Featured Film:
Elle at the Seven Gables
I can’t think of any better way to say farewell to 2016 than with Isabelle Huppert and Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, a singular film and the narrow winner in this year’s Seattle Film Poll, a good riddance to this disaster of a year if ever there was one. It’s not exactly a dark comedy, but neither is it a brutish nightmare of a rape-revenge film. I think it’s about the struggle to maintain control over one’s life, about not letting anything that happens to you define you. It leaves open the question of whether that striving for independence is ultimately dehumanizing or, paradoxically, what makes us human in the first place. No more challenging or upsetting film has been released this year.
Playing This Week:
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) Fri Only Sing-along
Titanic (James Cameron, 1991) Mon & Tues Only
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
The Eyes of My Mother (Nicolas Pesce) Fri-Sat Only
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (Lonny Price) Tues Only
By Sidney Lumet (Nancy Buirski) Fri-Thurs
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) Sun & Thurs Only 35mm
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Intlo Deyyam Nakem Bhayam (G. Nageswara Reddy) Fri-Thurs
Dangal (Nitesh Tiwari) Fri-Thurs
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Dangal (Nitesh Tiwari) Fri-Thurs
The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell) Fri-Thurs
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Dangal (Nitesh Tiwari) Fri-Thurs
Elle (Paul Verhoeven) Fri-Thurs
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri, Sun, Mon Quote-along
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Mon In Smell-O-Vision
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) Fri-Thurs
Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) Sat Only New Year’s Eve Party
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 