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Cinephelia in Seattle: Wong Kar-Wai; Carroll Ballard; and a Film From Fiji
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It's Easter weekend, and for a lot of us that means easter egg hunts,
church services, and dinner with the extended family. After stuffing yourself silly with chocolate bunnies, marshmallow
chicks and ham and listening to Uncle Bert's war stories for the 89,000th time, you'll be ready to escape -- and where
better to escape to than the movies? If you live in Seattle, count yourself lucky. You'll have more to choose from than
Scary Movie 4 or The Wild.
This week at UW brings us a showing of Academy Award-nominated Brazilian film City of God. Tuesday, April 18 @6PM, Electrical Engineering Auditorium. Also this week at UW:
Beautiful Boxer shows as part of International Queer Nights, Tuesday, April 18 @7PM, Q Center
ASUW A&E Movie Spring Series - every Weds. at the HUB Ballroom.
April 19 - Memoirs of a Geisha @5:30PM; Chronicles of Narnia @8PM
Review: On a Clear Day
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Focus Features », Cinematical Indie »
There are some films that adhere so closely to type that you know everything about them the moment the trailer has ended: characters, relationships, goals, dreams -- all are revealed in those two minutes. And you know, too, if this is a movie you want to see because it will move you to tears with its well-loved cliches, or if those same cliches will fill you with rage, and you need to avoid it like the plague. Gaby Dellal’s On a Clear Day is one of those films.
If you’ve seen The Full Monty, you’ve seen On a Clear Day. Hell, if you’ve seen Brassed Off, you’ve seen it. Or even Calendar Girls. Like those films, it’s just what it appears to be: a heart-warming story about someone who is hit with bad news, and hatches a crazy plan which, though he might not know it at the time, will restore not just his self-worth, but also the love of his drifting, distant family. It’s never surprising, but it doesn’t want to be; in fact, the whole thing is shamelessly tear-jerking and cliched, and also, impossibly, immensely likable.
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