All That Jazz
A special screening of Bob Fosse’s kinda/sorta autobiography, about a perfectionist choreographer who has to decide whether he wants to live a longer life, or whether he’d prefer to keep making musicals, popping pills, and fucking a steady stream of dancers. Featuring a pre-film presentation from Oregon Ballet Theatre and artistic director Kevin Irving. Hollywood Theatre.
Bad Moms
Since Bad Moms is a film about women made by the men who wrote The Hangover, it’s motherhood through bro-colored glasses: Drinking sequences, the word “vagina,” and blunt-force impact are mined for laughs, and just as modern moms are hamstrung by a lack of paid maternity leave and gender double standards, the film’s potential for revenge-flick fun or bawdy escapism is curbed through shallow sentimentality. KJERSTIN JOHNSON Various Theaters.
Bending the Bard: Cinematic Twists on Shakespeare
A special film series commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, featuring some of the most interestingly skewed adaptations of his work in cinema history, including acclaimed films from directors Akira Kurosawa, Julie Taymor, Laurence Olivier, Gus Van Sant, and more. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.