May 27, 2000

The Seattle International Film Festival's Saturday matinee series, "Films 4 Families," makes a one-day-only stop at the Egyptian this afternoon for a 12:30 screening of Blake Edwards' "The Pink Panther." Peter Sellers played the bumbling Inspector Clouseau for the first time in this popular mid-1960s comedy, which led to a series of sequels in which Clouseau continued to demonstrate his cluelessness.The Seattle International Film Festival's Saturday matinee series, "Films 4 Families," makes a one-day-only stop at the Egyptian this afternoon for a 12:30 screening of Blake Edwards' "The Pink Panther." Peter Sellers played the bumbling Inspector Clouseau for the first time in this popular mid-1960s comedy, which led to a series of sequels in which Clouseau continued to demonstrate his cluelessness.

Here's today's festival schedule:
...3:30 p.m. - "Amargosa." Todd Robinson's fascinating, poetic, sometimes precious documentary about a New York dancer, Marta Beckett, who successfully resurrected a theater in a desert ghost town where "the arts were completely unknown to the locals."

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