Featured Film:
La La Land at the Pacific Place and the Lincoln Square
Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to his award-winning Whiplash is a musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and as of right now it looks like it’s probably going to win the Best Picture Oscar. It’s not the best picture of the year, of course, but it’s good enough. Stone plays a struggling actress and Gosling a struggling pianist and they fall in love and then part because of career difficulties, like someone took the plot of New York, New York, but drained it of all the darkness and passion. The film has drawn comparisons to Jacques Demy’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but the broken hearts here are more signified than felt (and anyway, the Demy it most resembles is Young Girls of Rochefort, at least in that the opening number is a pale imitation of that film’s glorious intro). Still, as Hollywood recreations of New Wave recreations of Classic Hollywood go, this isn’t bad, though I’m baffled why Stone and Gosling whisper-sing through the whole movie. Stone starred in Cabaret on Broadway, shouldn’t she be able to sing out every once in awhile? It opens this week at the AMC Pacific Place and the Cinemark Lincoln Square, and you can read our full review here.
Playing This Week:
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Tues
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Sun & Weds Only
The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell) Fri-Thurs
Ali and Nino (Asif Kapadia) Fri-Tues
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Sat Only
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Jalmari Helander, 2010) Sat Only
Deconstructing the Beatles: The White Album Tues Only
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Starts Weds
Miracle on 34th Street (Les Mayfield, 1947) Weds Only
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Thurs Only Sing-along
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs 35mm
The Brain (Ed Hunt, 1988) Fri Only VHS
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
La La Land (Damien Chazelle) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Nanna Nenu Naa Boyfriends (Bhaskar Bandi) Fri-Thurs
Dhruva (Surender Reddy) Fri-Thurs
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Sun & Weds Only
Oyster Factory (Kazuhiro Soda) Fri & Sat Only
The Eyes of My Mother (Nicolas Pesce) Fri-Sun Only
Sin Alas (Ben Chace) Fri-Sun Only
The Eyes of the Totem (WS Van Dyke, 1927) Sun Only
La La Land (Damien Chazelle) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Wasted Times (Cheng Er) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Befikre (Aditya Chopra) Fri-Thurs
The Super Parental Guardians (Joyce E. Bernal) Fri-Thurs
Dear Zindagi (Gauri Shinde) Fri-Thurs
The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell) Fri-Thurs
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Sun Quote-along
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Thurs In Smell-O-Vision
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Weds & Thurs Only Sing-along
Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
The Hollow Point (Gonzalo López-Gallego) Fri-Thurs
Solace (Afonso Poyart) Fri-Thurs
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 