Arts & Culture
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Movie Mondays: Free Screenings of Award-nominated Films
Now that the 2013/2014 award season has wrapped up, it’s time to catch up on all of the winning and nominated films! To alleviate the long hold lists for several of these titles, the Northgate Branch is showing some of this year’s notable and popular films on Sundays through May. Each free film screening starts… Continue reading
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And We All Fall Down
We stumble, we fall, we dust ourselves off, and it’s not at all graceful. When it comes to movies I very rarely feel as if the characters portrayed could ever be real or even relate to me. They are too perfect, too nice, too everything…In my opinion there isn’t a woman out there that hasn’t… Continue reading
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Movie Mondays: Hollywood Classics at the University Branch
All month long the University Branch is highlighting classic Hollywood genres with free screenings every Saturday afternoon! Join us at 2:00 PM for these upcoming features. Did I mention FREE POPCORN? Continue reading
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TEEN MOVIE TICKETS GIVEAWAY!
Divergent Trivia = Free Movie! FOR TEENS: WIN A CHANCE TO SEE DIVERGENT (& CAST) BEFORE IT HITS THEATRES! Answer this trivia question & provide an e-mail address FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN! Continue reading
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Movie Mondays: When the Oscars Get it Right
The 86th annual Academy Awards are imminent. The Oscars are the Super Bowl for film nerds and they can certainly cause just as much anguish and frustration as when <INSERT FAVORITE TEAM HERE> loses. Looking back over the Academy’s track record can be a dismal experience. There’s the year Driving Miss Daisy beat out Do… Continue reading
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Last chance to hear: the ’90s
Here are a couple of my favorite albums from the ‘90s which, thanks to the wear of time and the tides of fashion, have only one copy remaining in the library’s collection. Place a hold on one of these today…they’re definitely worth the wait! Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) Stereolab marries wonky vintage electronic bleeps and bloops to a… Continue reading
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Movie Mondays: 2013’s Other Black Films
2013 has been called a banner year for Black film, with the critical and commercial success of 12 Years a Slave, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Fruitvale Station and 42. But, as Slate’s Aisha Harris pointed out in her blog, not all Black films deal with the struggle for civil rights or battles… Continue reading
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Local Tunes, Part One
Let’s take a minute to represent Seattle and the immediate Pacific Northwest! We’re all one big family with lots of talent. Lucky for us, the Seattle Public Library seems to have noticed. Here are three local albums currently in our catalog: People Eating People (Seattle, WA), People Eating People Continue reading
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Movie Mondays: Don’t Judge a Romance by most Rom-Coms
2013 was a year of great debates – about health care, gay marriage, recreational marijuana….and whether Love Actually is a good or a bad movie. It seems that for every person who defends its poignant charm, there is someone to deride it for its treacly sentimentality. In an effort… Continue reading
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Movie Mondays: A Chaplin Centennial
One hundred years ago this week, cinema’s most iconic and enduring character, Charlie Chaplin’s the Little Tramp, was born. On February 7, 1914 theatregoers were given their first taste of the lovable, laughable vagabond as he wrought havoc in Kid Auto Races in Venice. Two days later saw the release of Mabel’s Strange Predicament, a… Continue reading
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Movie Mondays: Happy Birthday, David Lynch!
Director, artist, musician and all around good guy David Lynch turns 68 today. Lynch is indisputably one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema, a man whose style has often been aped but never replicated. No other director can so often scare the pants off me and wow me with intense beauty, often in the same… Continue reading
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Cold Weather Music, Part Two: Me Time Edition
With the holiday season coming to its end, I’m sure we’re all feeling a bit over-socialized. Parties, gatherings, reunions… And now a new year is coming on, and we all have a bit of thinking to do – a little planning and little resolution-making. Time to take a little “me time” and get, well, deep.… Continue reading
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Movie Mondays: Why so Blue?
Is there another color that has figured so prominently in a movie title? Possibly, but I can’t remember the last time three good movies with the same color in the name came out at the same time. Continue reading
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Romantic Wednesdays: Movies for the New Year
Check out these romantic movies that feature the classic combination of true love and a new year. When Harry Met Sally Continue reading
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Movie Mondays: While you’re waiting…
While you’re waiting for Nebraska, check out director Alexander Payne’s first feature, Citizen Ruth (1996). Laura Dern is Ruth Stoops, an irresponsible gas-huffer who finds herself pregnant for the fifth time – and at the center of a tug-of-war between pro-life and pro-choice groups when a judge (Kurtwood Smith) orders her to get an abortion. This wicked… Continue reading