Featured Film:
HyperNormalization at the Northwest Film Forum
There are a lot of highlights this week on Seattle Screens, from new releases (James Gray’s The Lost City of Z, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation), continuing runs (Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name.) and the next films in retrospectives on Yasujiro Ozu, David Lynch and Douglas Sirk (Good Morning, Blue Velvet & Dune and Imitation of Life, respectively), as well as the start of the Cinerama’s big Anime Festival. But if I had to see one movie this week, it would be the Northwest Film Forum’s free screening on Saturday of Adam Curtis’s HyperNormalization. Curtis is a documentarian for the BBC, and if you’re familiar with his work, this new one won’t be anything new. It’s rather another facet in his continuing argument that our modern world is the result of elite fear, a reaction to the instability of the post-industrial world, defined by corporate and governmental desires for stability and commodification. The story this time traces the careers of Muammar Gaddafi and Donald Trump, with sidelines on Russian manipulation of media and the deadening effect of the internet and social media (Our Fake World) on movements for social change. It’s three hours of horror, humor and Brian Eno, and, flawed or incomplete as Curtis’s argument may be, it explains our present moment as well as anything else I’ve seen.
Playing This Week:
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Kedi (Ceyda Torun) Fri-Tues
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992) Fri-Mon Subtitled Sun & Mon Only
Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker, 1980) Fri-Tues
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013) Tues Only Subtitled
Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon & Shôgo Furuya, 2003) Tues Only Subtitled
Wolf Children (Momoru Hosada, 2012) Weds Only Subtitled
Summer Wars (Momoru Hosada, 2009) Weds Only Subtitled
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Fri-Thurs
Manje Bistre (Baljit Singh Deo) Fri-Thurs
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Fri-Thurs
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) Sun & Weds Only
Trainspotting 2 (Danny Boyle) Fri-Thurs
Tommy’s Honour (Jason Connery) Fri-Thurs
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996) Fri Only
The Void (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski) Sat Only
Sonita (Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami) Sun Only
Ayanda (Sara Blecher) Mon Only
Tanna (Martin Butler & Bentley Dean) Tues Only
The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer) Weds Only
The Void (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski) Sat, Weds & Thurs Only
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (David Fairhead) Sun & Mon Only
Who’s Crazy? (Thomas White, 1966) Fri-Thurs
Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled or Dubbed in English, Check Listings
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Fri-Thurs
Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled
Noor (Sunhil Sippy) Fri-Thurs
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) Sun & Weds Only
Trainspotting 2 (Danny Boyle) Fri-Thurs
Tommy’s Honour (Jason Connery) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Alive and Kicking (Susan Glatzer) Fri & Sat Only
HyperNormalization (Adam Curtis) Sat Only Free
Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production (Briar Levit) Weds Only
Selected Silent Shorts (Various) Mon Only
Trainspotting 2 (Danny Boyle) Fri-Thurs
Can’t Help Falling in Love (Mae Czarina Cruz-Alviar) Fri-Thurs
Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu, 1958) Thurs Only 35mm
Graduation (Cristian Mungiu) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) Fri & Sat Only
Dune (David Lynch, 1984) Sat & Sun Only 35mm
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959) Tues Only 35mm
Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled Only
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled Only
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (Dash Shaw) Fri-Thurs
Queen of the Desert (Werner Herzog, 2015) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) Weds Only
In Wide Release:
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