Featured Film:
Zodiac on 35mm at the Seattle Art Museum
Bringing the Seattle Art Museum’s 38th Film Noir series to an end this week is David Fincher’s paranoid procedural Zodiac, from 2007. Like all the films in the series, this one is presented on 35mm film, an ever-increasing rarity on Seattle Screens, especially for so recent a film. Zodiac stars Robert Downey Jr, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Mark Ruffalo as reporters and investigators who become increasingly obsessed with a serial killer who sends cryptic clues and terrorizes the Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Fincher and his collaborators make meticulous use of digital effects to recreate the environments of the era, but most palpable is the sense of dread, the fear that solving the crime will ultimately prove an impossibility. The darkest truth of any in film noir: that evil is truly incomprehensible.
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Playing This Week:
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953) Fri-Tues
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Fri-Tues
Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs
Teton Gravity Research: The Sammy C Project Weds Only
Mukhtiar Chadha (Gifty) Fri-Thurs
Judge Singh LLB (Atharv Baluja) Fri-Thurs
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Check, 1989) Sun & Weds Only
Bikes vs. Cars (Fredrik Gertten) Tues Only
Calling My Children (David Binder) Thurs Only
Taxi (Jafar Panahi) Fri, Sat, Mon, Weds, Thurs
Bikes vs. Cars (Fredrik Gertten) Fri-Thurs
EXcinema presents The Spaces Between Cities (Various) Tues Only
Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Tues
Shankarabaranum (Kona Venkat) Fri-Thurs
Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Fall in Love Like a Star (Tony Chan) Fri-Thurs
Paul Taylor: Creative Domain (Kate Geiss) Fri-Sun
Xenia (Panos H. Koutras) Fri-Sun
God Bless the Child (Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck) Fri Only
Next Dance Cinema (Various) Mon Only
Phoebe’s Father (John Helde) Tues Only
Tyler Oakley’s Snervous Thurs-Sun
Our Times (Frankie Chen) Fri-Thurs
She Remembers, He Forgets (Adam Wong) Fri-Thurs
Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) Weds Only
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Sooraj Barjatya) Fri-Thurs
Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Scarecrow Video Screening Room:
WNUF Halloween Special (Chris LaMartina, Shawn Jones, James Branscome, 2013) Fri Only
The House of Yes (Mark Waters, 1997) Sat Only
A Year without Santa Claus (Rankin/Bass, 1974) Sun Only
The Long Kiss Goodnight (Renny Harlin, 1996) Sun Only
Carol for Another Christmas (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1964) Mon Only
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, 1953) Tues Only
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) Weds Only
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005) Thurs Only
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) Thurs Only 35mm
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Sun Smell-o-Vision
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Sun Quote-Along
Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs
Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) Weds Only
Life (Anton Corbijn) Fri-Thurs
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) Fri-Sun
Janis: Little Girl Blue (Amy Berg) Fri-Thurs
East Side Sushi (Anthony Lucero) Fri-Thurs
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 
