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It’s a mid-20th-century weekend for Seattle film. As Chris mentioned yesterday, the Northwest Film Forum is showing Rebel Without a Cause (1955) tonight, with screenwriter Stewart Stern in attendance. This film, along with oh-so-dreamy James Dean, helped name teen angst as we know it today. It defined a new set of American values for a […]

Alexandra Bush
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It’s a mid-20th-century weekend for Seattle film. As Chris mentioned yesterday, the Northwest Film Forum is showing Rebel Without a Cause (1955) tonight, with screenwriter Stewart Stern in attendance. This film, along with oh-so-dreamy James Dean, helped name teen angst as we know it today. It defined a new set of American values for a new generation.

Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot
Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot

MGMT rocked last year’s Block Party. Photo by Douglas Bair. Music fest junkies, rejoice. Today we bring you not only Bumbershoot’s full lineup, but Capitol Hill Block Party’s as well. The full listing of who’s playing and when: Friday, July 22: Ghostland Observatory, the Head and the Heart, Ra Ra Riot, Thurston Moore, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Fresh Espresso, Hollyhood feat: Tigerbeat, Yuck, F*cked Up, Cults, Woods, The Fresh and Onlys, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, THEESatisfaction, Brothers From Another/Kung Fu Grip, Shad, Sol, Craft Spells, Skarp, Boat, Grave Babies, “The Rolling Stones”, Absolute Monarchs, Constant Lovers, Elephant Rider, Yarn Owl, and the Wheelies. Saturday, July 23: TV On the Radio, Les Savy Fav, Best Coast, Handsome Furs, Telekinesis, Fences, Champagne Champagne, Comeback feat: Ononos, DJ Porq, and Colby B, the Young Evils, Cold Cave, Austra, Ravenna Woods, the Lumineers, Eleanor Friedberger, Lovesick Empire, He Whose Ox is Gored, Baths, Beat Connection, Teen Daze, Painted Palms, Seapony, Lovers, Witch Gardens, Yuni in Taxco, Hausu, Akimbo, Nazca Lines, Virgin, Don’t Talk to the Cops, Reporter, Slow Dance, and Sports. Sunday, July 24: Explosions in the Sky, the Cave Singers, Battles, the Posies, My Goodness, Papercuts, Pink Mountaintops, Federation X, Loch Lomond, Grynch, Campfire Ok, Lumerians, Lisa Dank, Grand Hallway, Lake, Cold Showers, Dunes, Virgin Islands, Land of Pines, the Pharmacy, the First Times, Spurm, Tacocat, Buster Blue, Spaceneedles, and a Closing Party featuring Mad Rad, Mash Hall, Metal Chocolates Darwin, and Beat Connection DJ set. Capitol Hill Block Party runs July 22–24. Tickets are $27.50 for a single day ticket—on sale Friday—or $75 for a three-day pass, available at capitolhillblockparty.strangertickets.com.

If you’ve had enough teen angst (or enough American values), get a very different vision of the ’50s at SIFF Cinema. They’ll be a continent away in the old world, on French holiday. Continuing the Les Affairs de Monsieur Hulot series, they will screen actor-director Jacques Tati’s first M. Hulot movie, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953). With his bouncing gait and too-short trousers, M. Hulot (a longtime on-screen persona for Tati) bumbles through a whimsical world where ping pong can steal a woman’s heart, and little children can turn an ice cream cone upside down without losing their precious cargo. Though not nearly as clean or stylish as the later Hulot movies (which ran at SIFF Cinema last week), M. Hulot’s Holiday is a vaudevillian romp through a time and place that the modern world has left far behind. Tati, a notorious Luddite, sees the world through glasses of nostalgia. Forget plot and immerse yourself in a charming, silly little world that passes by like moving postcards from an imaginary past. Bonus: It’s set on a beach, and really, who couldn’t use a summer holiday right about now? Rebel plays tonight only at Northwest Film Forum, 8pm. M. Hulot’s Holiday screens nightly at 7:45 at SIFF Cinema through Monday night, with daytime shows on Saturday and Sunday.









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