Featured Film:
The Forbidden Room at the Northwest Film Forum
One of the best films of the year opens this week at the Northwest Film Forum, Guy Maddin’s phantasmagoric ode to the weird and beautiful in cinema. A kaleidoscopic accordion of stories, about thirty different narratives, embedded within each other and branching across time, space, genre and logic, The Forbidden Room is without a doubt the most Guy Maddin film ever made, and probably his best too. We reported on it from Vancouver on The George Sanders Show, and Mike’s review is here.
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Playing This Week:
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) Fri-Tues
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1982) Fri-Weds
Victoria (Sebastian Schipper) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Throne (Lee Joon-ik) Fri-Thurs
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) Fri-Thurs
Peace Officer (Brad Barber & Scott Christopherson) Fri-Thurs
Run Free – The True Story of Caballo Blanco (Sterling Noren) Sun Only
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney) Tues Only
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974) Weds Only
Attack on Titan Part 2 (Shinji Higuchi) Weds & Thurs Only
The American Genre Film Archive and Something Weird Video present Smut Without Smut: The Mad Love Life of a Hot Vampire & The Haunted P***y (Ray Dennis Steckler, 1976 & Doris Wishman, 1971) Fri Only
A Nightmare On Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984) Sat & Mon Only 35mm
A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Jack Sholder, 1985) Sat & Tues Only 35mm
Rampaging Mutant 35mm Triple Feature Pizza Party Sun Only
Science Crazed (Ron Switzer, 1989) Weds Only
Valley of the Sasquatch and Creature from Black Lake (John Portanova, 2015 & Joy N. Houck Jr., 1976) Thurs Only Filmmaker in Attendance 35mm
Freeheld (Peter Sollett) Fri-Thurs
Freeheld (Peter Sollett) Fri-Thurs
Bruce Lee – The Fighter (Srinu Vaitla) Fri-Thurs
Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 (Luv Ranjan) Fri-Thurs
Rudrama Devi (Gunasekhar) Fri-Thurs
Back to the Future Triple Feature (Robert Zemeckis) Weds Only
Goodbye Mr. Loser (Yan Fei & Peng Damo) Fri-Thurs
Ladrones (Joe Menendez) Fri-Thurs
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (Guy Maddin) Sat Afternoon Only
Ben Gibbard in Conversation with Lynn Shelton about scoring Laggies Sat Only
Urgh! A Music War (Derek Burbidge, 1981) Sat Only 35mm
Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968) Sun Only
The Seattle South Asian Film Festival Mon & Tues Full Program
The Seattle Process with Brett Hamil Weds Only
Shredder Orpheus (Robert McGinley, 1989) Thurs Only
Freeheld (Peter Sollett) Fri-Thurs
Etiquette for Mistresses (Chito S. Roño) Fri-Thurs
Ladrones (Joe Menendez) Fri-Thurs
Scarecrow Video Screening Room:
Seattle Screen Scene 
