Created by Hungarian director György Pálfi over three years of editing, Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen is a 90-minute collage that draws moments from more than 450 films—from Chaplin to Avatar—to tell a unified love story. The film is also, to quote Variety, “a rights clearance nightmare,” so huge thanks to SIFF for jumping through all the necessary hoops to bring this rare-as-hen’s-teeth movie event to the big screen for a whole week. See it now, because you might not get another chance. (SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, siff.net, 7 pm, $13, Feb 21–27)
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader