Edi
Poland, 2002 (100 min.)

Dir. Piotr Trzaskalski

Horribly, terribly depressing. Edi collects junk with his best friend Jurek, spending what little money he makes on rotgut and books. It is a livable existence, but when the sister of two local hoods fingers Edi as the father of her illegitimate child, Edi's already sad life is turned to complete hell. Beautifully made, it is nonetheless recommended only for those seeking encouragement for suicide. (BRADLEY STEINBACHER)
Pacific Place Mon May 26 1:45 pm

Pacific Place Tues May 27 9:30 pm

The Education of Gore Vidal
USA, 2002 (85 min.)

Dir. Deborah DicksonProlific filmmaker Dickson turns her focus on prolific American intellectual Vidal. With interviews conducted at his Italian sea cliff home, Vidal rakes the Establishment over the coals and discusses his annoyance with everything from left to right. Brdwy Perf Hall Sat May 24 6:30 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Mon May 26 1:45 pm

El Bonaerense
Argentina, 2002 (105 min.)

Dir. Pablo Trapero

The director of Crane World returns with this tale of a young crook whose fortunes change when he is nepotized into the nail-tough Buenos Aires police department.
Pacific Place Wed June 4 7:00 pm

Pacific Place Tues June 10 1:00 pm

* Elina *
Sweden/Finland, 2002 (80 min.)

Dir. Klaus HaroHoly shit! This movie is saturated with emotion. The score is over the top, the photography deliriously emotional. So is the lonely child, Elina, at the center of its plot, who is grieving in the worst way over of the death of her father. There is no clarity in the film, no reserve. It just lets it all out at a hysterical pitch. (CHARLES MUDEDE)

Harvard Exit Tues June 10 4:45 pm

Pacific Place Thurs June 12 7:00 pm

* The Embalmer *
Italy, 2002 (101 min.)

Dir. Matteo Garrone

Cast Ernesto Mahieux, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Elisabetta Rocchetti

Boy-meets-girl-meets-dwarf set in a seaside town near Naples. He loves animals, she loves trouble, and the dwarf is a gay taxidermist. No one is sure what this means until something really, really bad happens. Based on a true story.
Egyptian Tues June 10 7:00 pm

Pacific Place Sun June 15 9:30 pm

* The Event *
Canada, 2002 (105 min.)

Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Cast Parker Posey, Sarah Polley, Don McKellar

Posey plays a New York district attorney who investigates a suspicious suicide in the gay community. Flashbacks reveal that the moral issues surrounding the man's death are much more than she could have ever imagined.
Harvard Exit Sat June 14 9:30 pm

Harvard Exit Sun June 15 1:45 pm

Ever Since the World Ended
USA, 2002 (78 min.)

Dir. Calum Grant, Joshua Atosh Litle

A post-apocalyptic mockumentary on the survivors of the Kotto plague, which decimated the Bay Area population to 186 people 12 years ago. You people have such short memories.
Brdwy Perf Hall Wed May 28 2:00 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Thurs May 29 9:30 pm

Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth
Romania, 2002 (93 min.)

Dir. Sinisa Dragin

There isn't much to get excited about in this derivative tale of violent masculinity, but Dragin has a fantastic way with images and a penchant for the surreal (incongruous as it may seem here) that might make him a director to watch. And then there's that wonderfully awkward, melodious title. (Adam Hart)
Harvard Exit Thurs June 5 4:45 pm

Harvard Exit Sun June 8 9:30 pm

The Eye
2002, Thailand/Hong Kong (100 min.)

Dir. Danny & Oxide Pang

Though not technically a documentary on Lasik eye surgery, this film offers a revealing glimpse of the horrors that may result.
Egyptian Mon June 2 9:30 pm

Harvard Exit Fri June 6 4:00 pm


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* G-Sale *
USA, 2002 (87 min.)

Dir. Randy Nargi

Such a drag to give away G-Sale's game--ideally you should just sit down and be taken in by this Christopher Guest-worthy mockumentary, which turns a deadpan gaze on the weird, albeit benign, world of creatures who haunt garage sales throughout the Northwest community of Bogwood. The lesbian operators of a "retro-modern antique" boîte are faves, but Seattle treasure Ted D'Arms' daffy incarnation of Dick Nickerson, retired '60s sitcom star, takes the cake! (KATHLEEN MURPHY)
Egyptian Sun May 25 11:30 am

Garage Days
Australia, 2002 (105 min.)

Dir. Alex Proyas

You might think Proyas is all about the dark and the dreary (he directed Dark City and The Crow), but his latest offering is a fizzy, bright comedy about the misadventures of a garage-rock band in Sydney.
Pacific Place Sat May 31 9:30 pm

Gasoline
Italy, 2002

Dir. Monica Lisa Stambrini

Arty young lesbian flick where the not-so-hot chick's mom gets accidentally killed by the Jennifer Beals-looking chick and they run around in circles trying to hide the body and get chased by fucked-up ravers and a pretty cool song ends the whole movie. (JENNIFER MAERZ)
Harvard Exit Sat May 31 1:45 pm

Harvard Exit Sun June 1 9:30 pm

* ThE Gift
USA, 2002 (62 min.)

Dir. Louise Hogarth

This documentary about "bug-chasing," the practice of deliberately contracting HIV, and "gift-giving," the practice of deliberately passing the virus on to others, is sure to provoke and unsettle. Perhaps more disturbing will be the director's exposure of the perverse way HIV and AIDS are affected by anti-AIDS campaigning.
Brdwy Perf Hall Sat May 24 1:45 pm

The Girl from Paris
France, 2002 (103 min.)

Dir. Christian Carion
Cast Mathilde Seigner, Michel Serrault

An absolutely unobjectionable, utterly predictable chronicle of the grudging friendship that develops between a crusty old dairy farmer and the gorgeous young Amazon from Paris who buys out his holdings in the picturesque Rhones-Alps. There's some gratuitously graphic animal slaughter to lend barnyard authenticity to the proceedings, but absent genuine dramatic tension or any discernible chemistry between veteran Serrault and buff Seigner, this pretty movie plays like Gallic Muzak. (Kathleen Murphy )
Pacific Place Mon June 2 7:00 pm

Pacific Place Wed June 11 2:00 pm

Golden Swallow
Hong Kong/China, 1968 (108 min.)

Dir. Zhang Che
Cast Zhang Peipei, Wang Yu

Old-school chop-socky. This sequel to Come Drink with Me is about heroine Golden Swallow (Zhang Peipei, who played Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), who is accused of going on a bloodthirsty rampage against some bad guys, and her anguished old beau, Silver Roc.
Harvard Exit Sun May 25 1:45 pm

The Good Old Naughty Days
France, 2002 (67 min.)

Dir. Michel Reilhac

Time heals all wounds and turns pornography into high art. This painstakingly restored compilation of silent French porn movies made between 1905 and 1930 will make you wish they'd never invented video.
Egyptian Thurs May 29 9:30 pm

A Great Wonder
USA, 2003 (65 min.)

Dir. Kim Shelton

In a local documentary with themes that reach way beyond our shores, three Sudanese immigrants, also part of the group referred to as "The Lost Boys of Sudan," arrive in Seattle to make their new lives. The stories of these three young men, who survived brutality, starvation, disease, and death in their war-torn country, are sure to inspire.
Egyptian Mon May 26 11:30 am


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South Korea, 2002 (107 min.)

Dir. Lee Jong-hyuk

A copycat killer starts offing women in the style of the jailed psychotic Shin-yun. Two detectives, who sound suspiciously like Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt in Seven, think the murders are linked to the imprisoned crackpot. Pacific Place Thurs May 29 7:00 pm
Cinerama Sat June 14 6:30 pm

Handcuff King
Finland, 2002 (87 min.)

Dir. Arto Koskinen

If you're unfamiliar with post-WWII Swedish-Finnish relations, then what happened to me will certainly happen to you: you will find this film dull and rather nonsensical. Even so, it's hard to see how this profound boredom would be dispelled if suddenly the plot revolving around the boy who is obsessed with Houdini were elucidated. But really, do Swedes and Fins hate each other so much that a whole film can be based on it? It's just hard for me to accept that. (CHARLES MUDEDE)
Egyptian Wed June 11 4:45 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Fri June 13 6:30 pm

Hard Goodbyes: My Father
Greece/Germany, 2002 (113 min.)

Dir. Penny Panayotopoulou

As the title states in no uncertain terms, this film delves into the pain of losing a parent. Ten-year-old Elias anxiously awaits the 1969 moon landing, but instead receives the crushing reality of his traveling-salesman father's death. Harvard Exit Mon June 2 7:00 pm
Brdwy Perf Hall Wed June 4 4:45 pm

The Hard Word
Australia/UK, 2002 (102 min.)

Dir. Scott Roberts
Cast Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Joel Edgerton

Rent The Killing before wasting your time on this witless, muddled heist film, in which a sleazeball lawyer, a couple of dirty cops, and three bank-robbing brothers practice double- and triple-crosses on one another--while "smart" brother Dale's blond-bombshell wife heats up for any stud who smells like more money. Pearce glares, Griffiths smirks, bad guys sneer, and a couple of babes bare their breasts. (ANDY SPLETZER)

Pacific Place Thurs June 5 9:30 pm
Pacific Place Sat June 7 9:30 pm

The Heart of Me
UK, 2002 (96 min.)

Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Cast Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams

The Echoing Grove, title of the 1953 British novel from which this glossy period drama was adapted, signposts Heart's emotional locale: heavy-breathing, sub-Merchant Ivory women's fiction. Sisters, one all hot and bohemian, the other repressed and too-civilized, adore the same man, a poor soul who ping-pongs from one woman to another until you want to scream. (Kathleen Murphy)
Pacific Place Fri June 6 9:30 pm

Pacific Place Fri June 13 1:45 pm

The Hebrew Hammer
USA, 2003 (85 min.)

Dir. Jon Kesselman
Cast Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick

The blank-sploitation genre scrapes yet another barrel to focus on the Jews. The film stars Goldberg (who is great, let's be fair) as an Orthodox superhero who wants to save Hanukkah... from what? Kids who want Christmas trees instead of menorahs and demand all their presents at once?
Egyptian Fri June 6 midnight

Hidden in Plain Sight
USA, 2003 (71 min.)

Dir. John Smihula
Cast Martin Sheen (narrator)

The School of the Americas is no UC Santa Barbara. It's a U.S.-taxpayer-funded paramilitary school in Georgia that teaches killing and torture techniques used to topple Latin American regimes.
Brdwy Perf Hall Sat June 7 9:30 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Sun June 8 1:45 pm

House of Fools
Russia, 2003 (104 min.)

Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky

Every night the mental patients gather to watch the Bryan Adams train pass by. Yep, you read that right. If only the movie could have maintained that level of surrealism. Instead it's a predictable story that compares the insanity of war with every insane-asylum stereotype you can think of. Making a bad situation worse, the only Adams song they could afford is the one from Don Juan DeMarco. (Andy Spletzer)
Brdwy Perf Hall Sun June 1 9:30 pm

Egyptian Fri June 6 6:30 pm

The Housekeeper
France, 2002 (88 min.)

Dir. Claude Berri

Staying true to the sexy-French-maid concept that keeps Halloween costumers in business, this comedy centers on an older man who develops feelings for his young housekeeper. The affection starts, of course, after a midlife crisis stemming from his wife skipping out and the messy house that follows.
Pacific Place Sat May 31 6:30 pm

Pacific Place Wed June 4 4:45 pm

* Hukkle *
Hungary, 2002 (75 min.)

Dir. György Pàlfi
Cast Ági Margittay, Eszter Onodi, Atilla Kaszàs

Nearly wordless, the movie drops you right into a small, picturesque Hungarian town, and then starts observing things. It's the ultimate festival film in that it is foreign and nearly plotless, has a strange sense of humor, and is not the type of movie that usually gets distribution.
Harvard Exit Sun June 1 6:30 pm

Pacific Place Tues June 3 4:45 pm

The Hunter and the Hunted
Japan, 2003 (110 min.)

Dir. Izuru Narushima

This psychological thriller pits a hapless career detective against a wily mobster. Catching the mobster Neko makes Jin's career. Then Neko is released and the cat becomes the mouse!
Egyptian Wed June 11 7:00 pm

Egyptian Fri June 13 4:00 pm


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I Capture the Castle
UK, 2002

Dir. Tim Fywell
Cast Rose Byrne, Henry Thomas, Tara Fitzgerald

This is one girls-coming-of-age film that anyone can enjoy. Two sisters live with their family in a remote English castle. Their romantic prospects are severely limited until two American brothers inherit their land. The star of the movie is good old-fashioned repression, and it is refreshing to see the more traditional happy ending replaced by unresolved longing.

(Andy Spletzer)
Egyptian Sat June 7 6:30 pm

Cinerama Wed June 11 4:45 pm

I Murder Seriously
Mexico, 2003 (84 min.)

Dir. Antonio Urrutia

Another Mexican orgasm-murder farce--this one features the antics of a nutty prostitute-killer who slays with love. A worn-out cop has the unenviable task of quizzing a dirty priest who holds the secret of the fatal O, but in order to solve the killings the cop must join in the sacred trust to preserve the method of the murderous nngg!
Egyptian Thurs June 12 9:45 pm

Harvard Exit Sun June 15 9:30 pm

I Not Stupid
Singapore, 2002 (106 min.)

Dir. Jack Neo

Singapore is no place to be a kid, and Kok Pin, Boon Hock, and Terry are chafing under their country's oppressive culture. These boys hate school and their parents, but wouldn't it be a crime if they turned to "Western-style" fast-food chicken instead of Singapore's delicious cultural stew? Modernity is a hydra!
Brdwy Perf Hall Thurs June 12 4:45 pm

Brdwy Perf Hall Sat June 14 9:30 pm

* I, Taraneh, Am Fifteen *
Iran, 2002 (112 min.)

Dir. Rasul Sadr-Ameli

This award-winning film from Tehran tells the tale of a young woman who is duped into marriage by a faithless cad and then abandoned, pregnant, when her husband hears the German disco music calling his name.
Pacific Place Sat May 31 4:00 pm

Harvard Exit Wed June 4 7:00 pm

I'm the Father
Germany, 2002 (98 min.)

Dir. Dani Levy

A darker, German Kramer vs. Kramer. Impulsive, chaotic Marco and long-suffering Melanie split up after Marco turns super-ugly during a particularly bad argument. Melanie begins divorce proceedings that severely limit Marco's visitations with their son. Marco ends up doing some very stupid things to spend time with Benny, which leads him to seriously question his path. (SHANNON GEE)
Pacific Place Mon June 9 7:00 pm

Pacific Place Sat June 14 1:45 pm

* In July *
Germany, 200 (99 min.)

Dir. Fatih Akin
Cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul

Stop me if you've heard this male fantasy before: A nerdy but not ugly guy is secretly loved by this hot alternachick who he's never met. It takes the whole movie for him to realize he loves her too. In this version, he travels from Germany to Istanbul in search of the "wrong" woman before his discovery. (ANDY SPLETZER)Egyptian Thurs June 5 7:00 pm

Harvard Exit Sat June 7 1:45 pm

* In This World *
UK, 2002 (88 min.)

Dir. Michael Winterbottom

Filmed in Afghanistan during the American bombing, this film blurs the line between feature and documentary as two young Afghanis make the trek between Peshawar and London in wartime. Partly shot on hidden digital cameras, the film's stars actually made the journey.
Cinerama Fri June 13 6:30 pm

Egyptian Sat June 14 1:45 pm

Infernal Affairs
Hong Kong, 2002 (100 min.)

Dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak

This cop-thriller features sexy performances, intertwined destinies, and betrayal as the underworld burbles up into the harsh night.
Cinerama Mon June 9 9:30 pm

Egyptian Sat June 14 4:00 pm

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Hong Kong/China, 1972 (90 min.)

Dir. Chu Yuan

It's like Police Academy, except with Chinese hookers, and it's not supposed to be funny. This film replaces Steve Guttenberg's raffish recruit with a lesbian madam who kidnaps virgins and forces them into sex slavery.
Harvard Exit Sun June 1 1:45 pm

The Invisible Children
Colombia/Venezuela, 2001 (90 min.)

Dir. Lisandro Duque Naranjo

This family film tells the loveable story of three adorable eight-year-olds who experiment with black magic at the suggestion of a con artist.
Pacific Place Sat May 24 11:30 am