Featured Film:

Ugetsu at the Northwest Film Forum

There are some fine new movies this week, led by João Pedro Rodrigues’s The Ornithologist at the Film Forum and the new Imtiaz Ali film, Jab Harry Met Sejal, playing at a handful of area theatres, along with some excellent repertory films: They Live at the Ark Lodge, Do the Right Thing (what a great choice for the hottest week of the year) at the Central Cinemas, the late George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead at the Grand, and Howard Hawks’s Monkey Business, the penultimate film in SAM’s Cary Grant series. But it’s been awhile since Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu played here, and the NWFF has it this weekend in a new restoration. It’s a ghost story about two doomed men and the women who ultimately pay the price for their ambition. It’s the best movie by one of the greatest filmmakers ever.

Playing This Week:

Admiral Theatre:

NY Dog Film Festival Sun Only

AMC Alderwood:

Battleship Island (Ryoo Seung-wan) Fri-Thurs
Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988) Thurs Only

Central Cinema:

Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) Fri-Mon
The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) Fri-Mon
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) Tues & Weds Only

Century Federal Way:

Vekh Barataan Chaliyaan (Ksshitij Chaudhary) Fri-Thurs
Toofan Singh (Baghal Singh) Fri-Thurs
Battleship Island (Ryoo Seung-wan) Fri-Thurs
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, 1968) Sat Only
Food Evolution (Scott Hamilton Kennedy) Tues Only
Deconstructing the Beatles: Revolver (Scott Freiman) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Untamed (Amat Escalante) Fri-Thurs
Endless Poetry (Alejandro Jodorowsky) Mon-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
Fidaa (Sekhar Kammula) Fri-Thurs
Mubarakan (Anees Bazmee) Fri-Thurs
Vikram Vedha (Pushkar and Gayathri) Fri-Thurs
Nakshatram (Krishna Vamsi) Fri-Thurs
Darsakadu (Jakka Hariprasad) Fri-Thurs In Telgu with No Subtitles
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues) Fri-Sun Our Review
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) Fri- Sun
The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz) Weds & Thurs Only
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk (Corbett Reford) Weds Only
Bless Their Little Hearts (Billy Woodberry, 1984) Thurs & Sat Only

AMC Pacific Place:

Wolf Warrior 2 (Wu Jing) Fri-Thurs
The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) Fri Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Finally Found Someone (Theodore Boborol) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

Landline (Gillian Robespierre) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
Some Freaks (Ian MacAllister McDonald) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Monkey Business (Howard Hawks, 1952) Thurs Only

SIFF Film Center:

The Skyjacker’s Tale (Jamie Kastner) Fri-Sun
Business in the Black (Anthony Brogdon) Thurs Only

AMC Southcenter:

An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) Fri-Thurs

Regal Thornton Place:

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Uptown:

Landline (Gillian Robespierre) Starts Thurs Our Review
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd) Fri-Mon, Weds-Thurs
The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Fri-Mon, Weds Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade/Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1989/1993) Thurs Only 35mm(?) Double Feature

Varsity Theatre:

Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
Fun Mom Dinner (Alethea Jones) Fri-Thurs
Brave New Jersey (Jody Lambert) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

Baby Driver (Edgar Wrighht) Our Review