Wednesday, February 01, 2012

February 2012 Reviews


Amazon DVDs: Glee - The Concert [two-disc set] and Board-walk Empire - The Complete Second Season [multi-disc set].

Amazon Theatricals:
Salmon Fishing in Yemen (Lasse Hallström directs Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt), Declaration of War, and Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness.

Still playing (or yet to open): Coriolanus, The Descendants, Drive, Hugo, Into the Abyss, The Iron Lady, A Separation, and We Bought a Zoo.

Line Out: Music Films at the NWFF: Spring 2012, Benefit Al-
bum with Broadcast, Four Tet
, La Sera - "Please Be My Third Eye,"
Marisa Monte's Popular Brazilian Music, Field Music's Pop, Prog,
and Pomp
, Teen Daze - "Brooklyn Sunburn," Lux Covers Black
Tambourine
, Two New Punk Docs Ponder Authority: The Other
F Word
and Last Fast Ride - The Life, Love & Death of a Punk
Goddess, A Trip to the Moon with Air, Out of Sight with Fran-
kie Rose
, New Pack a.d. Tour and Video, Belltown Watch: This
Time It's Chic
, The Ordinary People of Ceremony, Cate Le
Bon: On Air, Stage, Street
, Soul Brother in Heaven and
Hell
, Girls and Boys in Bars and Stores, Revival: Black
Tambourine and Chickfactor
, Sleigh Bells/Black Ban-
anas at the Showbox
, The Lost Sounds of Jay Rea-
tard
, and The Wedding Present's Valentina.





Video Librarian: Janie Jones, Jess + Moss, The Doors - Mr.
Mojo Risin’
[Blu-ray], Queen - Days of Our Lives [Blu-ray]
, Trou-
badour Blues
, Last Fast Ride - The Life, Love and Death of a Punk
Goddess
, The Other F Word, Charlotte Rampling - The Look,
The Love We Make
[Blu], The Mighty Macs, Summer Holiday.



Endnote: Illustration by Jo Estey from Have You Ever
Had a Beard?
The film plays the Northwest Film Forum on Mon.,
3/5. The directors (Kathy Wolf and Pat Thomas) and participants
(Calvin Johnson and Chris Estey) will be in attendance.

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