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Visit Scarecrow Video!

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Scarecrow Video, just off of Roosevelt & 50th in the U District in Seattle has EVERY title! Ask any one of the employees as you walk in for any new release, genre, director, obscure indie or international title and their degree in film studies will register beneath the lenses, and a pointer finger will raise to the exact location of that movie. Beware. When I say EVERY movie…I mean it. Many are not for young eyes…or mine. But go.

If you remember seeing The Hunt for Red October on an old gigantic lazer disc and you’ve ever wanted to relive that experience, you can rent players there. Even VHS players (what are those, right?), and projectors for that backyard film fest. Remember that one that you saw with your mom on Turner Classics when you were little that just haunts you? They’ve got it. What’s that one Wes Anderson movie? It’s there, and they know.

So, go! Visit Scarecrow Video and support a local legend. If you have out of town guests coming in, show them Seattle and take them to Scarecrow. Let them pick the movie or take them to the Italian film section and rent Life is Beautiful for a lovely and memorable evening.  Say Hi to Kevin for me while you’re there. Shake his hand. He’s a good man.

I heart Scarecrow Video!

THE FALL (2006)

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For film lovers. For art lovers. For those of you who have ever fallen in love with a story and its teller.

The Fall speaks in color and beauty – transcending traditional filmmaking. This is an art film. Each scene a painting in itself, this film is a Salvador Dali come to life. The director, Tarsem, offers a magnificent opening sequence (as featured: http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/01/09/the-fall/). Genius. The rest of the film is shot in over twenty beautiful countries.


The motif of “falling” is the resplendent repetitive notion of lives in motion, making mistakes, sinning, falling from our pedistals of chance and fate and grace. It’s a question. It’s a fear. It’s a risk that, once taken, affects the entire rest of your life. It’s about life and living it. It’s about family and fathers. It’s about loving someone enough to stick around for the rest of the story. It’s the retelling of a silent picture as seen in the mind of a little girl. The teller (Lee Pace) becomes her hero and her friend. The percieved quest is one of external healing; the actual is internal as the listener becomes the unexpected hero to save her dear friend.

This film IS found in the horror genre for some disturbing violence. But as I promised Andrew that I would, I’m letting you know now that it ends well.

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)

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I spent the loveliest week in Paris this afternoon. No, I know, I have always wanted to go there. It was perfect – just as I’d imagined it. Who? Oh, I was there with some of my favorites like Owen Wilson, Michael Sheen (no relation to Charlie, no), Woody Allen, and Adrien Brody.

T.S. Eliot, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and a few of their artistic companions joined us, Matisse, Dali, Degas, Gauguin & Picasso to name a few.

Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, & even Alison Pill & Kathy Bates were there.

 

We all swooned and danced to Cole Porters tunes and fell in love under the same sparkling pink lights lining the Seine.

I shall always agree with Gertrude Stein who said, “America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”

“turn and face the strange”…we have moved

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A transition has been made– splattersfilmblog.blogspot.com is now splatteronfilm.wordpress.com (woot.)

It’s probably inconvenient, but it’s awesome here.

Don’t hate.

Love, Splatter