MICHAEL SWAN: BATTLE IN SEATTLE >>>

In what I thought might be a documentary of me trying to park at Neumos on Capitol Hill, Battle in Seattle is actually creative canoodler Stuart Townsend's dramatization of the WTO riots of 1999, submitting a portrait of a well-intended protest that was undone by anarchist forces with little more than chaos on their minds.

Gosh … when I hear myself say it in my head, that sounds like such a bad thing.

The Grand Cinema will screen Battle in Seattle beginning Friday, Oct. 24.

Here my next parking battle.

[The Grand Cinema, Friday, Oct. 24: (2:25), (4:40), 7:00, 9:15; Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 25-26: (12:15), (2:25), 4:40 (discussion follows), 7:00, 9:15; Monday-Thursday, Oct. 27-30: (2:25), (4:40), 7:00, 9:15, $4.50-$8, 606 Fawcett Ave., Tacoma, 253.593.4474]