Friday’s openings redux: Three at the Lantern

As for the Magic Lantern Theater , its week of playing host to the 2020 Spokane International Film Festival is over. And the arthouse plans to open three new films on Friday.

The films are:

“Extra Ordinary” : Irish stand-up comic Maeve Higgins stars in this offbeat story about ghosts, exorcisms, music and comedy. Nice bit of blending, eh?

“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” : When a woman painter is contracted to paint the portrait of a reclusive woman about the be married, sparks fly all over the place. But who or what gets consumed?

“The Woman Who Loves Giraffes” : One of the hits of 2020 SpIFF , this documentary tells the story of Anne Innis Dagg, a Canadian woman whose field work in Africa on giraffes predated Jane Goodall’s work on chimpanzees.

That’s all for the moment. I’ll continue to update as needed.