee

by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer

SASQUATCH! MUSIC FESTIVAL THE GORGE AMPHITHEATRE May 24-27 The annual Sasquatch! Music Festival, held each Memorial Day weekend at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, shares more than just a silly moniker with its fabled namesake from the Pacific Northwest. The festival is sprawling, more than a little hairy, and in its finest moments – when music and topography meet in perfect synchronicity – it’s the stuff of legend. A four-day music bonanza topped with camping out in the middle of nowhere is not for the faint of heart, Macklemore on stage at the Sasquatch Music Festival

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Sasquatch Music Festival

by Jessica Price SGN A&E Writer

FELA! PARAMOUNT THEATRE Through June 2 Many people in the United States may not know the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti (193897), but the story of his music as a representation of his country’s struggle is nothing short of vibrant – full of energy and highly infectious, it appeals to just about everyone, whether they are familiar with contemporary African music styles. The musical based on his life and work is more than a story of how Afrobeat came to America. It’s a story of courage, determination, and acknowledgment of one’s ancestral line that gives the strength to rise above all challenges. Adesola Osakalumi in FELA!

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