Charlie Chaplin Movies

Charlie Chaplin

SIFF Cinema this week presents "Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve: The Films of Charlie Chaplin," a weeklong series including 10 feature-length Chaplin films and a collection of early short films. All screen in newly restored 35 mm prints, with many showing in two-for-one double features. The series begins Friday with the 1931 silent "City Lights," about the Little Tramp and a blind flower girl; other films include "The Gold Rush," "The Kid," "The Great Dictator," "The Circus," "Modern Times," "Limelight," "A King in New York," "Monsieur Verdoux" and "A Woman of Paris."
Passes for the full series are $70 ($40 for SIFF members); individual tickets are $10. SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer St., Seattle; for more information or to buy tickets, see www.siff.net or call 206-324-9996.
Three Dollar Bill Cinema continues its series "The Outlaw: Jean Genet on Film" with two screenings this week: the prison drama "Deathwatch" (1966), starring a pre-"Star Trek" Leonard Nimoy, on Saturday and "The Balcony" (1963), featuring Shelley Winters as a madam, on Thursday. Both are at 7 p.m. at Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle; tickets are $12 ($10 Three Dollar Bill members) and available at the door or online at www.threedollarbillcinema.org. For more information, see the website or call 206-323-4274.
Silent Movie Mondays at the Paramount continues with "The Crowd," King Vidor's 1928 silent drama about an ordinary American in New York City. Jim Riggs will provide live accompaniment on the theater's Mighty Wurlitzer organ. 7 p.m. Monday; tickets are $12 and available online at www.stgpresents.org, by phone at 877-784-4849 or at the box office at 911 Pine St., Seattle.
"The Grateful Dead Movie Event," which features footage from several 1974 Grateful Dead concerts as well as interviews with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, will screen Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at several local theaters, including Pacific Place, Oak Tree, Thornton Place, Alderwood and Kent Station. Tickets are $12.50 and available through www.fathomevents.com; see the website for additional information about the film.
The Chinese film "Mountain Patrol," about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in Tibet, will have a free screening (subtitled in English) Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Central Library's Microsoft Auditorium. 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle; for more information, see www.spl.org or call the library at 206-684-0849.
Metro Classics continues this week with the 1955 film noir "Night of the Hunter," starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters and directed by Charles Laughton. Wednesday only at 7 and 9:10 p.m., Metro, 4500 Ninth Ave. N.E., Seattle; 206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com.
And finally, this weekend's midnight movie at the Egyptian is Jim Henson and Frank Oz's 1982 fantasy "The Dark Crystal." Friday and Saturday, 805 E. Pine, Seattle; 206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com.
Sources: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com

Charlie Chaplin Movies