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Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23! – The Age of Shatner
Scarecrow Video 5030 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesA special Silver Screeners edition with film critic Robert Horton William Shatner turned 92 in March, so most of us have spent our lives in the Age of Shatner, a strange and wondrous time of dramatic pauses, fantabulous musical interpretations, puckish self-spoofery, and Tribbles. Sure, he was never Oscar-nominated, but who else can claim, in… Continue Reading Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23! – The Age of Shatner
Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23! – Human-Environmental Interactions in Science Fiction Films
Scarecrow Video 5030 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesA lecture-discussion hosted by board member Mark Daniels Have you ever thought about how you interact with the environment? Even just going for a walk in your local park or driving your car to work is an example of human-environmental interaction. In this session of Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23, we will talk about the human-environmental… Continue Reading Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23! – Human-Environmental Interactions in Science Fiction Films
Scarecrow Video Presents Flying Saucer Cinema: The Thing from Another World (1951)
Scarecrow Video 5030 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesOnline Film Discussion Part of the Flying Saucer Cinema Series Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out! Based on the short story “Who… Continue Reading Scarecrow Video Presents Flying Saucer Cinema: The Thing from Another World (1951)
Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23! – Beyond HAL: Artificial Intelligence in Movies
Scarecrow Video 5030 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesA lecture-discussion hosted by film critic Robert Horton If you're not anxious about artificial intelligence, are you even paying attention? Ever since the robot went hoochy-coochy in the sci-fi classic Metropolis, movies have explored the possibilities and consequences of what happens when we create something that might be smarter and quicker than we are. But… Continue Reading Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23! – Beyond HAL: Artificial Intelligence in Movies
Scarecrow Academy Presents Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film
Scarecrow Video 5030 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesYear Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled "Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film," an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called "women's pictures." In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse… Continue Reading Scarecrow Academy Presents Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film
Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23! – Nine Things I Learned Watching Every Movie Ever Made in the Pacific Northwest
Scarecrow Video 5030 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesFILMLANDIA! A Movie Lover’s Guide to the Films and Television of Seattle, Portland, and the Great Northwest is coming out on April 18. To celebrate its launch, author David Schmader will be presenting a very special Zeitgeist session focusing on nine things he learned "watching every film ever made in the Pacific Northwest," including Regional… Continue Reading Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23! – Nine Things I Learned Watching Every Movie Ever Made in the Pacific Northwest
