Friday July 14 – Thursday July 20

~ Sean Gilman

Featured Film:

Hermia and Helena at the Northwest Film Forum

The latest in Argentinean director Matías Piñeiro’s films inspired by Shakespeare takes A Midsummer Night’s Dream as its jumping off point. Camila (Agustina Muñoz) goes from Buenos Aires to New York as part of a special school program where she’ll work on translating the play. The Bard is less apparently central to the story than he was in Viola or The Princess of France, instead we track several of Camila’s relationships past and present; romantic, familial, and mysterious. Somewhat more conventional but no less affecting than those previous films, it was one of the highlights at last year’s Vancouver Film Festival.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Jagga Jasoos (Anurag Basu) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Central Cinema:

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) Fri-Weds Our Podcast Subtitled Tues & Weds
Red Sonja (Richard Fleische, 1985) Fri-Tues

Crest Cinema Center:

The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Egyptian:

The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Century Federal Way:

Channa Mereya (Pankaj Batra) Fri-Thurs

Grand Cinema:

The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) Sat Only
Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker & Gerald Scarfe, 1982) Sat Only
Sacred (Thomas Lennon) Tues Only
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

SCORE: A Film Music Documentary (Matt Schrader) Fri-Thurs
Lake Street Detective (Erik Hammen) Thurs Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Jagga Jasoos (Anurag Basu) Fri-Thurs
Shamantakamani (Venki) Fri-Thurs
Mom (Ravi Udyawar) Fri-Thurs
Ninnu Kori (Shiva Nirvana) Fri-Thurs
Muramba (Varun Narvekar) Sat Only
Chi Va Chi Sau Ka (Paresh Mokashi) Sun Only

Regal Meridian:

Jagga Jasoos (Anurag Basu) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro) Fri-Sun Our Review
Anna Karenina (Angelica Cholina) Sat Only
Like Crazy (Paolo Virzì) Weds-Sun
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984) Weds Only

AMC Pacific Place:

Our Time Will Come (Ann Hui) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Wu Kong (Derek Kwok) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Jagga Jasoos (Anurag Basu) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
The Journey (Nick Hamm) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (Irving Reis, 1947) Thurs Only

SIFF Film Center:

Glory (Petar Valchanov & Kristina Grozeva) Fri-Sun

SIFF Uptown:

Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
The Exception (David Leveaux) Fri-Sun
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Sun
48 Hour Film Project Mon-Weds
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial/Starship Troopers (Steven Spielberg, 1982/Paul Verhoeven, 1997) Thurs Only 35mm Double Feature

Varsity Theatre:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
New York Dog Film Festival Sun Only

In Wide Release:

The Beguiled (Sophia Coppola) Our Review
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review
Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott) Our Review

Published by Sean Gilman