Featured Film:
Paterson at the Regal Meridian
Jim Jarmsuch’s best movie in more than twenty years, and probably the best movie of 2016 (at least, that’s what I’ll say right now), stars Adam Driver as a poet named Paterson, who lives and drives a bus in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, which was itself the subject of an epic poem by William Carlos Williams called Paterson. Jarmusch deftly tracks a week in Paterson’s life: the habitual necessities and routines, and the small spaces within them that he carves out for writing (think Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems). Small details accrete: the job, the dog, the regulars at the neighborhood bar, and an infinite, livable world is created. Rarely has a film so elegantly captured creative work as process, as an integral part of everyday life. When Driver reads Paterson’s poems, he doesn’t recite them, the words in voiceover come with the halting, tentative speed of composition. Neil reviewed the film for us last fall at VIFF, and Ryan wrote about it this week.
Playing This Week:
Ok Jaanu (Shaad Ali) Fri-Thurs
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) Fri-Tues
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982) Fri-Tues
Khaidi No. 150 (V. V. Vinayak) Fri-Thurs
Sarvann (Karaan Guliani) Fri-Thurs
Master (Cho Uiseok) Fri-Thurs
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) Sun & Weds Only
One Piece Film: Gold (Hiroaki Miyamoto) Tues Only
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice (Deborah Riley Draper) Tues Only
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Weds Only
Elle (Paul Verhoeven) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Mifune: The Last Samurai (Steven Okazaki) Sat & Sun Only
Saturday Secret Matinees: Presented by the Sprocket Society (Various directors & years) Sat Only 16mm
Up, Up and Away (Andy Liotta) Thurs Only
One Piece Film: Gold (Hiroaki Miyamoto) Sat & Tues Only
Khaidi No. 150 (V. V. Vinayak) Fri-Thurs
Dangal (Nitesh Tiwari) Fri-Thurs
Bairavaa (Bharathan) Fri-Thurs
Gautamiputra Satakarni (Krish) Fri-Thurs
Ok Jaanu (Shaad Ali) Fri-Thurs
Shatamanam Bhavati (Satish Vegesna) Fri-Thurs
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) Sun & Weds Only
One Piece Film: Gold (Hiroaki Miyamoto) Tues Only
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) Sun & Weds Only
Il Solengo (Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis) Fri & Sat Only
Notes on Blindness (Peter Middleton & James Spinney) Fri-Sun Only
The Road to Nickelsville (Derek McNeill) Sun Only Filmmaker in Attendance
Goodnight Brooklyn – The Story of Death by Audio (Matthew Conboy) Starts Weds
Some Like it Hot (Song Xiaofei and Dong Xu) Fri-Thurs
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) Sun & Weds Only
One Piece Film: Gold (Hiroaki Miyamoto) Tues Only
Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Elle (Paul Verhoeven) Fri-Thurs
Sarvann (Karaan Guliani) Fri-Thurs
Ok Jaanu (Shaad Ali) Fri-Thurs
Shatamanam Bhavati (Satish Vegesna) Fri-Thurs
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Dangal (Nitesh Tiwari) Fri-Thurs
Europa ’51 (Roberto Rossellini, 1952) Thurs Only
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Nordic Lights Film Festival Fri-Mon Full Program
You Will Be My Son (Gilles LeGrand) Weds Only Pastries and Wine
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) Fri-Thurs
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) Fri-Thurs
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) Weds Only
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 