Woody Allen’s “Cafe Society” to Screen at Seattle Festival

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Seattle will host the North American premiere of “Café Society”, Woody Allen’s forty-seventh feature-length film. The 42nd Annual Seattle International Film Festival begins on May 19th at 7 PM in the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, if that means anything to Seattle-savvy readers. The festival is rolling out all the stops for its opening film, with a range of tickets at an array of prices (starting at $45, reaching $100). General admission will get you access to the screening and events afterwards, while the priciest tickets buy a “red carpet experience”, complete with exclusive after parties, valet service and catered snacks.

“Café Society” will also open the Cannes Film Festival on May 11th, crowning Allen as the only director to have three of their films open the prestigious festival. Despite debuting internationally, “Café Society” is most closely related to “Irrational Man” and “Fading Gigolo” as one of Allen’s few contemporary movies set in the states.

The movie is a romantic comedy and period piece starring Jesse Eisenberg as an equally jumpy Woody Allen-prototype. Also featured are the familiar faces of Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Parker Posey, Judy Davis and Blake Lively. The plot reads like a semi-autobiographical fantasy of Allen’s as it focuses on a screenwriter enraptured by 1930’s Hollywood while bound to his own repressed sense of self and rowdy Jewish family back in the slums of New York City.

“Café Society” will be released by Amazon to theaters in the summer and make its final home Amazon Prime later in the year. Woody Allen is currently shooting his first television series for Amazon, starring Elaine May, Miley Cyrus and Allen himself.

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Rachel Crowe

The most notable lies Rachel Crowe has ever told were that she has 10 children (no twins), she’s running a marathon retracing the path her ancestors took to evade the IRS and that she found childcare for 10 on a Saturday night. She’s also a stand-up comedian and dog walker living in Los Angeles. Follow Rachel on Twitter @Racheddar or on Instagram @thelma_and_disease. Or don’t, but at least appreciate those fresh hot puns.