Featured Film:
It’s a Wonderful Life at the Grand Illusion
This Christmas a venerable Seattle tradition continues as the Grand Illusion plays, on 35 millimeter film, Frank Capra’s greatest film, the grim, bleak, heart-warming holiday classic from 1946. James Stewart plays a suicidal banker reliving the agonies of his small town, small-time life of thwarted dreams with the help of a bumbling guardian angel. Donna Reed plays the gorgeous girl next door for whom he lassos not the moon but a mortgage and a passel of toothless moochers. As densely-packed with post-war anxiety and shadowy fears as any film noir, it’s desperately cheerful.
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Playing This Week:
Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Tues
The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper) Fri-Thurs
Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) Sun & Weds Only
Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Jalmari Helander, 2010) Sat Only
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Tues Only Sing-along
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs 35mm
VHS Uber Alles presents Droid (Peter Williams, 1988) Fri Only VHS
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs
Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Tues
Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Tues
The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper) Fri-Thurs
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs
Joyeuses Fetes!: A Children’s Film Festival Seattle Preview Sat Only
Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Mojin: The Lost Legend (Wu Ershan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Surprise (Show Joy) Fri-Thurs
He Never Died (Jason Krawczyk) Fri-Thurs
Anguish (Sonny Mallhi) Fri-Thurs
Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) Sun & Weds Only
Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs
Scarecrow Video Screening Room:
Reindeer Games (John Frankenheimer, 2000) Fri Only
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (Lee Harry, 1987) Sat Only
The Stingiest Man in Town (Rankin-Bass, 1978) Sun Only
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Nicholas Webster, 1964) Mon Only
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956) Tues Only
Scrooged (Richard Donner, 1988) Weds Only
Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Thurs Smell-o-Vision
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Thurs Quote-Along
Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) Sun & Weds Only
Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs
Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Janis: Little Girl Blue (Amy Berg) Fri-Tues
The Big Short (Adam McKay) Starts Tues
Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) Sun & Weds Only
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 
